Smoking Gap Between Blacks and Whites Still Too Large (Baltimore Times)
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Cigarette smoking and lung cancer mortality rates overall are declining in the U. S., but lung cancer death disparities between the races - Blacks and Whites - remain alarming, leading health care and anti-smoking experts say.
Source: www.btimes.com

Basescu has a month to quit smoking (Nine O'Clock)
President Basescu only has a few weeks to quit smoking as he promised, that is exactly the period needed by the Ministry of Public Finances and the Ministry of Health to draft the norms for the implementation of the tax on vices.
Source: www.nineoclock.ro

Smoking ban may be driving some to quit (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
ASSOCIATED PRESS Passed in the hope of clearing secondhand smoke indoors, New Jersey's two-week-old smoking ban is having a beneficial side effect - encouraging smokers to quit. Increasingly, they are reaching out for help from state-funded quit centers.
Source: www.twincities.com

Time to patch out the cigs (New York Daily News)
Ben Gillig had promised his new bride he would stop smoking, but even his best efforts to kick the habit didn't work.
Source: www.nydailynews.com

Mayfield Restaurant Goes Non Smoking (KFVS12)
Mayfield, KY - Smoking is a staple in Western Kentucky; most restaurants are divided down the middle into smoking and non smoking sections. But after more than 70 years one Mayfield eatery's snuffed out the option.
Source: www.kfvs12.com

'Teachable' 9/11 Moment Helped Smokers Quit (New York Times)
A smoking-cessation program for New York City firefighters in the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was a success.
Source: www.nytimes.com

Smoking ban in future? (phillyburbs.com)
First New York and Connecticut did it, now New Jersey has done it. It's just a matter of time before Pennsylvania does it. What am I talking about? The recent bans on smoking and the call for it to happen next in Pennsylvania. What does this mean for bowling in Lower Bucks County?
Source: www.phillyburbs.com

New Kind Of Drug Could Increase Number Who Quit Smoking (Science Daily)
Smokers are twice as likely to quit if they use medication, but 80% will be smoking again within a year. These success rates could be improved with a new kind of drug currently being evaluated by the FDA under a six-month priority review, according to a leading smoking research centre.
Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Smoking Gap Between Blacks and Whites Still Too Large (Baltimore Times)
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Cigarette smoking and lung cancer mortality rates overall are declining in the U. S., but lung cancer death disparities between the races - Blacks and Whites - remain alarming, leading health care and anti-smoking experts say.
Source: www.btimes.com