The Food and Drug Administration appears likely to move to ban menthol in cigarettes this week — a step, experts say, that has been years in the making and that could have a significant positive ...

Cigarettes contain hundreds of chemical additives to preserve flavor and enhance nicotine absorption. Many of these chemicals can cause cancer. Nicotine and tobacco are the primary ingredients most ...

The idea seems simple enough. Preserve all the rituals of smoking: Light up a cigarette, inhale the smoke, including the nasty stuff that can kill you, and exhale. But remove most of the nicotine, the ...

Tucked between the new high-speed cigarette-makers and pack-loaders in Philip Morris USA's giant South Richmond plant, there now are lots of head-high, Plexiglas-walled boxes. Inside, robot-arms load ...