Last year, the U.S. government banned "flavored" cigarettes. Since then, the real fight has raged on: whether to ban menthol cigarettes as well. The end of Newports? Can you imagine? The company that makes Newports says: that's racist!

A federal judge has ruled that New York's gruesome anti-smoking ads — featuring rotted teeth and organs — can't be forced into stores, siding with three tobacco companies who filed a lawsuit against the NY Board of Health. Smoke away!

In this 1951 Disney cartoon, the fifties-everyman version of Goofy sets about on a quest to stop smoking cigarettes, but it's not so simple. Enough time without his smokes leaves the Goof begging for anything to puff on, including weed!

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs hasn't "seen or witnessed evidence of any smoking" on Barack Obama's part "in probably nine months."

In America, cigarette packs will soon come with graphic health warnings. That's nothing. In Europe, they already have those health warnings; and now, they want to totally ban branded cigarette packaging. But what about the tragic destruction of coolness?

Ah, good ol' days of television! Remember when cartoon characters were fine examples and wholesome do-gooders... who also loved their tobacco? Watch the clip for the legitimate Flintstones Winston cigarette ad.

Today in Uruguay delegates from the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control recommended placing a restriction, or possibly a ban, on flavored cigarettes that are super fun to smoke! Tobacco lobbyists are worried about job losses. We all lose.

Meet Ilham Anas. He looks so much like Barack Obama, he's become a TV star in his native Indonesia and fears assassination. Time interviewed him and showed Ilham in his natural state: smoking cigarettes and using a Muslim prayer rug.

Under a law signed by President Obama last June, all cigarette packs sold in the U.S. must have anti-smoking messages covering 50% of the front of the package starting next year. Here's what the FDA is proposing.

Cigarette companies in Indonesia have a captive audience near Mount Merapi. Employees from Sampoerna, one of Indonesia's largest tobacco companies, are helping out volcano victims while also taking advantage of a great marketing opportunity: wearing logo-emblazoned gear and saving people!

USA Today has identified what could be the next big thing in air travel: allowing onboard "E-cigarettes," so smokers can puff away naturally on their chemical-filled plastic tubes without disturbing their fellow passengers. How'd this soon-to-be-everywhere trend get started?

Heavy smoking during middle age greatly increases your risk of Alzheimer's disease. And your dirtbag factor.

Charlie, a South African chimpanzee famous for smoking cigarettes while being an ape, has died at age 52, having lived ten years longer than the average chimp despite his tobacco habit. That doesn't mean smoking is good for you, however.

The 33 trapped Chilean miners have finally caught a break. The Health Ministry has decided it will send two packs of cigarettes a day down to them after realizing that nicotine patches and gum are no substitute for a smoke.

For now. Indonesia's world-famous cigarette-smoking two-year-old has quit cigs after undergoing therapy. Though there is concern that he will pick up the habit again once he returns home and the everyday stress of baby life wears at him once more.

Man, being trapped in a cramped mine is not the time to quit smoking or drinking. But NASA officials, who are advising the effort to rescue the 33 trapped Chilean miners, have denied their request for wine and cigarettes.

Since the gubmint came and taxed the hell out of everything from clove cigarettes to E-cigarettes, the last reasonable refuge for a gentleman who enjoys soothing nicotine is to roll his own cigs out of barely-taxed "pipe tobacco." Wait—revenuers!

The war on smoking is without end: they've already come for your clove cigarettes, and your flavored cigarettes, and your light cigarettes. Now, they're coming for your "e-cigarettes." Jesus, pretty soon we'll all be forced to smoke...cigarettes. [WSJ]

The NYC war on smoking's latest front: construction sites. What about workers' right to danger?