In my October 23 letter I explained in detail how I am vehemently opposed to smoking and try my best to advise young people on the hazards of smoking.

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Before signing the bill, the president acknowledged the struggle that young people in particular face when they try to stop smoking.

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Ever try to quit smoking by trying not to think about smoking?

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It's really striking how influential just a simple question of the doctor or nurse asking a patient if they smoke, advising them to quit and helping them to find treatment can have in terms of promoting somebody to try to quit smoking.

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"Nowadays you come to town, you stick your little card in the slot machine next to some blue-haired lady smoking away and try to figure out how many points you need for a buffet, " says Poster.

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They were left "scrabbling" around to try and find a "smoking gun" in a short period of time, he said, while the UK and US had never "recovered" from the fact that no WMD were found after the invasion.

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This did not stop religious groups and the anti-smoking lobby from mobilising to try to stop a planned concert in Jakarta by Kelly Clarkson, an American singer.

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For all of Week 2, some of the students were asked to try to suppress any and all thoughts about smoking.

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Lawyers try to sift through all this dross in search of the smoking gun that can determine the outcome of a case.

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What you can try to sum up is how much economic potential is lost due to deaths from smoking through some back of the envelope calculations.

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