JEANNE PHILLIPS DEAR ABBY: BOYFRIEND CLAIMS HE S STRAIGHT ARROW (Kansas City Star)
D EAR ABBY: I am 14 and I have been dating this girl, Beth, for two months and three weeks a long time for me. When we started dating, I told her I had had sex before, and I had just quit smoking and drinking and stuff. Well, Beth told her mom, and now her mom doesn t believe I quit!
Source: www.kansascity.com

Grisly pictures on cigarette packs to 'tell the truth about smoking' (icWales)
GRUESOME images of the effects of smoking are to be placed on cigarette packets from next year. The public are being asked to pick which images would be the most effective - ranging from a scan of an unborn baby to a picture of a heart patient being operated on.
Source: icwales.icnetwork.co.uk

Quitting smoking has quick benefits (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
Now is the perfect time to quit smoking. Kim Hess, lung health advocate at King's Daughters Medical Center, said in order to make quitting work for sure, be completely dedicated.
Source: www.herald-dispatch.com

Anti-smoking activists honoured (The Ottawa Sun)
Thu, May 25, 2006 Anti-smoking activists honoured By NELLY ELAYOUBI, OTTAWA SUN Recipients of the Heather Crowe Award (left to right) Deirdre Freiheit, Ken Kyle, Karen Chalmers, Holly Massie, Camille Juzwik, and Catherine Laska. (Sun photo by Errol McGihon) After watching her mother endure and lose her battle with cancer, 17-year-old Catherine Laska made it her plight to do what she could to stop
Source: ottawasun.com

State House passes smoking ban for state buildings (Tennessean)
The state House has approved a bill that for the first time would ban smoking throughout the entire state Capitol complex and the state prison system pretty much the last state-owned indoor spaces where it s still OK to light up.
Source: tennessean.com