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New York Smokers in New York City looking to light up in most public places will not be able to without paying a price after an outdoor citywide smoking ban takes effect Monday. The law, which Mayor Michael Bloomberg signed in February after it was passed by the New York City Council, will...

Nurses from across eastern Ontario are in Ottawa to learn new skills to use in their efforts to help patients stop smoking. The workshop is being held at the Richelieu-Vanier community centre, and is sponsored by the Registered Nurses Association of Ontario. Research has shown that even a...

Smoking is probably the biggest contributor to heart disease and death overall, in that about 20 percent of all deaths from either cancer or heart disease are attributable to smoking. The damage to the heart actually happens in the blood vessels, where it (cigarette smoke) irritates the inside...

-- The city that never sleeps is moving closer to becoming the city that never smokes, or at least the city that highly restricts it. Nine years after the Big Apple banned smoking in its restaurants, the New York City Council on Wednesday voted to ban smoking in city parks and on city beaches...

The Ontario government used Weedless Wednesday to encourage more people to butt out, but Premier Dalton McGuinty said he won't ban smoking in apartment buildings. "I think when you get into people's homes, you're crossing a line," said McGuinty. "It's pretty intrusive for us to go in there and...

When I came to China 39 years ago, airlines and hotels gave away cigarettes for free. Today, smoking remains a stubborn habit in China, where more than 300 million people are regular smokers. -- When I first came to China 39 years ago, airlines distributed cigarettes free of charge during...

BEIJING – China's addiction to huge revenues from its state-owned tobacco monopoly is hindering anti-smoking measures, potentially costing millions of lives in the country with the world's largest number of smokers, experts warned Thursday. The health and other costs of smoking already exceed...

http://cnn.com/video/?/video/politics/2010/12/23/sotu.sunday.preview.12.26.cnn The president may have kicked his smoking habit once and for all. It has been about nine months since the president's last cigarette, according to White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs. In an interview on CNN's...

Middle-age smoking increases dementia risk OAKLAND, Calif., -- Heavy smoking during middle age increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia by more than 150 percent, U.S. researchers say. Rachel A. Whitmer, a research scientist with the Kaiser Permanente division of...

Survey: More favor restaurant smoking ban PRINCETON, N.J., Fifty-nine percent of U.S. adults say smoking should be banned in restaurants, up 5 percentage points from 2007, a survey indicates. However, the USA Today/Gallup telephone -- land line and cellphone -- poll of 1,020 U.S. adults...

Public smoking bans effective for youth BOSTON, (UPI) -- Children and teens who live in counties banning smoking in public places have much lower levels of a secondhand smoke biomarker, U.S. researchers found. Study leader Melanie Dove, who received her doctorate in environmental health at...

This co-worker was truly concerned about her husband’s smoking habit. She had finally got him to agree to limit his smoking at home to only those times when they had finished making love. She said she had got the idea from a classic movie they had watched on TV called “Cold Turkey.” After about...

didn't like it -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A well-dressed gentleman entered an upscale restaurant in the East End of Manhattan, and took a seat at the bar. The bartender came over and asked "What can I get you to drink, sir?" The gentleman...

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The next time you go to the mens room you might need to pay forward... mpNpO4F1EdI;) Maybe that was the cause for the ban on smoking !!!:goofy: