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Finnish bosses to help kick the habit .
The anti-smoking campaign in Finland is continuing apace with municipal employers and companies beefing up their smoke-free workplace policies. Seinäjoki, Vaasa and Helsinki are in the process of making their campuses completely tobacco-free, while Nokia, Ylöjarvi and Espoo have already prohibited the practice.
So determined are employers to stub-out that they have even taken to covering the costs of nicotine replacement therapies, with cash bonuses being offered in some cases where the habit has been successfully kicked.
City Kicks Off New Anti-Smoking Campaign - NY1.com
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The city has released another anti-smoking advertisement campaign.
It's called "Reverse the Damage" and while it highlights the dangers of smoking, it shows there is hope for those who quit.
The ads can be seen on television and in print, and will appear on subway and bus shelters across the city.
BBC News - Cuba: The smoker's paradise .
The United States famously takes a very fundamentalist attitude to smoking in public.
Want to light up in a restaurant or a bar in Manhattan? Forget it.
How about a stealthy cigarette on the pavement outside our office in Washington? No way.
They will call the cops. The people who do smoke are forced to huddle in underground garages and behind garbage bins as if they were doing crack cocaine.
For a very casual and occasional smoker like me the ostracism has been enough to make me quit for good. Until, that is, I went to Havana.
‘Smokers Are Supposed to Quit’ - Laugh Lines Blog - NYTimes.com.
Wednesday night on “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” on NBC: Hey, today is No Smoking Day, where smokers are supposed to quit cigarettes for the day. Or as Sasha and Malia call it, “Daddy’s in a Really Bad Mood Day.”
Vaccine treats nicotine addiction.
Smokers in the Omaha/Council Bluffs area who want to quit are needed to test out a new nicotine-busting drug. Mary Carlson, a nurse practitioner at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, says they’re experimenting with a different way of treating nicotine addiction — through a vaccine.
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