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40 Amazing Stop Smoking Ads[ Posted in: Stop Smoking, Quit Smoking, Cigarette Smoking, Reasons To Quit Smoking on November 23rd, 2009 | ] Check out these 40 amazing and very creative Stop Smoking Ads here What do you think?
2 Sisters’ Powerful Quit Smoking Story[ Posted in: Second Hand Smoke, Cigarette Smoking, Smoking Women, Secondhand Smoke on November 23rd, 2009 | ] "Both of my parents were smokers and both of them eventually died from it, but, since my mother was, throughout my childhood until I was 16 years old, an old-fashioned 1950’s style "stay at home" mom, my strongest memories, the ones forged in early childhood, are of her and her smoking more than of my father’s. Bound up in my earliest memories of my mother - right along with the sound of her voice reading or singing to me - is the smell of cigarette smoke. It is said that the sense of smell is more evocative than any other sense, more compelling, more associative, more able to create a memory image. I know this is true because the memory of my mother is instantly, vividly and inexorably evoked for me by the smell - tobacco smoke mixed with a slight hint of fragrance from the Avon cosmetics she used - which permeated her skin, her hair, her clothes, her bedroom, her books, her house and her very life from as far back as I can remember. Possibly even before, because the other sense which is considered to be strongly associative is the sense of taste and, since I was breast fed for the first few months of my life, (though, because my mother stopped producing milk when I was 8 months old, probably because of her smoking, I was given a bottle which I promptly rejected and began sucking my thumb - a habit which continued throughout my life until I started smoking!) I probably absorbed the taste of nicotine from her very body as an infant and so, when I tried smoking for the first time, the taste and the sensation instantly found a very old neural pathway and dug in"… Read the entire powerful story here
Apple Won’t Repair Macs If Owners Are Smokers[ Posted in: Second Hand Smoke, Quit Smoking, Cigarette Smoking, Secondhand Smoke on November 23rd, 2009 | ] If smoking wasn’t bad enough for you already, it looks like there may be another good reason to quit smoking, as it seems that Apple have refused to repair a broken Mac because it shows signs of smoke. According to one Mac user who took his Mac in for repair, Apple refused to repair it because it showed signs of cigarette smoke inside, which Apple said was a biohazard, and therefore Apple employees couldn’t repair it as it could be hazardous to their health. Apple’s Applecare warranty doesn’t specify that it wont repair machines which show the presence of nicotine of or smoke, but if someone challenges it Apple could possibly fall back on a clause in the Applecare warranty which covers ‘extreme environment’. It will be interesting to see how this turns out, and if Apple ends up fixing any of these machines in the future.
Smoking Ban in Rental Cars - Reminder for Thanksgiving Travel[ Posted in: Second Hand Smoke, Cigarette Smoking, Smoking Ban, Secondhand Smoke on November 23rd, 2009 | ] Smoking bans are spreading from planes, trains and buses to another from of transit: rental cars Beginning Oct. 1, Avis and Budget became the first major rental-car companies to ban smoking in their entire North American fleets and to impose a cleaning fee of up to $250 on customers who smoke in the cars. "The No. 1 request we get is for a smoke-free car," says John Barrows, spokesman of the Avis Budget Group, the parent company. He says a common customer complaint is a car that smells of smoke, adding, "We’re addressing both concerns." Secondhand smoke is significantly more concentrated in cars than it is in bars, restaurants and other public places, according to a study released last month by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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