22nd Century Group, the Clarence-based cigarette company, has won permission from federal tobacco regulators to start making its own cigarettes. The company has been granted a permit to produce ...

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 ...

Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars’ vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants. Driven largely by ever-rising tobacco prices, ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should extend the ban on menthol flavored cigarettes and cigars to include potential substitutes like menthol pipe tobacco and cigarette tubes, say ...