Few Employers Help Workers Quit Smoking, Study Says (Join Together Online)
Indoor-smoking bans have made life in the workplace more difficult for addicted smokers, but only 4 percent of large employers offer comprehensive stop-smoking services to employees, the Associated Press reported Dec. 19.
Source: www.jointogether.org

Few employers offer help to quit smoking (Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce)
Only 4 percent of employers offer programs to help employees quit smoking, despite higher health costs for smokers and smoking breaks that could cost employers nine weeks of lost productivity a year, according to a study released Tuesday.
Source: www.djc.com

Lewis Franck: NASCAR works together to quit smoking (Sports Illustrated)
With New Year's resolutions just around the corner, it might be a good time for more than a a few of us to take a follow the lead of some of the crew members in NASCAR and stop smoking.
Source: sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Columbia Woman Arrested Following Early Morning Traffic Stop (MyMotherLode.com)
Columbia, Ca — Twenty year old Lissa Rayanne Cheshire was arrested following a traffic stop early this morning. Cheshire was pulled over at 2:50am on Shaws Flat Rd. It was determined that she was under the influence of a controlled substance.
Source: www.mymotherlode.com

Spare change - Bowling group among those seeking answers to smoking questions (The Times-Reporter)
COLUMBUS State officials defended the first draft of rules defining how a statewide smoking ban in public places will be enforced even as members of various interest groups picked it apart.
Source: www.timesreporter.com