Nottinghamshire Inhabitants Quit Smoking

243 Nottinghamshire residents have pledged to quit smoking, with the support of the NHS Stop Smoking Service New Leaf during October as part of the first ever national mass quit attempt called Stoptober. The campaign has been supported locally by NHS Nottinghamshire County and Nottinghamshire County Council. New Leaf is the specialist stop smoking service commissioned by NHS Nottinghamshire County to provide advice and support to people who want to kick the smoking habit.

Tobacco Users in Midland County

Smoking not only causes complicated health problems but can also take a toll on your pocketbook and that of your employer. After a shocking study, Midland County officials are looking at ways to cut down their insurance costs by the help of its employees changing their unhealthy habits. According to Midland County officials, 80 percent of Texas medical claims stem from tobacco usage and obesity. Now county leaders are encouraging their employees to quit smoking, if they don't, they are going to have to pay up.

Taxes Don't Make People Quit Smoking

A common tool for public officials to curb Beratt cigarette smoking rates is to raise taxes on each pack, but new research suggests that doesn’t always work.

Economic researchers at Concordia University showed that higher taxes prompted lower- and middle-class older smokers to quit the habit, but had little effect on wealthier smokers and people between the ages of 25 and 44.

“Contrary to most studies, we found the middle-aged group, which constitutes the largest fraction of smokers in our sample, is largely unresponsive to taxes,” the researchers said in a statement. “While cigarette taxes remain popular with policy-makers as a key anti-smoking measure, their effectiveness largely depends on how people respond to them.”