smoking

Come on, Lafayette: we are better than this!

Cigarette smokers the price of your smokes is going up by .22 cents per pack on Friday when a new state tax takes effect.

Could it be the solution to the problem may be just as harmful as the problem it was supposed to solve? A new study is out concerning e-cigarettes and their use.

When you see the amount of money that tobacco companies spend promoting their product versus the amount of money our state spends in education, it's a wonder we aren't all riding Joe Camel to work like the Marlboro Man.

Beginning today smokers will be paying an additional .50cents per pack for cigarettes as a new tax increase goes into effect.

The New Orleans smoking ban made national headlines. Could Lafayette be next?

At the meeting, the councilman plans to give information about how the process to make bars smoke free is coming along and what they might look to do in the future.

Even though UL is attempting to establish a tobacco-free campus, there are a few exceptions.

A major company is taking a significant stand against smoking and the move is being applauded by the president.

JENNINGS, La. (AP) — Smoking around the courthouse and wearing sagging pants could soon become a thing of the past if the Jefferson Davis Parish Police Jury enacts measures to ban them both.

A Turkish man has come up with a unique way to curb his smoking habit and it comes in the form of an Anti-Smoking Cage Helmet!!!

Ruh roh. Miley Cyrus was spotted smoking something hand-rolled in Miami. Sorry, but this doesn't look like she is indulging a nicotine fix, either.

No matter what you have heard lately smoking marijuana is illegal in the United States, even if you don't get caught.  I used to think it was only the big time celebrities who could really get away with a little 'puff puff pass,' but it looks like a couple of mothers are jumping on the train.

A pop star’s money maker is his or her voice. Especially the ones who can really sing, like Adele or Bruno Mars. Adele’s smoking habit is well-publicized, and she had to give it up, begrudgingly, to save her voice. Now, Mars is the latest pop star to be photographed smoking, which should be a no-no, considering the havoc it can wreak on the vocal cords. Tsk, tsk.

In a 29-page decision on Monday, US District Judge Richard J. Leon blocked the implementation of a law on graphic cigarette photos. It would’ve required tobacco companies to include explicit photos detailing the dangers of smoking on cigarette packages. The 36 images proposed by the Food and Drug Administration include a picture of diseased lungs next to healthy lungs, a man exhaling smoke through