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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Mark LaFlamme

Smoke 'em if you got 'em

It’s hard to believe there was a time when smoking was considered cool. But oh, there were such times. Think James Dean leaning against that 1949 Mercury Coupe, a mile of street cred dangling from his lips. Think Clint Eastwood in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly,” scowling around that hand-rolled smoke so blazingly, […]

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Study links 1/4th of U.S. cancer deaths to smoking

CHICAGO — Cigarettes contribute to more than 1 in 4 cancer deaths in the U.S. The rate is highest among men in southern states where smoking is more common and tobacco control policies are less strict. The American Cancer Society study found the highest rate among men in Arkansas, where 40 percent of cancer deaths […]

Posted inMaine, New England, Oxford Hills

No butts; smokers fuming over drive-in smoking ban

BRIDGTON — New efforts to comply with its state license to serve food and drinks has some of the patrons of the Bridgton Twin Drive-In taking to social media to complain. According to posts on the drive-in’s Facebook page and a recorded message on its phone line, the summer business has been warned by the […]

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Street Talk: How to give up smoking even if you’re stupid

Contained within the Sun Journal photo archives are roughly 6,000 photos of yours truly taken over the course of the past 20 years. Here’s me brooding at a crime scene. Here I am getting my face painted (I was a kitten) at the Balloon Festival. Here’s me leaning against a post, sitting at my desk […]

Posted inMaine

Statewide ban on public ‘vaping’ OK’d by legislative committee

AUGUSTA — An effort to place the same restrictions on electronic cigarettes that exist for tobacco cigarettes in Maine cleared the Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee on a 6-5, party-line vote Friday. With Democrats supporting LD 1108 and Republicans opposing it, the bill’s prospects in the full Legislature appear questionable. Electronic cigarettes are battery-operated devices […]

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Debate heats up over proposed cuts to Fund for Healthy Maine

AUGUSTA — Advocates and health care providers said Monday that Gov. Paul LePage’s plan to divert money from a fund that supports community anti-smoking programs in order to maintain Medicaid reimbursements for primary care physicians is the wrong approach. The Republican’s proposed budget would cut $10 million a year from the Fund for Healthy Maine, […]