Study finds smoking, appetite link (The Age)
Australian researchers have discovered why cigarette smoking suppresses appetite, providing hope for better treatments to help people quit without piling on weight.
Source: www.theage.com.au

Smoking increases risk of impotence: study (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Forget the Marlboro man — new research shows that smoking, often marketed as a symbol of virility, increases the risk of impotence.
Source: news.yahoo.com

Time to stop smoking (Nuvo)
This time, I mean it Steve Hammer I think I m finally going to do it this time. I m going to make one last gigantic push to try and stop smoking. After being enslaved to tobacco for more years than I…
Source: www.nuvo.net

Quit and stay slim (Herald Sun)
SCIENTISTS hope a breakthrough will allow them to help smokers quit and not put on weight. They have found that one of the main regulators of appetite, neuropeptide Y or NPY, which works directly on the brain's appetite centre, is affected by smoking.
Source: www.heraldsun.news.com.au

Judge hears request to stop St. Paul's March 31 smoking ban (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune)
When the city of St. Paul merged its health department with Ramsey County in 1996, it "bargained away its authority to regulate smoking" in the city, an attorney representing 16 St. Paul business owners argued in Ramsey County Court Thursday. Attorney Patrick O'Neill is seeking a temporary injunction to halt a smoking ban from taking effect in St. Paul on March 31. Ramsey County Judge David Higgs
Source: www.startribune.com