Smoking NewsNews on Smoking continually updated from thousands of sources around the net.Impact of cigarette tax tripling uncertain- June 29, 2008 Tennessee officials say 10 months is not enough time to measure the health impact of tripling the cigarette tax but it has some smokers buying in other states.http://www.topix.net/health/smoking/2008/06/impact-of-cigarette-tax-tripling-uncertain?fro... Quarter of a million quit cigs thanks to smoking ban- June 28, 2008 Healthy Living Team from Middlesbrough Council encourage people to give up smoking.http://www.topix.net/health/smoking/2008/06/quarter-of-a-million-quit-cigs-thanks-to-smoki... Smoking Man Zapped By Lightning- June 28, 2008 A Florida man said it felt like he stuck a fork in an outlet when lightning struck him while he was holding a cigarette out the window of an apartment.http://www.topix.net/health/smoking/2008/06/smoking-man-zapped-by-lightning?fromrss=1 Goa to withdraw textbook with smoking general's photo- June 28, 2008 After a weeklong campaign by anti-tobacco activists, the Goa government Thursday said it would withdraw a social sciences textbook which has a photograph of a late French general smoking a cigarette.http://www.topix.net/health/smoking/2008/06/goa-to-withdraw-textbook-with-smoking-generals... |