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Use scare tactics to dissuade smokers
A leading cause of preventable death in United States has unfortunately become an addicting habit for many people all over the nation. This extremely harmful habit is smoking tobacco, known as cigarettes. Smoking causes many health problems, such as...Tags: New York, Cancer, Washington, DC, Health, Heart Disease
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GCC clamps down on campus smoking
A policy that advocates said will push second-hand smoke away from essential meeting places at Glendale Community College was approved Monday by the Board of Trustees. While Glendale already has one of the most restrictive public outdoor smoking...Tags: Politics, Colleges and Universities, Human Rights
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Two men sentenced in cigarette fraud scheme
Two Glendale men were sentenced on Monday to 366 days in federal prison for their roles in cigarette trafficking scheme. Grigor Chivitchian, 57, and Sarkis Mkrtchyan, 47, were also ordered to pay $280,000 in restitution to the state. The two men pleaded...Tags: Prisons, Crimes, Crime, Law and Justice, State Budgets, Politics
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Bill could help smokers kick the habit
Smokers in Glendale, which has one of the highest smoking rates in Los Angeles County, could gain free access to tools to help them quit smoking under a bill passed by state legislators Tuesday. County officials and health care representatives gathered...Tags: Quitting Smoking, Los Angeles, Health Treatments, Laws, Crime, Law and Justice
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On Campus At GCC: Alcohol/drug studies summit planned
Students in the Alcohol/Drug Studies program and the Alcohol/Drug Studies Club are sponsoring "Addiction Summit 2010: Counselors, Clinicians and Community" from 5:30 to 10 p.m. Sept. 29. The event will feature guest speakers and focuses on the treatment...Tags: Substance Abuse, Adult Education, Facebook, Education, Psychologists
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A Balcony View: Struggling with emancipation
Limits. We all have them. For instance, this weekend we all got to see what our own personal tolerance for heat was. I already knew mine. Let's just say I prefer a more "polar ice cap" climate.
And even though it was interesting to see what it feels...Tags: Trips and Vacations, Cancer, Family Vacations, Pasadena (Los Angeles, California), Travel
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Health care coordination urged
GLENDALE — Better coordination of health and social services available in Glendale is a top priority to better battle local health issues, a group of community leaders said Wednesday. Several dozen representatives from local health-care and...Tags: Christianity, Los Angeles, Medical Services, Social Services, Lungs and Airways
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Hospitals ban smoking
Come Jan. 1, there will be no butts about it at Glendale's two largest hospitals. Glendale Memorial Hospital and Health Center and Glendale Adventist Medical Center will become smoke-free in the new year. Ashtrays will be gone, "no smoking" signs will be...Tags: Cancer, Career and Workplace, Diabetes, Politics, University of Southern California
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Editorial: Smoking is being filtered out
Glendale has come a long way down the path of cessation, of smoking that is. In a city that once seemed destined to remain an also-ran in the race by local governments to restrict secondhand smoke, Glendale has rebounded to the head of the pack. Now,...Tags: Teen-agers, Politics, Human Rights, Local Government
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GCC may tighten smoking restrictions
NORTHEAST GLENDALE — Smoking at Glendale Community College could soon become more restrictive as officials try to strike what they say is a balance between cutting down on secondhand smoke and not forcing students to go off the crowded campus to...Tags: Education, Politics, Colleges and Universities, Human Rights
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Recovery Weekends help sober fight new enemy: boredom
He was once a proud member of the "Cocaine Cowboys" —nickname by which the most indulgent players on the hard-partying Dallas Cowboys football team were known in the early 1990s. And throughout his entire adult life, Lincoln Coleman lived up to...
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Cancer risk of eating meat wildly overstated
It is irresponsible to claim, as the letter writer from Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) does, that eating meat is equivalent to smoking cigarettes ("Unhealthful foods kill more Americans every year than tobacco," May 13). In...Tags: Cancer, Lung Cancer, Abusive Behavior, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
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