Remember those anti-smoking commercials that used to air on MTV — the ones where an old woman would speak at you with an unsettling croak, or a teenager would have to peel off and give a chunk of her ...

Smoking already seemed to be making a comeback in pop culture. Now, with President Donald Trump's administration gutting the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and ...

“Sure, cigarettes are bad for you but they make you look good.” That’s the sentiment driving smoking’s recent surge in popularity, said The New York Times. Modern culture has re-romanticised the ...

"It comes down to a kind of healthy degree of nihilism," Jared Oviatt of the Instagram account @cigfluencers told Newsweek.

Gen Z — largely comprised of middle- and high-school students — reported the lowest smoking rates on record in 2024, according to CDC and FDA data, but that trend may be in jeopardy. “Overall, the ...

Gen Z — largely comprised of middle- and high-school students — reported the lowest smoking rates on record in 2024, according to CDC and FDA data, but that trend may be in jeopardy. "Overall, the ...