Housing authority votes to ban smoking in public housing (Billings Gazette)
HELENA - Helena Housing Authority commissioners have decided to ban smoking at all HHA-owned property, beginning July 1.
Source: billingsgazette.net
New Delhi Bans Smoking While Driving (CBS News)
Smoking poses serious health risks. So does driving in New Delhi. And combining the two is deadly, according to two New Delhi judges who have barred smoking at the wheel, officials said, apparently creating the first such ban in the world.
Source: www.cbsnews.com
Minnesota moves one step closer to embracing smoking ban (Minnesota Public Radio)
The "Freedom to Breathe Act" would toughen Minnesota's groundbreaking 1975 Clean Indoor Air Act by prohibiting smoking in virtually all enclosed public places, including taxis, transit terminals and even bus stop shelters.
Source: minnesota.publicradio.org
Group has anti-smoking chalk talk (The Advocate)
NEWARK — As Lauren Cayton scrawled an anti-smoking message on the sidewalk Tuesday, she had family on her mind. "(This is important) so that when my niece and my little cousin grow up they know better, and they know it's OK not to smoke or use smokeless tobacco," the 13-year-old Newark teen said.
Source: www.newarkadvocate.com
Popular New Videos (Teen Hollywood)
Matthew Fox has vowed to quit smoking by the end of 2007- because the bad habit has left him cowering from his children. The Lost star, who has smoked cigarettes since he gave up chewing tobacco at university in the late 1980s, admits he hates the addiction - and resolves to quit each new year.
Source: www.teenhollywood.com
HANOVER HOSPITAL: Quit smoking with help (York Daily Record)
Hanover Hospital will begin its next "Freedom from Smoking" program 6 to 7:30 p.m. April 3 at Hanover Community Health & Education Center. The seven-session program presents various ways to break the habit. Sessions are free, but registration is required.
Source: www.ydr.com
Big Tobacco Claims Initiative Protects Its Lies About the Health Effects of Smoking in Case Pending Before CA Supreme … (U.S. Newswire via Yahoo! News)
The tobacco industry is arguing that a ballot initiative promoted as a law to stop "shakedown" lawsuits against small businesses should also allow cigarette makers to get away with lying about the health effects of smoking and marketing cigarettes to children. In a "friend of the court" brief filed with the California Supreme Court today, the nonprofit Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights …
Source: news.yahoo.com
Think about quitting smoking if you are scheduled for surgery — HealthandAge (HealthandAge)
It is important to quit smoking before surgery so as to reduce the risk of complications. There are many reasons for giving up smoking.
Source: www.healthandage.com
