Culled from the archives of Harper's Weekly, this online trove of visual material and articles deals with the controversy over the alleged health benefits and potential hazards of smoking. The site begins with an orienting essay by John Adler, the publisher of HarpWeek. The compilation itself is quite revealing, pointing out that, as early as 1862, tobacco addiction was a recognized problem, and...

US Food And Drug Administration nicotine regulation documents have been aggregated at one site within the Government Printing Office Web site. The documents are available in both text and .pdf format. They are: "Regulations Restricting the Sale and Distribution of Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco to Protect Children and Adolescents" (final rule, released August 28, 1996); and "Regulations...

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) Tuesday released this 251-page monograph detailing the dangers of "low tar" cigarettes. The monograph, the thirteenth in NCI's Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph Series, reports findings that reductions in cancer rates are due to decreases in smoking prevalence not to changes in cigarette design, which according to NCI, have done little to address public...

In a major victory for cigarette manufacturers and a setback for the Clinton Administration, the nation's highest court ruled Tuesday that the government does not have the authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug. The case, on appeal from the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, concerns the sweeping new regulations introduced by the Food and Drug Administration in 1996 with the...

The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has prepared a report analyzing the impact of the proposed tobacco settlement's impact on consumers and industry. In the report, CBO estimates the reduction in smoking under various scenarios if the settlement is implemented. The report also examines the impact of regulation on public health provisions, tobacco industry payments, and targets for teen smoking....