A cigarette flicked into a couch started a house fire that caused $130,000 damage Monday.

A Circle K clerk was threatened by a man with a gun Friday morning after he entered the convenience store and stole a carton of cigarettes.

There might be no bigger turn-off than the smell of stale tobacco, food, pet odors or other nasty assaults on your olfactory senses from inside a vehicle.

A grass fire sparked by cigarette ashes destroyed a Mesa house Thursday afternoon. No one was injured.

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Arizona officials are targeting illegal mail-order and Internet cigarette sales that don’t charge state taxes, saying lost revenue could be costing the state as much as $84 million a year.

A state senator wants to keep electronic cigarettes out of kids’ hands by making it a petty offense for merchants to sell them to minors and for minors to buy them.

An armed robber who stole numerous cartons of cigarettes and cash out of a store register early Friday remains on the loose.

RICHMOND, Va. — Something unusual is cropping up alongside the tomatoes, eggplant and okra in Scott Byars' vegetable garden — the elephantine leaves of 30 tobacco plants.

Mesa police are asking for the public’s help in arresting two men who they said brazenly stole an estimated $9,000 in cigarettes from two Circle K stores Dec. 29.

Mesa police arrested a man suspected of threatening to shoot a Circle K store clerk and stealing several packs of cigarettes and beer on Monday.

Frustration over having to show identification before buying cigarettes apparently boiled over Tuesday and ended in a Maryvale man being arrested on two counts of aggravated assault and theft, Phoenix police say.