Dieters buying oodles of these noodles (Sun-Sentinel)
When Mark O'Meara and his wife quit smoking last year, he experienced an all too common problem: He gained weight — 35 pounds, to be exact. And so O'Meara, a 46-year-old computer programmer, and his wife, Char, vowed to get back in shape by following the Weight Watchers plan.
Source: www.sun-sentinel.com
Free Lecture On Smoking Cessation (Garden City News)
As part of its "Perspectives in Health" educational series, Winthrop-University Hospital will offer a free lecture, "You Can Quit Smoking Now…Learn How," on Tuesday, March 21, 2006, at 7:00 PM. The program will be held at Winthrop%27s Community Outreach Center, 101 Mineola Boulevard, at the corne
Source: www.gcnews.com
"Thank You for Smoking" takes wry look at lobbying (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Smug tobacco lobbyist Nick Naylor could easily have been the villain of the upcoming movie "Thank You for Smoking." After all, he tells children they should make up their own minds on whether to smoke.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Smoking (re)permitted at Metro (The Times of Northwest Indiana)
The year 1993 was a banner one for Windy City rock; Billy Corgan led his Smashing Pumpkins to mainstream "Siamese Dreams," Urge Overkill had "Saturated," a masterpiece, Liz Phair "Exiled" her way to near-universal critical hosannas, and grandiose alt rockers Smoking Popes turned heads with their debut "Get Fired."
Source: www.nwitimes.com
R.I. Gov. Would Cut Stop-Smoking Program, Shift Responsibility to Insurers (Join Together Online)
Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri is proposing to cut the state's tobacco-control budget in half while requiring health insurers to pay for smoking-cessation programs and medication , the Providence Journal reported March 4.
Source: www.jointogether.org
