Trying To Quit Smoking Links

Anti-smoking campaigns apparently have little effect on youth (CBC Edmonton)

Smoking rates in Alberta among youth are rising above the national average even though the province has spent millions of dollars trying to get people to quit, new figures released by Health Canada suggest.

Bollywood stars to campaign against smoking: Ramadoss (New Kerala)

Bangalore, Sep 2 : Leading film stars will be part of a massive national campaign against tobacco consumption, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said here Tuesday, also inviting superstar Shah Rukh Khan to be part of it.

Newly-defined Factors May Prevent Postpartum Smoking Relapse (Science Daily)

Although many women quit smoking during pregnancy to protect their unborn children from the effects of cigarettes, half resume the habit within a few months of giving birth. By shedding light on the factors that enable the other half to put down that cigarette for good, a study by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill could lead to programs designed to help women quit ...

Post DNC -- Denver is Denver Again (New America Media)

16th street downtown was reclaimed by its regular inhabitants: packs of young men on corners and benches, selling and smoking weed, a skinny, wrinkled old woman wheeling an oxygen tank and lighting a cigarette.

Warning over bogus smoking calls (BBC News)

People in Cornwall are warned about bogus callers asking for money to help them quit smoking when the service is free on the NHS.