Quiting with acupuncture

Haseltine is describing what it was like the last yime she examined to quit smoking. She's been smoking for almost 33 years.

"I adored smoking. I smoked not less than a pack a day," Betty said.

She was ready to try to quit encore. Wanting to avoid patches, gums or chemicals she went original, despite acupuncture. The art of place needles into the body, changing the pathways of energy.

"We are trying to change the energy flows of the body. With the needles, I am not actually putting putting energy in or talking energy out. I am barely changing the ritual your body uses it," Kevin Campopiano, Acupuncturist said.

Ohio Puts Expanded Prison Smoking Ban Forward Hold

Lawmakers benefit from temporarily snuffed out the state's plan to put into action a widespread smoking prohibit in prisons by March.

A legislative rule-making committee was scheduled to approve the plan last week although postponed a vote up till below this month.

Committee chairman Tom Niehaus, a state senator from New Richmond in southwest Ohio, says lawmakers question whether the state had the authority to put the prohibit in placement.

Niehaus says state law bans smoking in some prisons but it's not absolute how the law compromises despite other correctional facilities.

The prison system argues that banning smoking will reduce health care costs for inmates. The state plans to move ahead despite the planned contain in March.

The association representing prison guards want assurances its employees will be offered the same types of anti-smoking programs available to inmates.

Stop smoking or get beaten up!

The block forth smoking is in placement at Kolkata's SSKM hospital as are messages against spitting here furthermore there. Although regardless of the offences continuing, doctors at the hospital enjoy put up posters saying offenders will henceforth be fairly beaten up.

"It is not our intention that we start beating up people. While we wanted to send a cultural shock. A cultural shock therapy can do wonders in behavourial modifications if the issue of smoking comes or when the issue of spitting comes," said Dr Abhijit Chowdhury, SSKM hospital.

Dr Anbumani Ramadoss can be pleased regardless of the initiative, while clients to the hospital are not even amused though they realise the threat of physical punishment is no more than that - a threat. .

"The message could take advantage of been sent out differently.

Lawmaker: Block smoking at state park beaches

John Nutting, D-Leeds, wants to prohibit smoking forward beaches in Maine's state parks.

Some of my constituents called me, saying they're tired of not life span able to put their offspring down along the beach because they crawl on along with put cigarette butts in their mouths," Nutting said. Conjointly, at some of the big beaches forward the coast, people are packed in as tightly as if you were sitting in an auditorium, though you may hardly smoke away. Why should you go sit forth a beach if three feet away someone is smoking a cigar?"

Beaches at Reid State Park and Popham Beach State Park are remarkably crowded during the summer months, Nutting said. I would say that a summer weekend at Reid State Park is probably the peak arrondissement in the whole state for people to be subjected to secondhand smoke," he said.

Smoking ban may get more strict

Salina city commissioners Monday will get their first glimpse at a Clean Indoor Ozone Regulation that would restrain smoking inside virtually all public places.

"It's a big policy question together with I think will be a difficult one for the endowment," City Manager Jason Gage said. "It causes you to weigh the public health benefit of the ruling versus the impact it has along private property."

The contribution meets at 4 p.m. Monday in Room 107 of the City-County Building.

Public forums along the proposed regulation utilize been scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Jan. 15 moreover Jan. 20. During those forums, city staff will outline the ruling, answer questions moreover take public comments, Gage said.

The aid will meet reiteratively to discuss the regulation Jan. 26.

Salina's current smoking code was passed in 2002 by voters.

Smoking ban calls for settlement

A closed-off well ventilated smoking section could be an option, or an outside area for smokers, like myself, would be OK. I mostly eat at home as well as I mostly drink at home so this ban has no effect on me, but it does affect two industries that smokers frequent. A ban in some places, yes, but a ban in greatest is not a good aim. Fumes from the gas pumps causes health risks too, Try banning that including see how far it gets! How approximately we ban these criminals that are robbing together with stealing the things we work hard for?

Casino smoking facing new fire

The Indiana Campaign for Smokefree Air released the Purdue University study to bolster its push for a smoking ban in public places.

The average level of indoor air pollution at the 11 sites was nearly five times higher than the limit considered healthy by the Environmental Protection Agency, according to Purdue professor Neil Zimmerman.

Casino air was about 14 times dirtier than outdoor air near the gambling centers, Zimmerman said.

The air on average was dirtier than EPA limits even in nonsmoking areas within casinos, Zimmerman said.

State Rep. Charlie Brown, D-Gary, has again introduced a bill that would institute a comprehensive smoking ban in all public places.

Brown said he would be hard-pressed to agree to a ban that would exempt casinos or bars from the ban.