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Tax hike gives smokers a new reason to quit
MASON CITY - The 1 dollar a pack hike in the cigarette tax is convincing many North Iowans that now is the time to quit smoking. The tax increase, signed into law March 15 by Gov. Chet Culver, took effect Friday. 'I ran out of cigarettes Friday morning and have not bought a pack since', said 40-year-old Jeff Lentz of Plymouth. 'I was ready anyway, but the cigarette tax kind of put the final straw on it'. A smoker since the age of 18, Lentz smoked a pack a day. And, at a reported 5.85 dollars for a generic brand of smokes, that is a pretty expensive habit.
'People who are going to smoke are going to smoke anyway,' Lentz said. 'Those who are going to quit, this is the thing that is going to take them out'. Lentz, who is quitting cold turkey, said 'it is all mind-set'. 'The worst time is usually in the morning and I just keep moving'. Since the tax went into effect, more than 150 smokers have contacted Quitline Iowa, up from 70 during the same period a year ago, according to figures provided by the cessation program.Pam Erickson, a tobacco specialist with the Smoke-Free Families program of North Iowa Community Action Organization, said her office has been fielding a lot more calls since the new tax went into effect. 'We’ve had a huge influx of calls, tons of questions about how to enroll in the program', Erickson said.
It's always pleasing when someone not only conforms to their stereotype, but exceeds it in a manner you could never have predicted. Keith Richard's claims that he snorted the ashes of his own father, Bert, made for some wonderful headlines. The only disappointment, on reading the NME scoop, was that the Stones guitarist hadn't hoovered up his pot'n'pan by mistake, in some farcical hedonist frenzy, but had done so in a more sober manner, cutting him with cocaine.
Too good to be true, apparently - Richards has come out and denied it all; what he really did was plant his dad with an oak tree. He doesn't snort anything these days, anyway. The NME stand by their story.
Keef was probably just pissing about. But if it is true, he shouldn't be ashamed - and we shouldn't dismiss his act as mindless rock'n'rollery.
NASA Selects Telenor Satellite Services and Verso Technologies for Satellite Communications Modernization; Telenor Partners with Verso Technologies to Provide Digital Satellite Communications Equipment and Services for All of NASA's Shuttle Trans Atlantic Landing Sites Business Editors/Technology Editors ROCKVILLE, Md. & ATLANTA -(BUSINESS WIRE) March 27, 2007-Telenor Satellite Services, a subsidiary of Telenor of Norway (Oslo Stock Exchange:TEL and NASDAQ:TELN), and Verso Technologies (NASDAQ:VRSO) announced today that they have been selected by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide digital voice and data satellite communications equipment and service to all of its Trans Atlantic Landing Sites. The Trans Atlantic Landing Sites are used as emergency landing locations for the Space Shuttle during launch.
Hypnotherapy to benefit pub smokers
A clinical hypnotherapist is touring north Sheffield pubs to help groups of local people quit smoking before the smoking ban on July 1.From July 1 smoking in all indoor public places will be banned. Pubs, restaurants, nightclubs and private members' clubs will feel the biggest impact of the ban.Wayne Norton, a clinical hypnotherapist from Lodge Moor, is holding a series of group hypnotherapy sessions at pubs in the north Sheffield area, inspired to help people quit smoking by the death of his father from lung cancer.Wayne said: I lost my father to lung cancer five years ago and I dont want to see people suffer because of it, I want to help people stop smoking. I cant stop anyone from smoking on my own; they have to want to stop. I can put positive suggestions in their mind.I liken hypnotherapy to a child climbing a wall.
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