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Louisiana ranks 5th in the U.S. for smoking and COPD, with 15.7% of adults smoking and 8.7% battling chronic lung disease.

The FDA’s new proposal could drastically cut nicotine in cigarettes. Here’s how it could impact Louisiana smokers, farmers, and public health.

Two major cruise lines that serve Louisiana ports have made major changes to their onboard smoking policy. Let us clear the air for you.

Two major cruise lines that serve Texas ports have made major changes to their onboard smoking policy. Let us clear the air for you.

Not only could smoking kill you, but it's also crazy expensive. Here's the real cost of being a smoker in Louisiana.

Louisiana investigators believe the fire was started by a smoker trying to light a cigarette while using oxygen therapy.

Could cold hard cash be what it takes for Louisiana smokers to finally put their smokes down once and for all?

Proponents of the ban cite health benefits not just for the customers, but for the employees of the establishments as well.

There is a big debate smoldering in the city of New Iberia.

Parks Senator Fred Mills files legislation to raise the minimum age to buy tobacco products from 18 to 21

Louisiana won't raise its legal smoking age from 18 to 21.

A bid to increase Louisiana's legal smoking age from 18 to 21 narrowly escaped the House budget committee, but only after lawmakers added a long list of exemptions to the proposal.

When it becomes the law of the land, the new age restrictions would also apply to vaping and e-cigarettes.

Officials in some of our favorite beach communities are looking at making public beaches smoke free.

Beginning tomorrow--August 1--smoking will no longer be permitted at bars in Lafayette.

A resolution by a West Monroe state legislator has raised the question.

Lafayette, LA is officially smoke-free.

Would you be offended by this billboard?

More Louisiana residents are giving up cigarettes. The reason they are might not be so much about health as it is about money and convenience.

These four activities have been linked to better brain function. They are all things we are capable of doing. Most of us just choose not to do them.