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Free Kick Butts Day party set for ages 12-18

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 11:04pm

OGDEN -- A free party to celebrate national Kick Butts Day will be from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday at Fat Cat's, 2261 Kiesel Ave., in The Junction.

The event, sponsored by the Weber-Morgan Health Department, will include pizza, bowling, bumper cars, golf and arcade games for youths ages 12 to 18.

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Want to stop smoking? Attend free workshop in South Ogden

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 11:27pm

SOUTH OGDEN — To celebrate National Pulmonary Rehabilitation Week, the Pulmonary Wellness Center is sponsoring a free stop-smoking workshop for the public from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday and Wednesday at 5974 Fashion Pointe Drive.

The workshop will include information on the risks of smoking and offer a variety of tips and techniques on how to quit.

Information will also be available about new nicotine patches.

For more information, call Dawn or Troy at 801-479-9644.

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Utah's efforts to discourage youths from smoking is paying off, as the number of kids addicted to nicotine is dropping, Here, at the Ogden Amphitheater in May 2009, volunteers Nelson Riches, 16, dressed as a cigarette, and Lary Deuel, dressed as secondhand smoke, talk with kids during a celebration of the smoking ban in public outdoor spaces. (Standard-Examiner file photo)

Utah battle against youth tobacco use continues despite improvements

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 10:12pm

The U.S. Surgeon General is urging states to discourage kids from smoking by implementing tobacco tax hikes, high-impact interventions, smoking bans and mass media campaigns.

Each day, nearly 4,000 kids try their first cigarette and an additional 1,000 under the age of 18 become daily users, according to a report issued this week by the Office of the Surgeon General. About 3.6 million middle and high school students smoke, the report states.

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Woman accused of swapping cigarettes for drug

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, December 19, 2011 - 10:05am

LOGAN -- A 28-year-old woman is facing felony charges for allegedly swapping cigarettes for the stimulant medication Adderall with two juveniles in Logan.

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McCullar gets 15 years to life in prison

Tim Gurrister Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, September 7, 2011 - 11:49pm

OGDEN -- A judge Wednesday sentenced Robert McCullar to 15 years to life in Utah State Prison for a murder that spiraled from a spat over a cigarette.

McCullar, 50, was found guilty July 22 in the Dec. 22, 2009, stabbing death of Filiberto Robles Bedolla, 49, in his apartment at 2560 Adams Ave.

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This image provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, June 21, 2011 shows one of nine new warning labels cigarette makers will have to use by the fall of 2012. In the most significant change to U.S. cigarette packs in 25 years, the FDA's the new warning labels depict in graphic detail the negative health effects of tobacco use. (AP Photo/U.S. Food and Drug Administration)

New cigarette warning labels unveiled

Los Angeles Times, Melissa Healy

Last updated Tuesday, June 21, 2011 - 5:20pm

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday unveiled a group of graphic images and messages that will cover the top half of every cigarette package in the United States starting this fall.

Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg said her agency estimated that the new campaign could induce as many as 213,000 established smokers in the United States to quit in its first year.

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