Imperial, which shut down its Montreal tobacco making plant two years ago, said its tobacco sales in Canada fell to 20.5 billion cigarettes this year from about 32.7 billion in 1994.

Tobacco kills 8 million people worldwide every year, but imagine if it could be used to make medicine. The idea isn’t unheard of – tobacco has been used as a herbal medicine in the past.

London-based researchers with Western University and the Lawson Health Research Institute are leveraging tobacco plants as “green bioreactors” that can produce a protein, IL-37, that could ...

Dr. Anthony Jevnikar, a professor at Western’s Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry and a scientist at Lawson, says they’ve been able to inject tobacco plants with a human protein that ...

Newsday Zimbabwe THE government has been challenged to come up with an indigenous tobacco policy to boost production, while ...