World-Herald News Service When Jason Overton steps to a tobacco counter, one word comes to his mind: Quit. He’ll shake his head, complain a little and hand the clerk $5 for a pack of cigarettes. He’ll soon be handing over…
Daily Archives: March 25, 2009
Smokers Face Decision: Quit Or Cough Up
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The federal excise tax increase on tobacco won’t go into effect until next week. But throughout much of March, employees at Fred Hoyland’s chain of 16 local Tobacco Depot stores scrambled to post new prices for some brands of cigars,…
Higher cigarette tax may be incentive to quit smoking
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Linda Loud picked up her first cigarette when she was 12 and lighting up was the thing to do. Her father caught her. Loud didn’t pick up a cigarette again until she was 21. Since then, the 54-year-old has smoked…
Quit smoking on ‘Kick Butts Day’
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With the added 62 cent cigarette tax pending next week, Wednesday’s Kick Butts Day national commemoration is a great incentive date to begin kicking the nicotine habit, according to Sandy Gleim, Healthy Communities of La Porte County executive director. La…
PETA Offers to Rescue Tobacco Quit Line
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Much to the dismay of struggling addicts in the Wolverine State, the Michigan Tobacco Quit Line has been shut down until October 1 because it just couldn’t financially keep up with the requests for nicotine replacement therapy products. As an…