No amount of negotiating by attorneys general, private lawyers, big-time lobbyists or anyone else will stop the tobacco companies from trying to hook kids, here and overseas, on the deadly habit.

They weren't talking about rugs' deadly habit of skidding on waxed floors, but about something that goes into the carpet's manufacture.

Should I continue to support her deadly habit or cut her off and force her to suffer the withdrawal she says she cannot endure?

Dr. Cannell argues that by treating smokers for tobacco-related problems he is, in effect, encouraging them in their deadly habit.

A crucial underlying problem, officials say, is a shortage of treatment programs for addicts who do seek help in beating their deadly habit.

Only when a smoker on the screen becomes so rare as to be a curiosity will there be a decrease in the numbers of young people taking up this deadly habit.

Smoking is a dangerous, even deadly habit.

I am a former smoker who would be delighted if all smokers here and elsewhere would also say goodbye to the deadly habit.

He so despised his deadly habit that he routinely thumped any kid caught sneaking puffs in the attic.

"The less places available to smoke, the easier it will be to stop this deadly habit," he said.