Free Smoking Cessation Center Pops-Up in Chicago This Week to Give Area Smokers and Their Loved Ones Help to Kick the (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
Nicorette is bringing a fresh new approach to quitting smoking to Chicago as part of a national challenge for a million smokers to commit to quitting.
Source: biz.yahoo.com
British TV Bans 'Tom And Jerry' Smoking Cartoons (Local6.com Central Florida)
A British television channel is kicking the butts out of some Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including "The Flintstones," "Scooby-Doo" and "Tom and Jerry."
Source: www.local6.com
FINDINGS (Washington Post)
Smoking may rewire people's brains in a way that makes it difficult to quit, a study says.
Source: www.washingtonpost.com
Oldest Man Turns 115 in Puerto Rico (ABC News)
World's Oldest Man Celebrates 115th Birthday in Puerto Rico; Quit 76-Year Smoking Habit at 90
Source: abcnews.go.com
Pub bids to shelter from smoking ban (Oldham Chronicle)
A LEES pub is looking to beat the smoking ban by building a special shelter for smokers.
Source: www.oldham-chronicle.co.uk
Health Alert: Smoking Teens (CBS 3 Philadelphia)
Despite all the warnings, nearly one out of four teens light up and now there s a new way to combat the problem. Medical Reporter Stephanie Stahl has the details.
Source: cbs3.com
Tom & Jerry quit smoking (Guardian Unlimited)
Media: Scenes of smoking are to be edited out of classic Tom & Jerry cartoons following a complaint to the broadcast regulator.
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
Big tobacco: 50 years of lies. Now what? (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
For 50 years, big tobacco has "lied" to the American public about the devastating health effects of smoking, a US judge ruled last week. That's a moral victory for the federal government, which initiated this massive court case seven years ago. Sadly, the ruling will do little to remedy the problem of tobacco use.
Source: news.yahoo.com
A pill to help you quit smoking (Pakistani Newspaper)
ISLAMABAD, Aug 17 (Online): Global pharmaceutical firm Pfizer has developed a pill that they claim can help you quit smoking.
Source: thepakistaninewspaper.com