Last week, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said that alcoholic drinks should carry a warning about cancer risks on their label. Alcohol consumption increases the risk of at least seven types of ...

Members of Generation Z on Long Island appear to support recent federal government proposals for a cancer-related warning label on alcohol and for limiting nicotine in cigarettes at a time when polls ...

A lit cigarette burns on a package of cigarettes revealing the mandatory warning labels, in the 1960s.Bettmann Archive/Getty Images In Jan., the now-former U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy called for ...

Cigarette packages currently come with a tidy black-bordered warning label, reminding users that smoking causes lung cancer, birth defects and heart disease. Dutiful, yes, and easily disregarded. On ...

A new study is the first to provide real-world evidence of the effectiveness of smoking warning labels that include graphic photos of the damage caused by regular tobacco use. Researchers found that ...

New York is treating teen social media use more like a public health risk than a private pastime, ordering mental health warning labels on addictive feeds in a move explicitly modeled on tobacco and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Alcohol is a leading cause of cancer, a risk that should be clearly labeled on drinks Americans consume, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy proposed on Friday. Murthy’s advisory comes ...

A Jan. 3 report from U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, MD, found that alcohol consumption contributes to about 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year. The causal link between alcohol ...

A lit cigarette burns on a package of cigarettes revealing the mandatory warning labels, in the 1960s. Credit - Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Vocal opponents of the tobacco industry, such as Sens.