Where there s smoking there s tax revenue (The State)
BLOOMINGTON, Minn. Roland Henkel quit smoking in September and has been doing the math ever since. A week added to his life. More than 2,100 Marlboro Lights he hasn t smoked. And more than $400 he didn t spend on cigarettes.
Source: www.thestate.com
Book honors women lost to smoking (Dayton Daily News)
HUBER HEIGHTS Just a few weeks after her first child was born in July 2004, Anne Wainscott-Sargent lost her mother to lung cancer, the toll of nearly 50 years of smoking. Two years before that, her aunt succumbed to the same disease.
Source: www.daytondailynews.com
Smoking blamed in fatal Ky. house fire (AP via Yahoo! News)
A house fire that killed 10 people earlier this month was most likely related to smoking, the state fire marshal said Thursday.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Drop in smoking means less tax revenue (AP via Yahoo! News)
Roland Henkel quit smoking in September and has been doing the math ever since: A week added to his life. More than 2,100 Marlboro Lights he hasn't smoked. And more than $400 he didn't spend on cigarettes.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Smoking foes to seek tobacco regulation (AP via Yahoo! News)
Seven years after being rebuffed by the Supreme Court, anti-smoking advocates are again seeking federal regulation of tobacco, a step they say is needed to deter children from lighting up and to get smokers to quit.
Source: news.yahoo.com
Urbandale schools ban all smoking (The Des Moines Register)
Revised district tobacco policy extends smoking ban from buildings and vehicles to all persons on all school property.
Source: www.desmoinesregister.com
Ready to quit smoking? Try going cold turkey (The Wichita Eagle)
Sheri Odom started trying to quit smoking in her mid-20s. At least once a year she would pick up a supply of nicotine patches or nicotine gum, throw out her cigarettes and steel herself to quit.
Source: www.kansas.com
Smoking ban measure shelved until Feb. 28 (Lincoln Journal Star)
The sponsor of a bill that would ban smoking statewide called a two-week timeout Wednesday to regroup.
Source: www.journalstar.com
