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CIG-NIFICANT HELP
Jump to full article: New York Post, 2008-07-11
Author: MAURA O'CONNOR and HASANI GITTENS
Intro: Calls to 311 to help quit smoking tripled the week cigarette prices hit a sky-high $10 a pack at some city stores, according to data released by the city Health Department yesterday.
"I was smoking two packs a day, so right now I saved $600 over the last month," said Jeana Farelli, an artist from the Lower East Side who quit smoking 27 days ago.
She decided her money and health were more important than her Carlton 100s.
"No smoker wants to be a smoker," said Farelli. "A lot of my friends, people who I thought would never quit, are quitting now."
Analysis showed that help-line operators fielded more than 2,700 smokers' calls in the week starting June 2. Last year, during the same seven-day period, only 850 quitters dialed 311.
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No smoker wants to be a smoker. A lot of my friends, people who I thought would never quit, are quitting now.
Jeana Farelli, an artist from the Lower East Side who quit smoking when NY taxes rose.
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