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Clicking together. i look to my left and i saw the swing ride it collapsed. all these people were there. i actually saw some one fall out of the cart. >> 18 people suffered minor injuries. one child sent to the hospital. the operator of the ride, stewart amusement, posted it believes mechanical failure is to blame. well, for smokers trying to kick the habit, e-cigarettes may be as effective as the nicotine patch. a study found 1/5 of smokers quit completely using either method in six months. t...

Rick: right. >> but its a lot better than smoking cigarettes probably. but if you had the choice, id probably use a nicotine patch or some other delivery device. rick: the whole idea, dr. manny, of a so-called healthy cigarette, it sounds like an oxymoron. >> like a healthy hamburger. look, this is another gimmick by the tobacco companies. if you look at the rates of smoking in this country, about 50 million americans smoke, and we know for sure that, you know, nicotine is addictive, and in the ...

Lighting them and potentially releasing cancer causing qualities of them the concern. here, you dont have many chemicals. you may have nicotine and may have chemicals that cause the vapor but still not enough data. >> so much, like the click of the top almost sounds like the old-fashioned lighter, the look and how they feel and faintly how they smell. could they be an effective aid to help people quit smoke like the nicotine patch or gum or something people could get addicted to, people start tr...

We dont know what the chemicals do for sure. probably theres still not enough data. >> so much, sanjay, about this, the click of the top almost sounds like the old fashioned lighter. the way they look, the way they feel, even faintly how they smell. could they be an effective aid to help people quit smoking like the nicotine patch or the gum or is this something that maybe, you know, people could get addicted to, people could start trying who maybe wouldnt have been a smoker and they like it. >>...

Its going to make you sick. you both have tips for our viewers who are going to take our advice. >> yeah, i mean, i think people dont need to hear from me that smoking is not good for you. everyone thinks about lung cancer, but have you throat, bladder cancer, heart disease. everyone knows this. the question is, how do you get rid of this? what we know that is that the fda is going easy with the nicotine patch. they let you use it beyond the 12 weeks of regulation, hoping to reduce the risk of s...

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Foot hotel in just 360 hours and they posted a video on youtube to prove it. amazing. in health news, a new study shows nicotine may help tune up the brain of seniors suffering from mild memory loss. researchers found seniors suffering from mild cognitive impairment considered a precurser to alzheimers could boost memory with a nicotine patch. for more information on this and other health stories, you can always head to the web online. check out the health page at msnbc.com. president obama ...

it started at midnight. mississippi governor, he pardoned four convicted killers on his way out from office. they were all serving life sentences in murder cases. all of them had also worked in a special program at the governors mansion. >> and im not sure if you saw these pictures, but awesome. check this out. this is a tanker with ice cutters trying to plow through the alaskan ice because its got a critical shipment of fuel. and its headed towards an alaskan city that really, really ...

about. election day in new hampshire. republicans choosing a nominee to run against president obama. democrats choosing, well, president obama. these first in the nation primaries culminate months or even years of campaigning and most of the top republicans are still at it. heres why. the last new hampshire tracking poll by suffolk university puts to rest any visions of iowa-like outcomes. mitt romneys lead is actually a few points wider than yesterday. but jon huntsman has broken out ...

easing fears about a double dip recession. don? >> alison, all week we have heard outrage over bank of americas debit card fee. what happened to the outrage? >> oh, yeah. so everybody has been outraged after bank of america is going to tack on a fee to your debit card early yex year. this woman took her outrage one step further. so what she did was started an online petition. she has gathered already 150,000 signatures on it. she went ahead and presented it at a bank of america branch ...