November 19, 2006
Quit smoking - Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Encourages Residents to Quit Smoking (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
Los Angeles County Department of Public Health Encourages Residents to Quit Smoking (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LOS ANGELES—-This Thursday, November 16, thousands of California smokers will take the American Cancer Society's challenge to quit smoking for at least 24 hours. Last year, more than 51% of more than one million adult smokers in Los Angeles County tried to quit this deadly addiction.
Source: biz.yahoo.com
More Results From Stop Smoking Effort (KTHV Little Rock)
About one-fourth of adult Arkansans still smoke and some legislators say they want to see more results from programs to prevent smoking and efforts to help people quit.
Source: www.kthv.com
UW Center offers military personnel help to quit smoking (Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune)
The University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention is offering a new program to help Wisconsin military personnel quit smoking. The program, Operation Quit Tobacco, provides free nicotine patches or gum to all military personnel including active duty Wisconsin National Guard members, reservists and all veterans who call the Wisconsin Tobacco Quit Line at 1-800-784-8669.
Source: www.wisconsinrapidstribune.com
Smoking, HPV might combine to cause cervical cancer: Study (EARTHtimes.org)
The interplay between heavy smoking and human papillomavirus (HPV) could boost the risk of developing precancerous cervical lesions and consequently cervical cancer, according to a new study by researchers at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden.
Source: www.earthtimes.org
