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1) Roizen and Oz: Activity curbs pounds (Knoxville News Sentinel)Q: I quit smoking for two years, but in the process I gained 30 pounds - and I hate it. I've started smoking again in hopes I can lose the weight. I know it's not good for me. I'm 61, a little under 5 feet tall, weigh 138 pounds and hate how I look. Can you help me?

2) Free quit smoking classes offered (Battle Creek Enquirer)Battle Creek Health System and the American Cancer Society will be providing free smoking cessation classes in October for people considering quitting or having problems staying quit.

3) Program offered on how to help people quit smoking (The Journal Times)KENOSHA ? The Kenosha County Tobacco Free Coalition and Racine on the Lake Tobacco Free Coalition are offering the free program, ?Helping People Quit: Why Treating Tobacco Dependence Should Be Part of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Programs,? from 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Thursday in the Madrigrano Conference Center at Gateway Technical College, 3520 30th Ave., Kenosha.

4) Altria to Purchase Snuff Maker UST for $10.3 Billion (Update1) (Bloomberg.com)Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Altria Group Inc., the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, agreed to buy UST Inc. for $10.3 billion to become the largest U.S. producer of smokeless tobacco.

5) Kicking the habit through activity (The Post and Courier)I quit smoking for two years, but in the process, I gained 30 pounds ? and I hate it. I've started smoking again in hopes I can lose the weight. I know it's not good for me. I'm 61, a little under 5 feet tall, weigh 138 pounds and hate how I look. Can you help me? ? Janet, Sonora, Calif.

6) Altria Group to Buy Snuff Maker UST for $10.3 Billion in Cash (Bloomberg.com)Sept. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Altria Group Inc., the maker of Marlboro cigarettes, agreed to buy UST Inc., the largest U.S. producer of snuff, for $10.3 billion.

7) Quit-smoking class begins Wednesday (Northwest Herald)CRYSTAL LAKE ? For less than the cost of a carton of cigarettes, a McHenry County Department of Health class says it can help you quit smoking.

8) Lung Cancer Risk Models Created For Specific Populations, Prediction Refined (Medical News Today)Lung cancer risk prediction models are enhanced by taking into account risk factors by race and by measuring DNA repair capacity, according to research teams led by epidemiologists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in two complementary papers appearing in the September issue of Cancer Prevention Research.

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