Santa Cruz County to implement ban on filtered cigarettes in 2027
California's Santa Cruz County announced that sales on filtered cigarettes will be banned in 2027, which officials say is the first ban of its kind.
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California's Santa Cruz County announced that sales on filtered cigarettes will be banned in 2027, which officials say is the first ban of its kind.
Semaglutide, the active ingredient in drugs like Wegovy and Ozempic, can help people lose weight — and a new study says it may also help people quit smoking.
The White House had been due to decide on the menthol cigarette rule in March.
Police in Oakland have arrested eight suspects connected to recent armed robberies involving tobacco products, following a robbery of a delivery driver in the Oakland Hills early Tuesday morning.
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Police in the East Bay arrested three people and recovered $10,000 in cigarettes following a convenience store robbery and pursuit late Monday night.
San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said Wednesday the city is suing three online tobacco retailers for unlawfully selling flavored tobacco products and electronic cigarettes to consumers in San Francisco.
The American Cancer Society has updated its lung cancer screening guidelines to include more adults. Dr. Timothy Tiutan, an oncology hospitalist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, joins CBS News to discuss what prompted the update.
Around 16% of respondents said they currently smoke marijuana, while nearly half have tried it at some point in their lifetime.
A carelessly discarded cigarette tossed from vehicle on Highway 101 was the likely source of a firestorm that roared through a Petaluma neighborhood, authorities announced Thursday.
Plaintiffs says the company behind American Spirit is misleading smokers into believing their products are healthier than other tobacco products by using words like 'additive free.'
A bill to raise California's cigarette tax by $2 per pack was introduced Wednesday in the state Senate, a hike that supporters say would curb smoking deaths and critics argue would place an unnecessary burden on consumers and small businesses.
A transient was arrested Monday for allegedly starting a small fire that burned forest land in Big Sur in March.
An El Sobrante man was arrested at a Safeway in El Cerrito over the weekend after allegedly reading a pornographic magazine while accompanied by a small child in the women's restroom, smoking a cocaine-laced joint and stealing a soda, police said Tuesday.
An elderly woman was critically injured in a fire apparently caused by a cigarette at her home in Hayward on Thursday night, a fire department spokesman said Friday.
Firefighters extinguished a two-alarm fire at an apartment building in San Jose early Tuesday morning, a fire captain said.
A fire in a house that killed a Vacaville woman Monday was unintentional and most likely caused by a lit cigarette, Vacaville police said.
Three men were robbed at gunpoint and one was burned with a cigarette at a park in San Francisco's Pacific Heights neighborhood on Tuesday night, police said.
A fire in a 6-storey apartment building that injured one resident and a firefighter in San Francisco Sunday morning was probably caused by a cigarette dropped into a lightwell, fire officials said.
A 73-year-old man was critically injured in an apartment fire in Antioch early Friday morning, Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials said.
A San Francisco judge has upheld the city's 20-cent-per-pack surcharge on cigarettes.
