Proposed tax increases for tobacco, alcohol draw praise, criticism By Chandler Boese. The Wichita Eagle. January 11, 2017 7:07 PM. A customer buys beer at R & J Discount Liquor on Wednesday.

Taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and cigars could be on the rise in Kansas. In January, Gov. Sam Brownback put forward a budget proposal that would double the liquor enforcement tax to 16 percent.

The well-established link between cancer and tobacco may provide a way to help communicate the links between moderate levels of alcohol and cancer, and raise public awareness of alcohol-associated ...

Despite drawing some cynicism when they were introduced to the UK in 1971, the move has been dubbed a “global success” with cigarettes: in a 2008 study, approximately 70 per cent of ...

A "ONE-OFF" drawing by Oasis frontman Liam Gallagher is being put up for sale to raise money for charity. The untitled abstract drawing was done by the Burnage-born bad boy of rock shortly after ...

Sharon Catlin, left, and Michael Hatzisavvas are partners in The Big Cat’s Smoke Shop in Bristol, Conn.,which allows customers to roll their own cigarettes. MCT photos HARTFORD, Conn.

A study in the December issue of Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research has found that cigarette smoking can both exacerbate alcohol-induced damage as well as independently cause brain damage.

ANNAPOLIS, Md. (WJZ) -- Maryland's comptroller steps up enforcement of tax laws, announcing that cigarette, alcohol and fuel violations are on the rise. Political reporter Pat Warren reports on ...

But in suggesting that there is a “neurophysiological basis for the observation that nicotine use can increase the reinforcing properties of alcohol,” it may also underscore that tobacco’s ...

Roughly 80 percent of alcohol-dependent individuals report smoking regularly. Chronic, heavy alcohol consumption is already known to cause brain damage. Cigarette smoking can also cause brain ...