Smoking

Some neighbors of Avera McKennan say the hospital has broken a promise to not use a residential lot across the street from its campus as an employee smoking area.

There could be some good news on the horizon for smokers who have been unsuccessfully trying to kick the habit - if the FDA would just give it the go-ahead.

The smoking rate in the nation is on the decline. It's even dipped a bit in South Dakota, according to the latest data.

Some South Dakota schoolchildren are joining others nationwide Wednesday in an anti-tobacco effort called Kick Butts Day.

The financial cost is extraordinary, the emotional cost heartbreaking.

In 2014, more teens use e-cigarettes than traditional, tobacco cigarettes or any other tobacco product — the first time a U. S. national study shows that teen use of e-cigarettes surpasses use of tobacco cigarettes.

South Dakota ranks 12th in the country in funding programs that prevent children from smoking and help smokers quit, according to a national report released Thursday by a coalition of public health organizations.

The City of Sioux Falls is reminding everyone that you can't use tobacco in the public parks when activities are going on for children under the age of 18, and on all City playgrounds. And they'll get no argument from me. No, I've never been a smoker, except for the experimenting everyone does when they're young and stupid...

Studies by researchers have found a way that may help those that struggle with the smoking habit.