Cigarettes were once unavoidable in the U.S., in restaurants, airplanes, your mom's living room — until health warnings and cultural pressure put out the hype. The big picture: Something's shifted.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoking rates have been dropping for decades thanks to well-documented health and lung cancer risks. But now an apparent rise in ...

Smoking is somehow inexplicably cool again, and I'm not happy about it. After a period of health-conscious stigma, it is now viewed as culturally acceptable and even desirable to be seen holding a ...