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Should the tax on cigarette be made even higher? One group suggests it should be a lot higher if the Governor actually has the best interest of the state in mind.

Could it be the solution to the problem may be just as harmful as the problem it was supposed to solve? A new study is out concerning e-cigarettes and their use.

A Louisiana organization is offering free tips, free counseling, even free medications to help you stop smoking.

When you see the amount of money that tobacco companies spend promoting their product versus the amount of money our state spends in education, it's a wonder we aren't all riding Joe Camel to work like the Marlboro Man.

The Food and Drug Administration has placed a ban on four R.J. Reynolds brands of cigarettes. The ban includes the ever popular Camel Crush Bold brand of cigarettes.

The recent .50 cents per pack tax increase on cigarettes has more Louisiana residents looking for help to kick the habit.

Beginning today smokers will be paying an additional .50cents per pack for cigarettes as a new tax increase goes into effect.

House and Senate compromise on cigarette tax increase in final day of legislative session.

A conference committee will now decide just how much more Louisiana cigarette smokers will be paying in taxes.

The Louisiana Senate passes an even bigger increase in Louisiana's cigarette tax. Both the House and Senate will now have to compromise on just how much more they want smokers to pay.

Legislation to tax cigarettes at a higher rate moved through the House Ways and Means Committee yesterday.

Smokers could take it on the chin and in the wallet if a new tax passes through the Louisiana House Ways and Means Committee today.

After April 22nd, New Orleans will change forever as the city enforces it's smoking ban.

The tax on a pack of cigarettes could go from .36 cents to $1.54 if one Louisiana lawmaker gets his way in the next legislative session.

The New Orleans smoking ban made national headlines. Could Lafayette be next?

Across the nation teens are turning more to electronic cigarettes than they are to traditional tobacco products. Is that trend happening in Louisiana? If so is it a good thing?

The state legislature in 2013 passed a law requiring all public institutions of higher education to go smoke-free by Aug. 1, 2014.

Even though UL is attempting to establish a tobacco-free campus, there are a few exceptions.

With the beginning of the next school year smokers on the campus of Louisiana State University will be encouraged to not light up. The University has adopted a tobacco free plan that will be implemented August 1st. While many of the buildings on the LSU campus have been smoke free for years, the new policy will extend to the outdoors and include all tobacco products...

Careless smokers who toss their cigarette butts out of moving vehicles could find themselves a lot lighter in the wallet and giving up hours of their free time in exchange for their actions if Governor Jindal signs the legislation.