Smoking

  • Daddy tokes up: Should we tell our teen?

    My husband smokes a lot of pot. Shouldn't we at least admit it to our son?
    By Cary Tennis August 13, 2009

  • Red State Update: No smoking on the battlefield!

    Jackie and Dunlap take on a recent Pentagon study that recommends a smoking ban for all U.S. soldiers
    July 17, 2009

  • Hazards of the catwalk

    Child labor and other model misbehavior.
    By Megan Doll September 28, 2007

  • Women's heart-risky habits?

    Study: We are more likely than men to die of heart attacks, yet less likely to take care of our tickers.
    By Lynn Harris September 12, 2007

  • "Premonition"

    This supernatural thriller, in which Sandra Bullock plays a woman living each day as if it were her husband's last, is too serious for its own good.
    By Stephanie Zacharek March 16, 2007

  • Screw you for not smoking

    Last fall, after 13 years of pleasurable puffing, I smoked my last cigarette. I thought quitting would make me feel healthy and hale -- so why the hell is my body falling apart?
    By Rebecca Traister March 14, 2007

  • Thank Mom for smoking?

    Australian researchers find that mothers who smoke pass health risks to daughters.
    By Page Rockwell October 23, 2006

  • Cozy with Big Tobacco, too

    Senior Justice Department officials -- one with close ties to the president -- take the bite out of a major five-year case against the industry.
    By Mark Follman June 16, 2005

  • Smoke gets in your eyes

    Cigarette smoking is a metaphor for sex, says the author of a book on tobacco.
    By David Bowman April 3, 2002

  • Shameful emissions

    The Supreme Court weighs whether the EPA overstepped its authority -- and public health hangs in the balance.
    By Stephen L. Cohen November 7, 2000

  • I am a mom and I smoke

    By Jennifer Hatala
    By July 17, 2000

  • I am a mom and I smoke

    How does this diminish my fitness as a parent?
    By Jennifer Hatala July 13, 2000

  • You don't even need to light up!

    Smoking rooms at airports are pretty ugly, but soon they'll be attractive and filled with food.
    By Mary Roach February 11, 2000

  • The Gitane affair

    Forget McDonald's and Coca-Cola; the French see American-style anti-tobacco lawsuits as one of the greatest threats to French culture.
    By Debra Ollivier February 9, 2000

  • Camels and cowboys

    I'll always be a smoker, even when I quit.
    By Tate Gunnerson February 8, 2000

  • I am a smoker

    I hate you, too.
    By Carina Chocano February 8, 2000

  • Smoke 'em if you've got 'em?

    No one has studied casual smokers, but their risk level might be lower than expected.
    By David McGuire February 7, 2000

  • Living the paradox

    How do the French eat all that cheese and still lose weight? I had to find out.
    By Valerie Frankel February 3, 2000

  • We've come a long way, baby

    My mother isn't the only one bound to her addiction: Smoking is what makes her truly my mother.
    By Peter Bebergal June 29, 1998

  • Salon Mothers Who Think | Not waiting to inhale

    Controversial former Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders talks about Big Tobacco's slick marketing campaigns, a new study showing that smoking among black teens is on the rise and why, despite everything, she believes President Clinton's private life should remain just that -- private.
    By Dawn MacKeen April 9, 1998
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