Live Longer ! Quit Smoking

We’ve heard for years that these actions will help us live longer, but this study actually quantifies their collective impact.
Between 1993 and 1997 the researchers questioned 20,000 healthy British men and women about their lifestyles. They also tested every participant’s blood to measure vitamin C intake, an indicator of how much fruit and vegetables people ate.
Then they assigned the participants — aged 45-79 — a score of between 0 and 4, giving one point for each of the healthy behaviors.
After allowing for age and other factors that could affect the likelihood of dying, the researchers determined that people with a score of 0 were 4-times as likely to have died, particularly from cardiovascular disease.
The researchers, who tracked deaths among the participants until 2006, also said a person with a health score of 0 had the same risk of dying as someone with a health score of 4 who was 14 years older.
The lifestyle change with the biggest benefit was giving up smoking, which led to an 80 percent improvement in health, the study found. This was followed by eating fruits and vegetables. via changing-aging

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Employees Fired for Not Smoking

Now here is a twist on the general direction of workplace rules. I'm sure it will be just a matter of time.
BERLIN (Reuters) - The owner of a small German computer company has fired three non-smoking workers because they were threatening to disturb the peace after they requested a smoke-free environment. The manager of the 10-person IT company in Buesum, named Thomas J., told the Hamburger Morgenpost newspaper he had fired the trio because their non-smoking was causing disruptions. Germany introduced non-smoking rules in pubs and restaurants on January 1, but Germans working in small offices are still allowed to smoke.
"I can't be bothered with trouble-makers," Thomas was quoted saying. "We're on the phone all the time and it's just easier to work while smoking. Everyone picks on smokers these days. It's time for revenge. I'm only going to hire smokers from now on."
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Pushing Tobacco on the web: is YouTube telling or selling you something?

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$3.4 Million Brand Icon Photo - Marlboro Man Sets New Record

I find this in a way to be incredible, but remembering the country that I live in. Very believable.




Marketing alone made this the most valuable photograph in the world. It sold for over $3.4 million dollars because of its iconic status. You recognize it as the foundation for the long-running Marlboro Man.

Richard Prince took the photo and ensconced him in the halls of American photographer fame.
The record-breaking Prince image is from his untitled cowboy series – in which Prince photographed sections of Marlboro cigarette ads and enlarged the photos to an enormous size. The photo sold at Sotheby's measures 100 by 66 inches and was one of an edition of two plus one artist's proof. It is dated 2001-02. (pdnonline)

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No buying cigarettes at #1 rated supermarket chain

It's going to be harder to even find a place to buy cigarettes in New York State as a report in the Buffalo News reports that Wegmans Markets, the #1 rated supermarket chain in the US, will stop selling tobacco productsis stamping out sales of cigarettes and other tobacco products at its supermarkets, becoming the first grocery chain in New York State to do so.
The Rochester-based company, which has 10 stores in Erie and Niagara counties, announced it will halt tobacco sales effective Feb. 10. Wegmans will continue to sell tobacco products until then, but will not replenish its inventory.
“It will now be a matter of how other businesses respond to what [Wegmans] decided to do,” said Rebecca Marion, a council spokeswoman. Target Corp., based in Minnesota, halted cigarette sales back in 1996.
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He Didn't Quit Smoking-To prove A Point

Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later it would kill him and leave a wife and children alone. In his last weeks, he set out with a message for young people. He never quit smoking and neither did his family that watched him die.

one mans storya better ending quiting story
group of stories A group of stories from about.com of peoples quiting stories.
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Quit Smoking to Get NHS Benefits ?

According to a article in The Guardian-Smokers could be required to quit in exchange for NHS rights British Prime Minister Brown is to make a speech on preventive care later this month. a bill of rights for patients which will establish the "rights and responsibilities associated with an entitlement to NHS(national health service) care" with a debate on whether patients should be expected to play their own part in reducing their burden on the health service. In other words not smokng or being obese.
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