Taxing smokers helps them give up - Newstalk ZB

New research by Auckland University says more Maori, Pacific and low income smokers are ditching the habit following the rise in excise tax in April

More evidence that taxing smokers heavily is forcing them to give up.

It comes in new research by the Auckland University's Centre for Tobacco Control Research.

It says more Maori, Pacific and low income smokers are ditching the habit following the rise in excise tax in April.

A survey's found that 65 per cent of participants had tried to stop smoking since then, double the quitting rates reported in a national survey, which found that about a third had tried to quit in the last year.

The survey also found people weren't switching to loose tobacco, as has happened with previous price hikes.

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Online marketing class helps business owners be found online - Ahwatukee Foothills News

Posted: Saturday, September 25, 2010 4:00 pm | Updated: 4:28 pm, Thu Sep 23, 2010.

Internet marketing expert Dr. Ron Marek will present the online marketing class "How You Can ‘Be Found' Online By Your Customers" from 8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 28, in the second floor seminar room at Hotel Tempe, 1660 W. Elliot Road, Tempe.

The following topics will be covered: what it takes for your website to be on the first page on Google and Yahoo, what a blog is and how it helps your business, what videos do for the online ranking of your business, how important keywords are in your website ranking, how to spot a good SEO service provider and one that is a fake, what back linking is and why you need it for your website, how to get more leads from your website, how important footprints are on your website, tricks to saving hundred of dollars each month with Pay-Per-Click campaigns, and current, up-to-the moment information shared on organic online marketing.

The cost is $35 per person, and seating is limited.

For more information or to reserve your seat, contact Christine at (480) 456-4700.

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