The beach at Zushi, Kanagawa Prefecture, opened its bathing season Friday with a basic smoking ban in place.The prefectural ordinance bans smoking on beaches except for special smoking areas but carries no penalty. The roughly 600-meter-long sand beach has five roofed smoking areas and operators of seasonal seaside houses will patrol voluntarily to ask smokers to use them, one of them said.

Smoking is a practice in which a substance, most commonly tobacco, is burned and the smoke tasted or inhaled. This is primarily practised as a route of administration for recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs. It can also be done as a part of rituals, to induce trances and spiritual enlightenment.

Smoking a single cigarette in a car, even with the window open, is said to create a greater concentration of secondhand smoke than a whole evening’s smoking in a pub or a bar. Three years after the smoking ban controversially came into force in England, a substantial proportion of smokers want to see restrictions extended to children’s play areas and smoking in cars. Just under half of smokers support a ban in play areas, while 61% support a ban in cars with children.

People who are dependent on alcohol are also likely to smoke cigarettes. Many experts believe that it’s important to counsel alcohol-dependent individuals to give up smoking as well as drinking not just to improve their health, but also to increase their chances of staying sober, reports the June 2008 issue of the Harvard Mental Health Letter.It is a common worry that trying to quit smoking and drinking at the same time will undermine treatment for alcohol dependence. However, most studies have reported that efforts to quit smoking either have no impact on maintaining sobriety or actually increase success of alcohol treatment.

“Pretty Wild” star Alexis Neiers was sentenced to 180 days in the clink for her participation in the bling ring, a group of Hollywood-area knuckleheads who robbed celebrities like Orlando Bloom and Rachel Bilson. Now it looks like any chance that her time in the slammer will appear on a second season of the E! show are dashed—the network is reportedly canceling the show, not because of Neiers’ prison sentence, but because new photos of her and pal Tess Taylor reportedly doing drugs have hit the internet.

Since Oct. 1, 2009, 16 Ulster County businesses have been cited by the Ulster County Health Department for selling cigarettes to minors.That is 15 more businesses than were cited in the 12 months between Oct. 1, 2008, and Sept. 30, 2009.Ulster County Health Director Dr. La Mar Hasbrouck said dramatic increase is the result of a renewed effort to root out those business which sell tobacco products to minors.

Your favorite tobacco products may be tough to find this week, as Utah stores prepare for a $1 per pack cigarette tax increase.As of Thursday tobacco sellers have to pay the state the difference between the old tax and the new level for every pack in stock. Some shops are letting their inventory lag to keep the tax payment as low as possible.Brit McLean, manager of One Stop Smoke Shop in Ogden, said he’s running low on supplies because customers are stocking up to avoid the tax increase as long as possible.

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