Stop Smoking News Archive

19-Apr-2006

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Looking to kick the habit? (The Current Online)

With the "truth" commercials and the long-winded debates about smoking, most people are aware of the reasons to stop smoking. Quitting is not easy, though; many smokers who have attempted to quit in the past start smoking again for a variety of reasons. Smokers on the UM-St.

Is it worth the weight? (Fort Wayne Journal Gazette)

Want to quit late-night snacking? Stop smoking? Control your temper? Exercise more? Stop procrastinating? Get places on time?

Make tobacco fee a tax, legislators say (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)

Antismoking forces are teaming up for advertising and legislative pushes to preserve Minnesota's 75-cents-a-pack tobacco charge, saying it already has shown life-saving health effects. "Whether you call it a fee or a tax, it is good policy," said Sen. Linda Berglin, DFL-Minneapolis, sponsor of a bill introduced Tuesday to convert the "health impact fee" enacted last summer to an equal tax on

Way to snuff out smokers' dilemma (Express and Star)

It's a habit most associated with real ale-loving old men and key figures of the 18th Century, but snuff, apparently, is making a comeback. Plans to ban smoking in pubs across the UK are expected to see revellers reaching for the ground, powdered tobacco, instead of 20 Marlboro Lights.

Tobacco Payments Obtained by Nixon for Missouri to Top $1 Billion (Kansas City InfoZine)

Attorney General again calls for funding anti-smoking efforts