Tobacco companies paid the Hollywood A-listers of the 1930s and 1940s millions of dollars in today's money to endorse particular brands of cigarette, under contract, reveals research in Tobacco ...

Robert Jackler is a surgeon who's spent years researching tobacco and e-cigarette ads. He talks with NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro about what those ads have in common.

In the 1940s, cigarette consumption was at an all-time high. Its popularity was largely fueled by aggressive marketing campaigns through sponsored radio programs, billboards and magazine and ...

Cigarette Trading Cards Draws Ire RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Reviving a pastime that all but vanished in the 1940s, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is offering trading cards of all 50 states on packs ...