Tobacco plants may have a reputation for causing cancer, but a team of researchers at ASU's Polytechnic campus and Tempe's Biodesign Institute are putting them to use to develop a treatment for the ...

This video explores the tobacco plant Nicotiana rustica, also known as Aztec tobacco or strong tobacco. A member of the Solanaceae family, it can contain up to nine times more nicotine than common ...

Parent company of Philip Morris says it is moving some of its production to Europe. RICHMOND, Va. — Altria Group Inc., parent of the Philip Morris cigarette companies, will cut in half its U.S.

The owner of the nation's biggest tobacco company, Philip Morris USA, has sold a North Carolina cigarette plant it idled in 2009. Richmond, Va.-based Altria Group Inc. said Monday that the property in ...