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8

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A DAUGHTER’S LESSONS FROM HER OWN PUFF DADDY

Philip Morris has acknowledged the link from cigarette smoking to lung cancer, heart disease and emphysema. “There is no ‘safe’ cigarette,” says the company’s Internet site. “Smoking is addictive.” At last! I’ve always looked for someone to blame for my father’s youthful death three decades ago. But now that Nicorette ads have replaced the Winston jingles of my childhood, I realize the executives’ near-admission of guilt bears no relationship to my childhood pain or suffering. You could map Dad’s movements by the trail of menthol stubs. A glass ashtray overflowed next to the newspaper on his nightstand. Embers dropped from the ceramic dish, contoured with cigarette- nesting concavities, beside the paperbacks on his reading table. Dad filled a beanbag ashtray in the breakfast nook and another in the bathroom. Filters tumbled from the pullout compartment of his Mercury and spilled onto the bench seat.
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Friedman, Lyssa

Full Text: The Oregonian 1999 Oct 30

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May
8

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Estimates of smoking and related behaviour in an immigrant Lebanese community: Does survey method matter?

The prevalence of smoking, stage-of-change and GP advice to quit in the Sydney Lebanese community and whether these findings varied by survey method is estimated. Three methods were used in separate surveys of persons bon in Lebanon living in three postcode areas of Sydney in 1997: 1. telephone interviews using sampling from the electronic White Pages, 2. personal interviews of a household member selected using cluster sampling, and 3. a mailed survey using an electoral roll sample. Smoking prevalence was consistent across the three methods, with male smoking averaging 49% and female smoking 29%. About two-thirds of smoking respondents across each of the survey methods had no plans for quitting.
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Full Text: Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health Oct 1999

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May
7

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Despite ‘Insider’ Knowledge, It’s Hard to Kick the Habit; Premiere * Stars turn out–and light up–for Michael Mann’s film about a tobacco industry whistle-blower.

At the reception immediately following the premiere screening of “The Insider”–writer-director Michael Mann’s movie about tobacco company executive turned whistle-blower Jeffrey Wigand–a well- dressed guest queried, “So where are all the movie stars?” “They’re all outside on the patio smoking,” answered a Disney executive. (The culprits: Martin Landau, Russell Crowe, Amanda Plummer.)
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CRAUGHWELL, KATHLEEN

Full Text: Los Angeles Times 1999 Oct 30

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May
7

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Personal benevolence, personal satisfaction

The Association of Operating Room Nurses Foundation cannot do its work without the personel benevolence of nurses. Some creative methods of donating are explained.
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Ball, Kay

Full Text: Association of Operating Room Nurses. AORN Journal Oct 1999

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May
6

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Clean and sober: George Jones back from crash with new songs, habits

He also has some strong opinions about making a shrine of the 1999 Lexus LX470 SUV he crashed. A Nashville radio station displayed it along a busy highway over the July 4 holiday as a deterrent to drinking and driving, and a Nashville doctor has bought the vehicle with the intention of leasing it for display. Still, [George Jones] has not taken the accident lightly. “I even quit smoking and drinking coffee and everything else,” he said. “I used to have two cups of coffee in the morning. Now I’ve lost a taste for it. I have a bowl of cereal in place of coffee.” Jones also has some new music in the marketplace, a CD called Cold Hard Truth, on Asylum Records. He had done everything except the overdubbing when the accident occurred. Producer Keith Stegall pulled the project together without overdubs, or re-sung phrases.
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Full Text: The Gazette 1999 Oct 30

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May
6

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The probability of risk

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Hoffbuhr, Jack W

Full Text: American Water Works Association. Journal Oct 1999

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May
5

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To Your Health Cholesterol: Don’t take it to heart

When his wife jokingly threatened to draw his blood herself in the dead of night, Yoshi queued up on schedule for his annual company health checkup. He was surprised to find his blood cholesterol was high: 253 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dl). “But I feel fine!” Cholesterol forms part of all animal cell membranes, helps form steroid hormones and bile acids, and insulates nerves. In spite of its bad reputation, cholesterol is essential–80 percent is actually made in the liver. Problems arise from having too much of a good thing. Excessive LDLs cause cholesterol to be deposited in plaques in the arteries of the heart. Plaques can eventually block circulation (heart attack) or break free (possible stroke). HDLs are the arterial Coast Guards, picking up stray cholesterol and returning it to the liver. LDLs are bad, HDLs are good.
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Full Text: The Daily Yomiuri 1999 Oct 30

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5

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Impact of combined weight-control and smoking-cessation interventions on body weight: Review of the literature

Varner reviews existing research on weight control interventions that have been offered in conjunction with smoking-cessation programs.
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Varner, Lisa Marie

Full Text: American Dietetic Association. Journal of the American Dietetic Association Oct 1999

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May
4

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MEET THE HEART MONITORS Series: CHANGE OF HEART — One in a continuing series to raise awareness aboutheart disease, the nation’s No. 1 killer.

As a nurse, Theresa White knows smoking can damage her coronary arteries andlead to a heart attack. Yet, as someone who has smoked since age 14, she knowshow difficult it is to quit. White, who lit her first cigarette “to be cool,” has tried a smokingcessation program at Grand View Hospital as well as the nicotine patch.However, the longest she has abstained from Marlboro Lights is five days.
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Full Text: Morning Call 1999 Oct 31

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4

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Stone learning life’s lessons firsthand

Doug Stone and a herd of other country music stars will be singing for a good cause Oct. 7 at the Dream Day Concert for St. Jude at the LSU Assembly Center. Stone has had many ups and downs. A country star by 1990, his personal and professional lives went downhill again and again in the years that followed. The Georgia native had quadruple heart bypass surgery in 1992. That was nothing, though, compared to a suite of calamities that hit him in 1995, including a heart attack, a divorce, a break with his manager and the loss of his voice. Stone also suffered from sleep deprivation-induced depression and then had a mild stroke in 1996. For a singer, of course, the loss of one’s voice was especially scary. “It’s just like a gunslinger with no hands,” Stone said. “I couldn’t sing at all. Though only he could hear his vocal problem at first, audiences eventually heard it, too. “For a while it was kind of like being on stage naked and everybody laughing at you,” Stone said. “It was terrible. As a matter of fact, I had two people trying to sue me over it. When you’re up, you’re up and everybody loves you. When you’re down, you’re down and everybody kicks your ass.”During the time Stone thought he might not sing again, he tried other avenues of the music business, including getting record deals for other singers, managing and record producing. “They’re like the rest of the music business,” he said. “It’s just hard to get into. I even considered going back to diesel mechanics, because that’s all I knew, other than this.” Although Stone noticed his vocal troubles as early as 1992, doctors weren’t able to diagnose the problem until 1995, the year a polyp was removed from the singer’s soft palate. “So when they did that, I quit smoking and I’ve been quit ever since,” Stone said.
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Wirt, John

Full Text: Advocate 1999 Oct 01

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