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
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 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
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
No smoking? Coffers feel the pain (Seattle Times)
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…
Source: seattletimes.nwsource.com
Smoking Ban Takes Effect At Trolley Stop (NBC San Diego)
Smokers have one fewer place at which to light up. A new smoking ban takes effect Friday on the San Diego trolley system.
Source: www.nbcsandiego.com
Smoking, Obesity Risk Factors for Spinal Procedures (Health Scout)
FRIDAY, Feb. 16 (HealthDay News) — Smoking greatly increases the risk of needing spinal surgery to treat low back pain and being overweight boosts the likelihood of having postoperative pain and complications after such surgery, U.S. researchers say.
Source: www.healthscout.com
