LAS CRUCES – What started out as a 10-year business plan has turned into nearly three decades of fulfilling the smoky desires of Las Cruces tobacco aficionados. Lucas Catoggio opened Lucas Pipe and ...

Pipes shedding stodgy image after decades of decline. Handsome hand made pipes by Richard Lewis, a Minneapolis pipe maker and seller. Courtesy George Lewis — -- Pipe smoking had long gone the way ...

A complex web of economic forces heavily influenced by divergent state tax policies across the United States sustains the traditional cigarette industry’s dominance despite the rise of reduced-risk ...

A 2009 law that raised federal taxes on tobacco products to discourage smoking triggered a market shift to pipe tobacco and large cigars, costing the U.S. Treasury billions in lost revenue, according ...

Republican congressman Darrell Issa of San Diego County and Democrat Don Davis of North Carolina have introduced the Hookah Clarification Act of 2024 to equally tax hookah waterpipe tobacco and ...

Memo to Congress: Yes, you can influence behavior with taxes, but not always the way you intended. A more than 2,000% increase in the federal tax on roll-your-own tobacco and small cigars has led ...

Read full article: ‘Just hold in there’: UNF students extend support to FSU after tragedy JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – It's marketed as pipe tobacco, but some smokers are using it to roll their own cigarettes ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- Altadis USA is selling its pipe tobacco division in order to focus on its core cigarette and cigar businesses. Mac Baren Tobacco Co., a 125-year-old pipe tobacco company based in ...

The great thing about tobacco pipes, according to Julie Schablitsky, is that they are hard to not find. They were ubiquitous in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries—to the point, she says, that ...