Cigarette makers ordered to display warning signs at retailers

Altria’s Marlboro cigarettes sold at a store. Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Major cigarette companies will soon be required to post signs at retail locations warning of the health effe...

Steve Forbes Slams Proposed Menthol Cigarette Rules

The Food & Drug Administration is proposing rules to prohibit menthol cigarettes and flavored cigars. This episode of What’s Ahead lays out why the move is utterly misbegotten. Well over one-third...

Altria’s Cigarette Addiction Is Becoming Unhealthier

For years tobacco companies have been fighting regulators more than each other. That might be about to change, and Altria MO -0.61% in particular needs a game plan. If Philip Morris International’s PM...

Rising oil prices could hit cigarette demand

A pack of Marlboro cigarettes. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Rising prices at the gas pump will likely hurt cigarette demand as smokers have less cash to spend on impulse purchases while fil...