Word: stopping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...today is also the 23rd Great American Smokeout. Today, all across the nation, the American Cancer Society (ACS) is sponsoring events to encourage smokers to stop smoking, at least for 24 hours, and see how it makes them feel. "Prove to yourself if you can quit for one day, you can quit for a lifetime," say the advertisements. Through a variety of programs, from nicotine patches to counseling, the ACS and its partner within the federal government, a branch of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), are working to make today the first day of a better...
...smokers, one day a year isn't so bad to have to confront the truth: cigarettes kill. "Probably the group with the least amount of people wanting to stop smoking are the teenage and young adult smokers, and that is disturbing for all of us," says Jim R. Giebfried, director of cessation programs in Massachusetts for the American Cancer Society and the Smoker's Quit Line (1-800-TRY-TO-STOP). "Very often college students are in a location where they may be affected by other smokers, like at parties," said Giebfried, a graduate of the Harvard School of Public...
...individual often picks up those cigarettes and either uses them or passes them around at school." He compared the ethical responsibility to be vigilant on cigarettes at home to the laws that regulate that parents lock up their firearms. That way, even if you or your parents don't stop smoking, you can at least stop your younger siblings from starting...
...their work ethic," she says. They never stop working on the field. You almost feel like you're giving up and quitting if you're not working...
...Sony chief Idei Nobuyuki pulled out every conceivable stop in his tightly scripted two-hour speech, starting with a five-minute intro from Stuart Little, the animated mouse who stars in Sony's forthcoming answer to "Toy Story." Idei also showed off a slew of new gadgets demonstrating Sony's new focus on "the power of hardware in a networked world," including the MS Walkman, a tiny portable device that plays digital music stored on Sony's 64-megabyte Memory Sticks (hence the MS), and a digital video version of the rewritable MiniDisc that lets you perform tricky cuts using...