tobacco products

Regulations should keep e-cigarettes cheaper and more convenient than conventional cigarettes, but still expensive and inconvenient enough to deter a new generation of nicotine addicts. Banning e-cigarette use inside public buildings would be a great step toward achieving this.

A three-fold increase in Maryland's tax on smokeless tobacco is needed to protect the next generation from the threat of oral cancer

Anne Arundel hospital plans to stop hiring people who use tobacco products

Henson says he opposes group's plan to raise the cigarette tax

Effort to raise Maryland tobacco tax shows an insatiable appetite not only for taxes but to control behavior of others

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler has written a letter to 10 Maryland e-cigarette manufacturers questioning what the companies are doing to prevent sales to underage youth.

Without federal, state or local regulations, vaping rules are in flux

Baltimore County Executive Kevin Kamenetz announced Tuesday morning that he is proposing a mandated closing time for Baltimore County's hookah lounges.

A group of 28 U.S. attorneys general is urging chief executive officers of five major retailers, including Walmart, to stop selling tobacco products.

Danger of energy drinks to youngsters is not to be taken lightly

U.S. agency stops sale of certain types of cigarette, using new authority

A cancer survivor's appeal

The new surgeon general's report on smoking makes it clear that lawmakers in Annapolis and elsewhere need to do more to prevent teens from using tobacco.

Vapor shops are popping up fast — locally and nationwide — as more smokers turn to electronic cigarettes. It's a trend that gives some health professionals pause because they can't say definitively whether "vaping" is a safe or effective method of kicking the smoking habit.

A family crime organization trafficked more than $6.6 million in black market cigarettes and more in illegal foreign drugs through a Baltimore restaurant and a Pikesville pharmacy that received a Baltimore County-backed loan, authorities said in a federal indictment that was unsealed Wednesday.

Today, with nearly five times as many lounges peddling a relaxing experience around a water-filled flavored tobacco pipe — including many that allow patrons to bring in their own alcohol — legislators in Baltimore County are looking for a way to regulate hookah lounges and gain control over what County Councilman Todd Huff described as "a community menace."

Having found that menthol cigarettes pose an increased public health risk, the FDA should move to ban them

The FDA finally takes on the tobacco industry over the health risks posed by cigarettes

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The Palestinian immigrant and his brother lived side-by-side in homes in West Ocean City, over the years opening a number of businesses throughout the area — three pizza shops, a Mexican restaurant, a liquor store, gas stations, and development companies, court records show.

Thousands of fifth-graders around Harford County have pledged never to try tobacco by signing their names on banners that will be exhibited on National Kick Butts Day March 20

Baltimore's low fire death total for 2012 should be a call to further action.

No one really knows why the crucial Atlantic Coast fish is declining

Maryland's cigarette tax has saved lives and raising it another dollar would save more

A tax on small cigars and other tobacco products popular with teenagers has resulted in a bump in the prices of these products just as health advocates had hoped.

A Johns Hopkins study finds that black youth see more advertisements for liquor.

If the FDA can't require graphic warnings on cigarettes, it's the public that suffers for the sake of big tobacco profits

Long-time downward trend in cigarette use threatened by other tobacco use

Congress should follow Maryland's example and raise cigarette tax to reduce health care costs, improve health and save lives

Flavored cigarillos favored by teens will cost nearly double

The Community College of Baltimore County will follow join several area schools in banning the use of tobacco products on July 1.

Maryland's choice to raise the tax on little cigars and smokeless tobacco will be a life-saver

It took three carefully scripted days, but Maryland's ruling Democrats finally put in place the budget deal that eluded them in the waning hours of the state's regular session last month.

Fracking: Gas companies need to come clean about health risks

The legislature shouldn't forget the taxes on cigars and smokeless tobacco if it comes back in a special session.

Changing the judicial procedure by which the State Center case will be heard is unusual but not unprecedented; the legislature's action does not tip the scales to one side or the other in the court case.

Ban the sale of flavored cigars that target underage smokers

DeMarco grateful for Senate action but wants more

Don't be fooled by those who claim smokeless tobacco is not dangerous

All tobacco is not equally harmful to human health and taxes should reflect that reality

For the sake of public health, Maryland ought to tax cigars, snuff and other forms of tobacco at a rate comparable to the state's tax on cigarettes

States not doing enough to prevent tobacco-related disease

Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative head Vinnie DeMarco says an increase in the cigar and smokeless tobacco tax would combat an emerging public health problem among teens.

Harford County government says it plans to impose a complete smoking ban on its properties, though it isn't clear how many actually will be affected.

Maryland starts campaign to curb use of cigars they say targets kids

The Maryland Citizens' Health Initiative has launched a campaign to raise taxes on all tobacco products in Maryland. Cigarette prices would increase by $1 per pack, and other tobacco taxes would increase at a corresponding rate. But at least one tobacco lobbyist disagrees with the proposal.

Proposal seeks to raise cigarette tax to $3, among the top in the U.S.