It is important to note that while smoking rates overall have been slowly declining, the rise of e-cigarettes and vaping products represents a new and troubling challenge. The use of e-cigarettes ...

State Rep. Elizabeth Rowray has introduced legislation that would double the state’s cigarette tax. Rowray’s legislation would raise the tax by $1 per pack. Representatives of two smoking cessation ...

“This highlights how profoundly difficult it can be to break the smoking addiction.” Most adult cigarette smokers want to stop, and many can and do quit for good: since 2002 there have been ...

Elizabeth Hicks with the Consumer Choice Center said the assault on vaping may push some Illinoisans back to regular combustible cigarettes ... Medicaid costs for smoking-related illnesses ...