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The Manchester Parks and Recreation Department and The Collaborative are considering an ordinance, which if ultimately approved, would ban smoking in the Rec Park.
The concept was first discussed several years ago when Ryan Scovil was director of the parks and recreation department, said Amy Herrmann, the department's interim director.
The two organizations had recently talked about banning smoking at Applejack Field and the grandstand, but decided to take the initiative further, Herrmann said.
"Upon further discussion we determined that it would be easier to make the whole park smoke free as opposed to one small piece of it being smoke free," Herrmann said.
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We encourage you to attend the “First Annual C. Everett Koop, MD Tobacco Treatment Conference” to be held at the Lake Morey Inn in Fairlee, Vermont on Friday, September 18, 2009. Nationally recognized expert on tobacco, Founder and Director of the University of Wisconsin Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention (UW-CTI), Michael C. Fiore, MD, MPH, MBA, will provide the keynote address for a stimulating day on innovative approaches to current evidence-based tobacco treatment.
Physicians from across the nation gathered to discuss smoking-related issues in the first-annual C. Everett Koop Tobacco Treatment Conference, held on Sept. 18 and sponsored by Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center.
Former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop ’37 gained national attention as surgeon general in part because of his work to increase awareness about the dangers of smoking tobacco.
The event’s speakers highlighted emerging treatments for nicotine dependence and discussed the updated clinical guidelines for treating tobacco addiction. Attendees also completed an instructional clinic focusing on motivational interviewing techniques that may help patients stop smoking.
University of Wisconsin professor Michael Fiore presented the keynote lecture, “Treating Tobacco Dependence: New Clinical Practice Guidelines,” which focused on new strategies and medications that can be used to help people quit smoking. Roughly 20 percent of Americans have a smoking habit, he said.
Police say a nail salon manager upset with a man smoking outside of his business stabbed him after they started to fight.
Police say Stephen Le, 40, of of South Burlington was cited for aggravated assault and is to be arraigned today. Daniel Dennis, 23, of Essex was treated for an abdominal wound. Police Chief Trevor Whipple said Le apparently became upset that Dennis was smoking outside Le's business Wednesday and began arguing with him.
MANCHESTER VILLAGE -- Burr and Burton Academy's Health Clinic Director Megan Cornell (center) and members of the Leaders Advocating Mega Outstandingness and Our Voices eXposed group, also known as BLAMO, want the community to know that the school grounds are a Tobacco-free Zone.
students from six Southern Vermont schools will gather at Burr and Burton Academy Sept. 13 to pledge to remain substance-free for the school year.
The Refuse to Use program, sponsored by The Collaborative in partnership with Stratton Mountain Resort, Viking Nordic Center and Riley Rink, is in it's seventh year of promoting healthy choices. Similar to previous years, about 400 students grades 7 through 12 are expected take the pledge to refrain from use of drugs, alcohol and tobacco.
On July 1, Vermont's tax on cigarettes increased by 25 cents a pack. That means a pack-a-day smoker will now spend more than $2,360 on cigarettes in a year; a two-pack-a-day smoker will spend almost $4,720.
Quitting eliminates or reduces all of the expenses that go along with smoking. Just imagine what you could do with those savings -- pay off that credit card debt, plan a nice vacation or get a new flat-screen television! . . .
A great step is to use the Vermont Quit Network. This resource is available thanks to Vermont's Tobacco Control Program and it's free. Quit by phone by calling 800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669) where you can get free advice and counseling on how to stop. You can also get help online at VTQuitNetwork.org. Quit-in-person coaches are also located at hospitals throughout the state. To find your local coach, call 800-QUIT-NOW. The Vermont Quit Network also offers free nicotine replacement therapy -- patches, gum or lozenges -- to all Vermonters.
With the new tax, the health risks, and the support available now, there's never been a better time for smokers to kick the habit.
In one of the most recognized student-based rankings in the country, Bennington College students stand out for their liberal views, lack of religious beliefs, participation in class discussions and for being self-described "Birkinstock-wearing, tree-hugging, clove-smoking vegetarians."
This comes from The Princeton Review's annual college guidebook, "The Best 371 Colleges: 2010 Edition," which lists the top 20 schools -- from the best 371 institutitions of their choosing -- in 62 different categories.
On July 1, Vermont's tax on cigarettes increased by $.25 cents per pack. That means a pack-a-day smoker will now spend more than $2,360 on cigarettes in a year; a 2-pack-a-day smoker will spend almost $4,720. Quitting eliminates or reduces all of the expenses that go along with smoking. Just imagine what you could do with those savings - pay off that credit card debt, plan a nice vacation, or get a new flat screen television! . . .
A great step is to use the Vermont Quit Network. This resource is available thanks to Vermont's Tobacco Control Program and it's free. Quit by phone by calling 1-800-QUIT-NOW (784-8669) where you can get free advice and counseling on how to stop. You can also get help on-line at VTQuitNetwork.org. Quit-in-person coaches are also located at hospitals throughout the state. To find your local coach, call 1-800-QUIT-NOW. The Vermont Quit Network also offers free nicotine replacement therapy - patches, gum or lozenges - to all Vermonters.
White River Junction -- Not long ago, the VA Medical Center here provided a room where veterans and employees could go to smoke. But ashtrays have since been replaced by high-tech fitness equipment, and smoking has been relegated to an outdoor shelter by the parking lot.
The former smoking lounge, just off a lobby in an administrative building, closed about two years ago, according to VA Medical Center spokesman Andy LaCasse.
At the time, Vermont law allowed employers to set aside indoor smoking areas for workers. LaCasse said that the hospital's acting director, Kathryn Harty, took the initiative to move smoking outside.
"It was obvious that it needed to be out," LaCasse said.
On the first of this month, all Vermont workplaces that hadn't already banned smoking indoors were required by law to do so.
Setting
School- and telephone-based surveys in New Hampshire and Vermont between September 1999 through November 1999 and February 2006 through February 2007. . . . Conclusions
Team sports participation clearly plays a protective role against established smoking, even in the face of exposure to movie smoking. However, movie smoking exposure increases the risk of established smoking among both team sports participants and nonparticipants. Parents, teachers, coaches, and clinicians should be aware that encouraging team sports participation in tandem with minimizing early exposure to movie smoking may offer the greatest likelihood of preventing youth smoking.
Adolescents who participate in team sports are better able to resist the temptation to smoke than nonparticipants, even when they watch movies that portray characters lighting up, a study found.
Young people who did not participate in team sports were twice as likely to become smokers than those who did join teams (95% CI, 1.47 to 2.74), according to the study published in the July 6 Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.
While team sports helped counter the influence of watching smoking in movies, the likelihood of youths becoming smokers was proportional to the number of times they saw smoking depicted in movies.
Action Points
* Explain to interested parents that watching movies that depict smoking makes adolescents more likely to become smokers.
* Explain to interested parents that team sports participation seems to protect adolescents from becoming smokers. . . .
Primary source: Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine Source reference: Adachi-Mejia A, et al "Influence of movie smoking exposure and team sports participation on established smoking" Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2009; 163: 638-43.
Participating in team sports is associated with a reduced likelihood of youths becoming established smokers, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. However, exposure to movie smoking appears to be associated with an increased risk of established smoking in both team sport participants and nonparticipants.
Past studies suggest that there is a direct association between movie smoking exposure and youth smoking initiation, with 30 percent to 50 percent of adolescents' smoking initiation attributed to movie smoking exposure, according to background information in the article. "Movie smoking exposure appears to increase the risk of smoking initiation by enhancing adolescents' perceived benefits of smoking and making them more susceptible to peer influences," the authors write.
Anna M. Adachi-Mejia, Ph.D., of Hood Center for Children and Families, Dartmouth Medical School, Lebanon, N.H., and colleagues analyzed data from school- and telephone-based surveys
Cigarettes in Vermont cost a quarter more a pack and $2.50 more a carton, and the 6 percent state sales tax applies for the first time to liquor, all the result of legislation that took effect Wednesday. Liquor? No big deal, beverage store proprietors said. Cigarettes? That's another story. . . .
"They're trying to out-price it," she said of the extra 25 cents a pack, "but if everyone stopped smoking, they'd have to find something else to go after."
Would the extra charge persuade her to stop?
"Probably not," she said.
Maher said the state's intent was to "isolate a certain group." The price increases would at some point lead to bootlegging, she said. "It'll be what the Prohibition was."
Frantz Ozanic, a 20-year smoker, also standing in front of the library, said Vermont was moving in steps to make cigarettes "unobtainable."