Congratulations! You are about to experience a new freedom … and a new life. Just dropping a cigarette, because you know it’s a healthy thing to do “is not the only factor. Of course, I want you healthy, but there…
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Quitting smoking alternative
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Acupuncture and hypnosis are advertised as a drug-free ways to help smokers quit, and there is some evidence that they work, according to new studies. There are still many questions – including how effective alternative treatments can be, and how…
Independence of Kingston, going to tobacco free
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The World Health Organization will be very pleased with the new tobacco-free policy of independence, the shopping center. But Sam Patel and many customers are shopping center too. Beginning May 31 – WHO’s annual World No Tobacco Day – in…
Local regulations of alcohol and sale of tobacco products
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Recent legislation has brought good news for those who wish to enjoy a glass of wine in one of the small restaurants in Wellesley, but bad news for those who would like to buy a pack of cigarettes at a…
Nicotine Free Mountain Empire
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Everything – from a random person on the street to an elementary school child – knows that smoking is harmful to health. But few people realize that “smoking kills more people than alcohol, AIDS, car crashes, drugs, murders and suicides…
More needs to be done to keep young people from tobacco
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More work needs to be done so that young Americans are tobacco use, including the establishment of smoking bans and higher taxes on tobacco products, the U.S. office of a doctor said in a report published Thursday. Almost one in…
Cutting out cigarettes buys a family trip to Disneyland
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Shawn Peterson gave up smoking last Valentine’s Day. His wife Jodi stopped five weeks later. Today, the Edmonton couple is planning a family trip to Disneyland with their two little girls using the money that would have otherwise gone up…
Tobacco-free solution
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The University of California has proposed a plan that would permanently stifle cigarette smoke, but UC Merced students like Diana Gonzalez aren’t worried. Gonzalez, 18, supports the plan to make all UC campuses smoke- and tobacco-free. She knows from personal…
Non-Smoking Week
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For over three decades, the National Non-Smoking Week is designed to help Canadians make a break from smoking. This year, the Canadian Council on Tobacco Control seeks to highlight the complex relationship of Canadians, who smoke cigarettes have with them,…
Prevent Teen Cigarette Smoking
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Visual cues play an important role in the direction of early adolescent cigarette smoking. So much so that anti-smoking activists have fought for legislation to remove tobacco-related visual cues from cigarette packaging, television programs and movies. Ironically, the anti-smoking movement…
Housing smoke ban
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Balance between people’s rights and wishes needed before smoking is banned! A lot of Ontarians want smoking banned in apartment’s rooms, according to the results of a recent survey. The study, conducted by the Canadian Cancer Society in November, showed…
Farmers plan to stop making tobacco deliveries
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Tobacco farmers in Migori and Kuria districts have threatened to boycott deliveries to a tobacco Company due to delayed payments of their dues amounting to more than Sh100 million. The farmers say they don’t have money to take their children…
Justice Dept settles with tobacco cos on database
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The nation’s two biggest tobacco companies, Philip Morris USA Inc. and R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., have agreed to pay $6.25 million to support the country’s largest online collection of internal tobacco industry documents, the Justice Department announced Wednesday. The settlement…
Concerns to smokeless tobacco
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Weight gain It’s well known that smokers often gain weight when they quit, but fewer studies have been done on quitting smokeless tobacco. Researchers in a small 2007 study looked at people who were trying to quit smokeless tobacco. They…