“Quitting smoking is consistently one of the top resolutions made at the start of each new year,” said Susan Lennon, education and outreach specialist for the POW’R Tobacco Cessation Center, which serves Orange, Putnam, Westchester and Rockland counties. “With 70 percent of smokers reporting that they want to quit smoking, a new calendar beginning is an opportune time to make a quit attempt.”

The health of Wisconsinites has been stacked up against the rest of the United States, and there’s some good news and some bad news.

The National Cancer Institute has decided to promote a new quitting smoking program for young Americans soon, announced Erik Auguston, a behavioral scientist at the institute on Tuesday.

Smokers who are worried they will struggle to stay calm after throwing out their cigarettes should take note – a study has found quitters cope with stress just as well after beating the habit.

Tobacco additives found to be harmful despite previous reports

Though tobacco stocks offer attractive dividends and a compelling business model, many investors avoid them for moral reasons. These socially responsible investors do not want to benefit from an industry that destroys health, reduces life-expectancy, and hooks customers through chemical addiction.

In an all-out attempt to fight the tobacco menace among school children, the Health Department, along with the Education Department, has mooted the appointment of one teacher per school for monitoring use and sale of tobacco in and around the school premises.

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