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Smoking's Many Myths Examined (LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News)

Unless you're living in a cave under the heart of Kentucky tobacco country, you know that smoking isn't exactly the best thing for your health. Scientists have succeeded in associating the habit with everything from countless cancers to bad-hair days, or so it seems with some reports.

Smoking And The Bandits (New York Press)

The cabbie was squat and unshaven and had two packs of Seneca Lights jammed into the driver’s-side cup holder. I tightened my seatbelt, and he picked up the radio. “Rails to the Rez,” he informed the dispatcher.

SC ranks last in tobacco prevention spending (AP via Yahoo! Finance)

Ten years after the tobacco settlement, South Carolina has slid back to its worst-in-the-nation status in what it spends to keep people from smoking, according a report released Tuesday by a coalition of public health groups.

SC ranks last in tobacco prevention spending (The Charlotte Observer)

Ten years after the tobacco settlement, South Carolina has slid back to its worst-in-the-nation status in what it spends to keep people from smoking, according a report released Tuesday by a coalition of public health groups. South Carolina will collect $114 million this year from the tobacco settlement and taxes, but it is the only state that doesn't plan to spend any state money to help people ...

Through My Eyes essay contest: Honorable mentions (The Daily News)

Several young adults earned honorable mention in The Daily News essay contest, Through My Eyes. Each shares a personal, distinctive view of how the misuse of drugs or alcohol can changes people’s lives.