Florida law currently prohibits smoking tobacco and vaping in enclosed indoor workplaces, with some exceptions. A new bill, HB 389, proposes to ban smoking and vaping in nearly all public places, ...

A jury awarded damages of $850,000 to the estate of a man who died from laryngeal cancer, which was allegedly caused by cigarette smoking. After calculating the jury's comparative-fault findings, the ...

Florida is failing its citizens in reducing the harms of tobacco products, according to the American Lung Association's 22nd annual State of Tobacco report. Overall, it’s Black Floridians who ...

9 Investigates has an update on the vaping problem in Florida schools. Investigative reporter Karla Ray first reported that the number of students disciplined for tobacco use in Florida schools nearly ...

Florida is lacking in tobacco control and efforts to prevent smoking and received failing grades in its efforts to do so according to the annual report by the American Lung Association. "With the 2023 ...

A Florida jury handed Scott Schlesinger every plaintiff lawyer’s dream earlier this month when it ordered R.J. Reynolds to pay his clients $37.5 million for the death of smoker Laura Grossman from ...

The use of tobacco products among Florida’s youth is at an all-time low, but that good news is offset by significant increases in the number of children who vape, a state advisory panel was told ...

TALLAHASSEE | It was February 2009, and things were looking good for the tobacco industry. "There are an estimated 60 million adult consumers participating in the total tobacco space in the United ...

State parks are our havens of natural beauty and biodiversity, where families, hikers, and nature enthusiasts go for peace and enjoyment. State legislators should enact legislation to protect and ...

I spent over a decade on the front lines of the tobacco wars in Florida. I did not watch the battles unfold from the safety of a high-rise office building. I fought on the courtroom battlefield in ...

IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT, IN AND FOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA THE STATE OF FLORIDA, et al., Plaintiffs, v. THE AMERICAN TOBACCO COMPANY, et al., Defendants. Civil ...

FLORIDA, USA — Every year, the American Lung Association looks at each state's efforts to eliminate tobacco use and publishes them on a report card called the State of Tobacco Control. And Florida's ...