House Bill 58 would increase the state wholesale tax in cigarettes from the current three cents per cigarette for five and two-tenths cents. That would raise the state tax on a pack of cigarettes from the current 60 cents to $1.04.
The Wyoming Quit Tobacco Program is offering a new option to help smokers kick the habit.
A free three-month Chantix prescription is being offered to Wyoming residents who enroll in the program by June 30.
"We've offered financial support for Chantix for quite some time, but here for awhile we're going to offer that prescription cost for free," said Wyoming Department of Health Spokeswom
New year’s resolutions often go by the wayside by the second week of the year — at least for most people. But ‘From a Table Away’ hitmaker Sunny Sweeney wasn’t going to start her 2012 with a bad habit. The blonde country starlet announced via her Facebook and Twitter pages that she has officially quit smoking.
It wasn’t that long ago that smoking was as synonymous with bars as alcohol and questionable decisions. However, over the last decade, more and more states and local government are banning cigarettes from saloons.
A new study published in the November issue of the Journal of Studies on Alcohol and Drugs may have found a potential link between older adults, financial woes, and alcohol and tobacco usage.
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
Scientists in San Diego are developing new vaccines that will potentially cure addictions, allowing cigarette and drug abusers to kick their habits with a simple injection.
Dr. Kim D. Janda, a Scripps Research Institute professor, is one of the leading experts, having made addiction vaccines his main priority for the past 25 years. “We view this as an alternative or better way for some people,” he
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Listen, I had a two pack a day habit for a loooooong time. If I could, I'd spark up right this minute. But I can't. Now it seems Gretchen Wilson has come to the same conclusion.