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    Jul 27, 2012 |Story| KDAF-LTV

  1. Post Chest Pain or Heart Attack: Nicotine Replacement Therapy safe to quit smoking

    Frank Rosner has a certain spring in his step these days--because he has a new lease on life.
    CW33 NEWS
    Frank Rosner has a certain spring in his step these days--because he has a new lease on life. To say he used to smoke is an understatement. "Only for about 35, 45 years,” Frank said. “I tried to quit and could not do it." Not until last...

    Tags: High Blood Pressure, Chest, Cardiologists, Heart Attack

    2. Aug 3, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  2. Cigarette use down, other tobacco up, CDC says

     
      Cigarette consumption has gone down since 2008, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But other tobacco use has gone up. That includes use of pipe tobacco for roll-you-own cigarettes and cigarette-like cigars, the agency...

    Tags: U.S. Department of the Treasury, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Tobacco Products, McAfee, Inc., Disease Prevention

    3. Aug 5, 2012 |Column| Hartford Courant

  3. Battling Her Lung Cancer And Everyone Else's

    The Hartford Courant
    The stigma surrounding lung cancer bothers Diane Legg. "Most often the first question asked is, 'Did you smoke?'" she said. "No other disease, nobody asks such an in-your-face question. Most people who have a heart attack, they don't ask if they smoked....

    Tags: Lung Cancer, Human Interest, Demographics, American Lung Association, Physical Fitness and Exercise

    4. Aug 9, 2012 |Story| Orlando Sentinel

  4. Theater review: "Sordid Lives" at Theatre Downtown

    People are people, the platitude goes, and in Del Shores' comedy <i>Sordid Lives</i>, we peer into a family similar to many: Sisters squabble, an aunt struggles to quit smoking, a gay son worries about coming out. Oh, there is a gay-transvestite brother locked in a mental institution who has spent 20 years impersonating country-music singers, but more on him in a moment. When Theatre Downtown's production emphasizes the humanity and relationships of these addled folk, the laughs land squarely and meaningfully. When things wander into clowning, the laughs still come sporadically but are a lot more hollow. Shores split his play into four distinct scenes, and things get off to a rousing start as small-town Texas resident Sissy Hickey (Pam Baumann) worries about burying her recently deceased sister while trying to quit smoking by snapping herself with a rubber band. "It's called behavioral modifi... something," she sputters to a friend on the phone. Things immediately get awkward as Noleta (Peri Hope) drops by with a tuna-noodle casserole. It's the kind of small town, by the way, where name dropping means pointing out the canned soup in the casserole comes from Campbells and the potato chips are Lays. In other words, everyone knows everyone else's business. And in this case, the sordid business at hand is the fact Sissy's dearly departed sister died in a motel room with Noleta's husband. The set, by James Zelley, immediately evokes small-town life as Sissy tidies up stray paper plates, and fusses around a buffet of fried chicken and potato salad from well-meaning neighbors. And Baumann lets her words rush out faster and faster as we see her brain just <i>gasping</i> for a cigarette while she tries to keep the peace between her nieces, the uptight Latrelle (Katrina Tharin) and easy-going LaVonda (Marion Marsh). The play wobbles in its middle section, however, as the pace seems to slow and some actors veer toward caricature. An extended bit in which male characters are forced to dress in drag takes too long to get to its payoff (in part because Shores' script becomes repetitive). And in coke-snorting, fame-seeking Dr. Eve Bolinger, the performance by Jamie Lyn Hawkins goes so over the top that it's out of balance with Doug Boarman-Shorts, underplaying the outrageousness of Brother Boy, that drag-wearing mental patient who feels just fine dressed as Tammy Wynette, thank you. The production, directed by Fran and Frank Hilgenberg, gets its groove back in the final scene: a funeral in which family secrets are revealed, old hurts are healed, and maybe -- just maybe -- a few lessons are learned. As a framing device, Adam Del Medico opens each scene as closeted Ty, the youngest member of the family, talking about his life with his unseen therapist. Wide-eyed, Del Medico imbues each of his monologues with a growing sense of confidence and optimism, smile getting bigger and speech getting faster as he works up the nerve to be true to himself. He's the perfect example of how characters don't have to be larger or louder than life to draw laughs -- just being a messed-up human from a messed-up family in a messed-up town can be funny enough. That's something that Shores knew, and when Theatre Downtown's production finds those human moments, the humor hits both the funnybone and the heart.
    Orlando Sentinel theater critic
    People are people, the platitude goes, and in Del Shores' comedy Sordid Lives, we peer into a family similar to many: Sisters squabble, an aunt struggles to quit smoking, a gay son worries about coming out. Oh, there is a gay-transvestite brother locked...

    Tags: Entertainment, Theater Downtown, Music, Tammy Wynette, Minority Groups

    5. Aug 14, 2012 |Story| Reuters

  5. Insight: What if baby boomers don't live forever?

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What if the generation that once rocked out to The Who's "hope I die before I get old" line actually does?
    Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What if the generation that once rocked out to The Who's "hope I die before I get old" line actually does? Most retirement plans and federal budget projections assume baby boomers -- those Americans born between 1946 and 1964 --...

    Tags: Central Intelligence Agency, Prudential Financial Incorporated, Keith Moon, Teachers, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

    6. Jun 27, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  6. Mayo Clinic Medical Edge: Brain aneurysms don't always require treatment

    Premium Health News Service
    DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What causes a brain aneurysm? Are there any warning signs? How is a brain aneurysm treated? ANSWER: A brain aneurysm is small, round outpouching of an artery in the brain that develops due to thinning of the blood vessel wall. A brain...

    Tags: Genes and Chromosomes, Chicago Transit Authority, Groin, Hospitals and Clinics, Brain

    7. Jul 1, 2012 |Story| Herald Mail

  7. Art Callaham: Let's talk stadium

    Even though I promised lots of people that I was going to remain mostly silent about stadium issues here in Hagerstown, one trip to see the O’s play the Nats in Baltimore hooked me again. My wife says this is worse than all those times I quit...

    Tags: Politics, Washington Nationals, Inner Harbor, Baseball, Babe Ruth

    8. Jul 11, 2012 |Story| Tribune Media Services

  8. EatingWell: Finding better health with an anti-inflammatory diet

    Premium Health News Service
    Marisa Zeppieri-Caruana, 34, didn't look at all sick when she found out. "I was in amazing shape. I was a happy, busy, thin 23-year-old when I started getting strange fevers and feeling extremely tired. My doctor ordered some blood work and that's when I...

    Tags: Blood, Symptoms, Overweight, Genes and Chromosomes, Chronic Inflammation

    9. Jul 9, 2012 |Story| Baltimore Sun

  9. Time for the feds to raise the cigarette tax

    At $2 per pack, Maryland has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation &mdash; and has reaped considerable benefits from it. With every tobacco tax increase over the last 13 years, smoking rates in the state have declined, not only among children but with adults, too.
    At $2 per pack, Maryland has one of the highest cigarette taxes in the nation — and has reaped considerable benefits from it. With every tobacco tax increase over the last 13 years, smoking rates in the state have declined, not only among children...

    Tags: Prices, Politics, Health, Social Security, Cancer

    10. Jun 13, 2012 |Story| WPMT-LTV

  10. York Housing Authority Proposes Smoking Ban; Community Members have Mixed Feelings

    A proposed smoking ban at York Housing Authority building, including apartments, has some residents on edge.&nbsp; After learning about smoking statistics as they relate to preventable diseases, the Authority decided to draft a smoking ban policy.&nbsp; The policy prohibits anyone from smoking in Housing Authority buildings.&nbsp; Those who choose to smoke must be at least 25 feet from any entrance, window, or public sidewalk.
    A proposed smoking ban at York Housing Authority building, including apartments, has some residents on edge.  After learning about smoking statistics as they relate to preventable diseases, the Authority decided to draft a smoking ban policy.  The...

    Tags: Civil Laws, Politics, Laws, Housing and Urban Planning, Interior Policy

    11. Jun 13, 2012 |Column| WXIN-LTV

  11. Local bar owners, patrons file lawsuit against city for smoking ban ordinance

    A dozen Indianapolis bars have consolidated individual lawsuits into one challenge in federal court against the city's new smoking ban.
    A dozen Indianapolis bars have consolidated individual lawsuits into one challenge in federal court against the city's new smoking ban. In less than two weeks, bar owners claim business is down and employees have been laid off. "Our business has been...

    Tags: Civil Laws, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Laws, Trials

    12. Jun 14, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. Quinn signs Medicaid cuts, cigarette tax hike

    Gov. Pat Quinn signed a package of bills into law Thursday that will slash health care coverage for the poor and hike cigarette taxes by $1-a-pack to help pay for the struggling Medicaid program.
    Tribune reporter
    Gov. Pat Quinn signed a package of bills into law Thursday that will slash health care coverage for the poor and hike cigarette taxes by $1-a-pack to help pay for the struggling Medicaid program.   The $1.6 billion in cuts to the program come amid the...

    Tags: Pat Quinn, Health, Drugs and Medicines, Health Insurance, Medicaid

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