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Campaign Urges Smokers to Enlist Doctors' Help in Quitting

Getting help and advice from a doctor more than doubles the chances that smokers can kick the habit, and U.S. health officials and medical groups are launching a new campaign to make that happen for the nearly 70 percent of smokers who say they want to qu
HealthDay [HealthScout]
added Jun 5, 2013 07:32
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[Massachusetts] Mass anti-tobacco spending goes up in smoke

Twenty years ago, supporters of a Massachusetts tobacco tax increase had lofty goals for the money it would bring in. A voter-approved 1992 ballot initiative nearly doubled the cigarette tax - from 26 cents to 51 cents a pack - to fund the creation of t
Quincy (MA) Patriot Ledger
added May 28, 2013 13:30
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[Cyprus] National anti-smoking plan on the way

THE HEALTH ministry is pushing ahead with a national committee to draw up an anti-smoking plan and supervise its implementation, the health minister said yesterday ahead of Friday’s World No Tobacco Day.
Cyprus Mail (cy)
added May 28, 2013 07:02
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[UK] Smoking service is proving to be a success

A STOP-SMOKING service is helping people across South Derbyshire to kick the habit. The service, which is delivered by Derbyshire’s NHS trust and held at Sainsbury’s in Swadlincote, is so far proving to be popular in convincing people to quit.
Burton Mail (uk)
added May 27, 2013 17:11
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Study: Over half of Romanian smokers plan to give up smoking in coming year

Over 56 percent of Romanian smokers are planning to give up in the coming year, shows a study recently presented by the Romanian Society of Pneumology, conducted under the European Commission’s campaign Ex-smokers Are Unstoppable.
Romania Insider (ro)
added May 27, 2013 16:46
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Louisiana Shelves Proposed Tax Hike On Cigarettes, But Local Insurance Agents At Cunningham Financial Group Offer Advice For Quitting

World No Tobacco Day takes place annually, in May. The local agents offer some tips to help quit today.
PR Web
added May 27, 2013 12:24
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App can help parents, patients quit smoking now ($$)

American Academy of Pediatrics
added May 27, 2013 11:33
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[Australia] Smoking research a winner

a group from Hunter Medical Research Institute who last week received a $10,000 prize for their research into smoking rates among pregnant Indigenous women. The University of Newcastle research team and health practitioners have taken out the prestigiou
Newcastle Herald (au)
added May 27, 2013 11:31
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[Massachusetts] As state diverts tobacco funds, treatment programs up in smoke

This fiscal year, state government will collect a combined $815 million in tobacco taxes and payments from a 1998 settlement with tobacco companies. It will spend $4.1 million on antitobacco programs -- less than 1 percent of total revenues.
Lowell (MA) Sun
added May 27, 2013 11:20
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[UK] Quitting smokes has left me a wreck, says Take That's Mark Owen

Take That's Mark Owen has said that since he stopped smoking, he has become an emotional wreck. Sober for three years after beating his booze demons, the singer has also cracked his nicotine addiction, making him a non-smoker for the first time in adulth
ANI (in)
added May 26, 2013 12:57
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