Regulators are considering prohibiting some e-cigarette sales in convenience stores and confining them to vape shops, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday. High school e-cigarette use surged 77 percent last year, Gottlieb said in an interview on “Squawk Box,” citing preliminary figures from the federal Youth Tobacco Survey. Middle school

More high school kids are smoking cigarettes as vaping surges, reversing a two-decade-long decline. Last year, 8.1 percent of high school students reported smoking cigarettes, up from 7.6 percent in 2016, according to federal health officials, who asked not to be named because the data haven’t been publicly released. The increase is not statistically significant,

Philip Morris International is unveiling two new versions of its smokeless tobacco device, iQOS, in the more than 40 markets around the world where iQOS products are already available. The company is also introducing a less expensive line of expensive tobacco insert for the devices, called HEETS, in Japan as it tries to fend off

U.S. health-care conglomerate Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it will buy all outstanding shares of Japanese skincare firm Ci:z Holdings that it does not already own for 230 billion yen ($2.05 billion) in cash. J&J is betting the deal — which will give it ownership of popular brands such as Dr.Ci:Labo, Labo Labo, and

AstraZeneca is plowing deeper into cancer immunotherapy through a wide-ranging deal with Innate Pharma, which includes the British group buying a 9.8 percent stake in the French biotech company. Tuesday’s agreement is a coup for Innate — run by former AstraZeneca executive Mondher Mahjoubi — which gains rights to sell AstraZeneca’s newly approved rare blood

When pharma giant Pfizer announced in January it planned to shut down early- and mid-stage neuroscience drug development, it was another blow to a field already in a defensive crouch. Diseases of the central nervous system — from Alzheimer’s to Parkinson’s to Lou Gehrig’s disease — have been incredibly difficult for drug developers to crack,

Uncle Sam has a birthday gift for certain people who make it to 100: A tax bill. This applies to those who purchased so-called permanent life insurance to address complex financial planning needs, including estate planning. These contracts come with a savings component, known as cash value, which accumulates free of taxes. Your heirs generally

Leading e-cigarette manufacturer Juul spent half a million dollars on lobbying last quarter — up 167 percent from the previous quarter — as regulators weigh restrictions on the industry to stem a surge in teens using the devices. In the third quarter, Juul spent $560,000, according to a lobbying disclosure form. That compares with the

Tracy Pugh, an event planner based in Oakland, Calif., had a hard time breastfeeding her second child. So, when her third baby was just a few weeks old, she decided to invest about $1,000 into a “smart” breast pump from a Silicon Valley-backed start-up called Naya Health. Pugh ordered the Naya device in time for