Tobacco

OGDEN — For five years, Scarlet Hartwell saved to buy a car with leather interior, one she swore she would never smoke in.

But after two weeks of owning the car, the Ogden woman's “cunning, powerful” addiction won, with the hot embers from her cigarettes falling to the floorboard, burning holes in the mats.

“If you saved for five years, you would think you would honor that car,” said Hartwell, 61, an aerospace worker who has been smoking for nearly 40 years. She is part of the Utah Department of Health’s first “Be a Quitter” tobacco campaign.

OGDEN — Weber-Morgan Health Department offers Ending Nicotine Dependence classes, which are geared toward youths who would like to quit using tobacco.

FARMINGTON — New state standards regulating tobacco shops will suffice in this community.

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.

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.

Although teen smoking has declined, more than 3 million high school students and 600,000 middle school students still smoke cigarettes and are at risk of early lung and heart problems, according to a report issued Thursday by the U.S. surgeon general.

SALT LAKE CITY -- Laws that regulate hookahs, electronic cigarettes and nicotine lozenges and gum could all be tightened under proposals being considered by Utah legislators.