Stop Smoking News Archive

29-Aug-2007

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Grocery workers ratify contract (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)

Five months of intense negotiations will result in enhanced medical benefits, modest pay raises and better scheduling for union workers at Puget Sound-area Safeway, QFC, Fred Meyer and Albertsons stores.

Be a quitter and win in stop-smoking test (Post-Tribune)

The Indiana Department of Health wants to help Hoosiers kick the smoking habit and has cash to back it up. It's sponsoring a Quit 2 Win contest with a top prize of $2,500 promised to a smoker who stops smoking. The deadline to enter is Sept. 5.

Health notes (Baltimore Sun)



Smoking-cessation class is offered in New Albany (Louisville Courier-Journal)

The Clark, Floyd and Harrison counties' Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Coalitions are holding a free "Stop Smoking Successfully" class from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesdays through Oct. 2 at the Cancer Care Center, 2210 Green Valley Road in New Albany.

Smokers to face picture warnings (BBC News)

Regulations are being set out under which all UK tobacco products will have to carry picture health warnings.

Grocery workers OK new contract (Seattle Times)

Puget Sound-area grocery workers overwhelmingly approved a three-year contract with Safeway; the parent companies of Albertsons, Fred Meyer...