Facebook and iPhone applications can help you stub out your smoking habit
Are you one of the more than 2 million smokers ready to quit on No Smoking Day? Then today is your day! Don’t worry, you won’t be alone as there is an app for it – well, several. And this is how you can call it a day:
First of all, you install the WeQuit Facebook app to let everybody know what your are up to. It’s best to grab one of your chain-smoking ... Jump to full article >>
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Smoke-Free Oklahoma and Tulsa restaurant owner Ken Selby held a Capitol press conference Monday to call for abolishing smoke rooms in restaurants and ending smoking in bars.
Selby, the owner and operator of Mazzio’s and Oliveto restaurants, said his restaurants saw an increase in business when they went smoke-free a decade ago.
“Several years ago and considerably before there were any regulatory laws against smoking in restaurants, I ... Jump to full article >>
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The warning by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that passive smoking constitutes a global threat, is revealing and must be checked.
The UN agency had in its second major report on the “tobacco epidemic” released last week, said second-hand or passive smoking killed nearly 600,000 people each year. WHO, which also warned that tobacco is still the leading preventable cause of death, killing five million people every year, said more and more ... Jump to full article >>
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Nearly all facilities in Montana have gone-smoke free with the recent full implementation of the Montana Clean Indoor Air Act, but hotels are still partially exempt from the smoke-free rule.
The law, enacted in 2005 and implemented fully in October 2009, allows hotels to offer 35% of their rooms as smoking rooms, and the rest have to be smoke-free.
When Davidene Tait became the manager of the Triple Crown Motor Inn in downtown Great Falls, she im ... Jump to full article >>
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Sir Liam Donaldson, Britain’s most senior medical officer who has led public health drives to ban smoking in public places and control swine flu, is to step down after 12 years in the role.
The Times understands that Sir Liam wrote to Sir Gus O’Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, on Monday to announce his intention to hand over the reins next May.
Sir Liam, the Chief Medical Officer for England and the UK’s Chief Medical Adviser, has been in po ... Jump to full article >>
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With his fingers curled around a Marlboro Light and a gin and tonic in the other hand, Randy Dawe mused on the unfairness of a state smoking ban approved Thursday by the state Legislature.
Next spring, he won’t be able to inhale at his favorite tavern, Bob’s Sports Bar, 725 Michigan St. NE. Meanwhile, people who frequent casinos still will be able to light up.
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