"This is the cash cow that organised crime are milking ... it has become a cash cow for organised crime in Australia," he ...

Have you ever been drifting off to sleep when suddenly you hear what sounds like a gunshot, a door slamming, or an explosion inside your head? You jolt awake, heart pounding, sit upright in bed, but ...

In my early 20s, my favorite movie theater was a once-grand, crumbling landmark where you almost never had to search out a seat. After the previews, a young John Waters appeared onscreen, cigarette in ...

Nicotine, the highly addictive chemical compound in cigarettes, is having a bit of a resurgence as of late — with patches of the stuff even appearing in vending machines at tech company offices, ...

Yes, you read that right — cigarettes are having a moment again. Just when it seemed we’d burned that bad habit to the ground, Hollywood — ironically part of the nation’s most health obsessed state — ...

From Mexico to New Zealand, Europe to the remote Galápagos islands, researchers have observed an odd behavior of numerous bird species that we are only now potentially beginning to understand: They ...

Research from Poland adds to evidence from Latin American countries that compounds in used cigarette butts ward off parasites in bird nests. By Lesley Evans Ogden Darwin’s finches in the Galápagos, ...

Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter worldwide. Trillions are discarded every year in cities, parks, beaches, along railway tracks and roadside environments. Despite their small size, ...

The percentage of American adults who smoke cigarettes has dropped to the lowest level ever recorded, according to a new study. About 9.9% of U.S. adults reported smoking cigarettes in 2024, a drop ...