Quit Smoking Support:
Quit smoking and stop the habit, cigarette smoking hazards, help and support to quit smoking and tips.
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Jun 20th, 2009
Tobacco manufacturers have continually changed the ingredients and the design of their cigarettes over time, even if those changes have exceeded acceptable product variance guidelines. The result is that consumers who buy the same brand of product are not made aware of how that product has been altered and what effect those alterations might have on their levels of addiction or harm.
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Jun 17th, 2009
The tobacco industry knows exactly what makes social smokers tick. Now, researchers want to use that once-secret information to help them quit.
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Jun 13th, 2009
The Michigan Tobacco Quit Line phones are back in service after they were mostly shut down for nearly three months due to a high volume of calls and limited funding.
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Jun 11th, 2009
Hopefully more people will stop smoking and will find it easier to quitting smoking after the U.S. Senate passes the Family Smoking and Tobacco Control Act to heavily regulate the tobacco industry.
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Jun 9th, 2009
Second-hand smoke is unsafe at any dose. This is the message of a new campaign the Health Department launched today to highlight the hazards of environmental tobacco smoke and the importance of having a smoke-free home, especially for children.
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Jun 6th, 2009
One year after New York State substantially increased the state excise tax on cigarettes, adult smoking in the state is at the lowest rate ever recorded, the State Health Department announced today.
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Jun 5th, 2009
For Gruen Von Behrens, an encounter with chewing tobacco on a camping trip nearly two decades ago led to an addiction that not only changed his life, but the lives of hundreds of thousands of teens across North America who have heard his story.
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Jun 3rd, 2009
New York Health Commissioner joined prominent tobacco-control advocates and more than 200 high school students from around the state to demand that the six companies that own the major motion picture studios eliminate smoking and other tobacco imagery from youth-rated movies.
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Jun 3rd, 2009
Despite the efforts of college students to quit smoking, recent research conducted by Joyce M. Wolburg at Marquette University suggests that an extended trial and error period is necessary.
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Jun 2nd, 2009
The Department of Health is rolling out a new systems-based approach to improve stop smoking interventions in primary care. This new approach has increased referrals to local NHS Stop Smoking services by up to 49% in pilot areas.
