The Philip Morris cigarette plant in Concord, North Carolina is switching to produce batteries to store energy for wind and solar farms, Fortune reports.The plant used to manufacture a billion ...

The allotetraploid plant Nicotiana tabacum (common tobacco) is a major crop species and a model organism, for which only very fragmented genomic sequences are currently available. Here we report ...

Trillions of cigarette butts are littered yearly and a British study finds discarded filters on the tobacco products harm plant germination, stem length and root size in clover and grass ...

That’s because plants that were exposed to filters with some of the tobacco cigarette still remaining were about as stunted as plants with the filters alone.

Researchers have shown for the first time that cigarette butts reduce plant growth. Cigarette butts are the most common form of litter worldwide, with an estimated 4.5 trillion discarded annually.

India's biggest cigarette maker ITC Ltd shut its plants from May 4 to comply with a new stipulated pictorial warnings rule issued by the federal government, the company said in a statement.

Those cigarettes will now be produced in European plants, though Philip Morris International has not specified which ones, explained David Sylvia, a spokesman for Philip Morris USA.

4.5 trillion cigarette butts are littered yearly, and research now shows this specific waste is limiting plant growth. Learn more about this new research.

The tobacco plant contains high levels of nicotine. As such, nicotine is present in most tobacco products, including conventional cigarettes, clove cigarettes, and most e-cigarettes.

It’s not a rare jungle toxin or a venomous vine—this deadly plant is one of the most widely grown and consumed in the world. In this episode, we uncover the surprising truth about tobacco: a plant ...

22nd Century Group, Inc., a tobacco products company focused on nicotine harm reduction and contract manufacturing, today announced an agreement with Greenbutts, LLC to provide manufacturing space ...