WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Television ads that tobacco companies say are designed to discourage teenagers from smoking do no such thing, and some may actually encourage youths to smoke, researchers ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention's "Tips From Former Smokers" ads are set to stop at the end of September. For 13 years, these tough and honest commercials told real stories about the ...

The surest way to get teen-agers to do something is to tell them not to. That principle appears to apply to some smoking-prevention ads created by tobacco companies, a new study has found. Youngsters ...

The American Legacy Foundation (ALF), an anti-smoking fund funded by tobacco companies following a late-1990s settlement agreement, is launching a new campaign in its eight-year-old "Truth" campaign ...

'Tips From Former Smokers' ads will end in September after 13 years The ads encouraged millions to give up tobacco and helped more than a million succeed Public health experts warn ending the ads ...

PHOENIX — A last-minute decision by Arizona officials has snuffed out a series of anti-smoking television commercials aimed at teens and children. The ads were the centerpiece of a $900,000 campaign, ...

RICHMOND, Va. -- He's billed as America's most pathetic superhero: Buttman, an overweight chain-smoker who hacks, spits and gets too winded to respond to emergencies. Buttman is part of a series of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend – but not by choice. Under court order, the tobacco industry for ...

WASHINGTON (AP) _ Joe Camel may be gone, but cigarette makers are still coming up with ads that have a greater impact on young people than anti-smoking messages, said a study released Monday. Exposure ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A 2012 national TV ad campaign that featured real people living with diseases and injuries caused by smoking was tied to 1.6 million smokers making quit attempts and over ...

WEDNESDAY, Aug. 27, 2025 (HealthDay News) — The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will stop airing its “Tips From Former Smokers” ads at the end of September, ending a 13-year ...