10 days no smoking cigarettes 7,100 cigarettes. That’s what my tally was, after rippin almost a pack a day everyday for over year straight. Today marks smoking. Small win, but posting to help track my progress and also Your Guide to Quitting Smoking

In other Van Halen-related news, Alex Van Halen's long-awaited memoir, and tribute to the late Edward Van Halen, Brothers , released earlier this week, revealed, among other intriguing revelations, that the reason David Lee Roth left the band in 1985 was because "he couldn't handle the fact that Eddie was getting more attention than he was." The audiobook version of the release contains an unreleased six-minute instrumental piece by the two siblings titled "Unfinished," which, as previously hinted at by former VH bassist Michael Anthony, is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the vast Van Halen archive of unreleased recordings

According to the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States, youth "who get the most exposure to onscreen smoking [in movies] are about twice as likely to begin smoking as those who get the least exposure." Researchers have looked at smoking in other kinds of media, as well

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The rate of nonmenthol cigarette use by adolescents decreased from 6.4 to 3.7 percent, and the rate for young adults decreased from 25.9 to 18.1 percent

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