Some D.C. lawmakers said the ban would benefit Black communities that use menthol cigarettes in higher numbers, but others worried of increased enforcement on those very communities.

D.C. has an adult smoking rate of 14.6 percent, though it’s higher for black and LGBT Washingtonians.

D.C. doesn’t know why.

In a release, Kenyan McDuffie said that raising the age would “decrease access to cigarettes, and, more importantly, may decrease the rate of smoking in young adults.”

A 28-year-old D.C. man was sentenced to 23 years in prison today for stabbing and choking a man to death over a cigarette in a Northeast park.

According to a D.C. group, a number of hookah bars and a new cigar lounge are violating D.C.’s ban on smoking in bars and restaurants.

D.C. has moved to ban insurers from charging smokers higher premiums on insurance plans they get through the new health exchange mandated by President Obama’s health care reform law.

A D.C. judge ruled today that tobacco companies will have to admit in advertisements that they lied to the public about the inherent dangers of smoking.

Only weeks after passing a law that makes having an open alcoholic container in public a misdemeanor offense, officials in Ocean City are revisiting a debate over whether or not to make parts of the beach off-limits to smokers.

One of the Occupy D.C. “sleep strikers” we met with earlier this week has gone to bed. The other, now in his fifth day without any rest, says he’s trying to stay awake for a couple more days. Is he crazy? Not yet.