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These stats kind of make you realize the death grip big tobacco has in the U.S
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Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a genuine pleasure for us to get to know them and the great work they are doing to help improve the health of the people of Leicester. What became clear was that this was not just a job for the team, but a passion!Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a... more
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Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a genuine pleasure for us to get to know them and the great work they are doing to help improve the health of the people of Leicester. What became clear was that this was not just a job for the team, but a passion!Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a... more
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Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a genuine pleasure for us to get to know them and the great work they are doing to help improve the health of the people of Leicester. What became clear was that this was not just a job for the team, but a passion!Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a... more
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Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a genuine pleasure for us to get to know them and the great work they are doing to help improve the health of the people of Leicester. What became clear was that this was not just a job for the team, but a passion!Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a... more
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Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a genuine pleasure for us to get to know them and the great work they are doing to help improve the health of the people of Leicester. What became clear was that this was not just a job for the team, but a passion!Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a... more
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Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a genuine pleasure for us to get to know them and the great work they are doing to help improve the health of the people of Leicester. What became clear was that this was not just a job for the team, but a passion!Please allow us to introduce NHS Leicester City's STOP! Smoking Service, it was a... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area.
Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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We're in New Parks, and its launch day of Lose the Smoker in You, the first campaign of its kind in the country. Serina takes time out to get behind the campaign and speaks to Television's Street Doctor, Dr Jonty Heaversedge about quitting smoking.We're in New Parks, and its launch day of Lose the Smoker in You, the first... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area.
Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area.
Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area.
Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area.
Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area.
Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area. Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks Community Boxing Gym with her partner Stuart Phillips. The Boxing Gym was established in April 2008, to help curb antisocial behaviour and crime in the local area. Quitting smoking isn't easy. We followed Serina and documented her journey in the Quit Smoking Diaries.Meet Serina Leeanne, a mother of two from Leicester who co-founded and runs New Parks... more
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AD AGENCY CLAIMS ONLY 'SHOCK' WILL STOP TEENS FROM SMOKING
Anti-smoking ads featuring reluctant male and female teens with their heads held to a man's crotch and a cigarette in their mouths is sparking an uproar in France. "Smoking is being a slave to tobacco," the ads read. Smoldering feminist and family organizations have lashed the campaign for using images of underage sex to sell a message, and some critics plan to file complaints with the French advertising watchdog agency.
http://www.newser.com/story/81657/french-anti-smoking-oral-sex-ad-sparks-furor.htmlAD AGENCY CLAIMS ONLY 'SHOCK' WILL STOP TEENS FROM SMOKING
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28% of smokers would quit for their pet's health...
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Cassie Graham began smoking at 15. Now 17, she is trying to quit. According to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention 1 in 5 high schoolers smoked cigarettes this past year. Research about qutting tends to revolve around adult smokers, though, leaving little help for kids like Cassie. Products like gum and patches are not FDA approved for anyone under 18. Support groups are stepping in to fill the role. Cassie signed up for a 10 week smoking-cessation class held during one of her free periods at a nearby school, designed by the American Lung Association for smokers ages 14-19.
Do you think there is a lack of support for young smokers?Cassie Graham began smoking at 15. Now 17, she is trying to quit. According to the... more
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Howard Weyers tried the "carrot" approach by giving his employees incentives and encouragement to quit smoking. But when that didn't work, he resorted to the stick. A big stick.
Weyers, owner of a health care benefits administrator in Lansing, Mich., gave his 200 employees an ultimatum in 2004: Quit smoking in 15 months or lose your job. He refused to hire smokers. Ultimately, he extended his smoking ban to employees' spouses and monitored compliance through mandatory random blood testing.
Weyers' method, while effective, wouldn't fly in California because the state has laws that prohibit employers from making hiring or firing decisions based on employee participation in a legal activity.
About 45 million Americans, 4 million of whom live in California, smoke cigarettes despite more than three decades of public efforts to encourage people to quit.
California, on both the state and local levels, has been at the forefront of anti-smoking efforts with laws to ban smoking in public places. A law went into effect in January that prohibits drivers from smoking when children are in the car. Still, smoking costs the state an estimated $8.6 billion in direct medical costs and $7.3 billion in lost productivity a year, according to the California division of the American Cancer Society.
In addition to lost work hours, employers have a vested interest in getting their workforce to kick the habit, given that they pay a large portion of health care costs and are the main source of health insurance for more than half the population.Howard Weyers tried the "carrot" approach by giving his employees incentives... more
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