If you need help quitting smoking, you might want to turn to those who know what it’s like that’s the message at the center of a new public health campaign.
mccorkell, wjz eyewitness news. thanks so much for the update. wjz will continue to follow this story. we ll update you with more information when it becomes available in this newscast. the first funeral was held for a victim of the moore, oklahoma tornado. edward lawrence with the details. reporter: the first of 24 victims was laid to rest. family and friends gathered for the funeral of one of the seven children killed. the cleanup was put on hold this morning when more than six inches of rain flooded streets. the tornado stared dianne meyers house, wiping out the rest of her block. she thought she was lucky until this morning. it s been extremely hard. we ve lived here for years and i raised my kids here. reporter: after the rain stop, volunteers helped residents search through piles of rubble for their belongings. where do you start on this? from the top and work your way down. anything we can do to help. the governor of oklahoma announced a memorial servi
our discussion today, paul volcker talked about the need for tax reform and said he would like to see his even be older than tackling expenditure and lowering rates, which is kind of the grand bargain and seems what you have been mind. moving toward integrating personal taxes with corporate taxes, or moving toward a consumption tax. very mention of vat. i don t necessarily need you time your detailed plan but how ambitious would you be, how would you look at the revenue raising pursing the incentive trade-offs? you know, can you say a little bit more about the framework you would bring to this? i think we should be open to every possibility. i first whipped in 1985 that americans never had a value-added tax because conservatives think it s a money machine for government. and liberals think it s regressive. and liberals decide the money machine for government, and conservatives decided it s okay because it was progressive. that fell right in 1985. you know, the more things c
effects. these stories really haven t ever been seen in popular media. and we expect it will lead to more than half a million smokers seeking out the resources they need to quit. now, when we look back on just a few decades to the days of smoking on airplanes and elevators, it can be easy to focus on how far we ve come since then. it can be easy to be lulled into a sense of complacency and start to think tobacco use is a problem that will go away on its own. but unfortunately we know better. and the numbers actually tell a very different story. tobacco in this country continues to kill 443,000 443,000 americans of year. and for every person who dies from smoking, at least two new young smokers take their place. in total across this country, we have 4,000 young americans under 18 smoking their first cigarette every day, recruited by a tobacco industry that spend morse than $10 billion a year to sell its products as cool and fun. so the ad campaign we re launching today will
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