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After a year of global pandemic, we should not be surprised that 2021 is the year when a horde of 17-year cicadas will descend on us once again.
According to the website EarthSky, billions of Brood X cicadas will emerge in a dozen states, “from New York west to Illinois and south into northern Georgia, including hot spots in Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee, Maryland, Pennsylvania and New Jersey.”
Not to worry. The cicadas will make a lot of noise with their mating calls, but they don’t sting and they’re not harmful. Locusts they are not. And they will go away, and the nitrogen from their bodies will feed the trees they once nibbled on.
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Wednesday, February 5th, 2014.CVS Caremark to stop selling tobacco products – USA TODAYPedestrians walk past a CVS store in Chicago in February 2012.(Photo: M. Spencer Green, AP) Story Highlights CVS counseling customers on health choices Decision is part of a larger shift in company priorities Company sells $1.5 billion in tobacco a year WASHINGTON Drug store giant CVS Caremark announced Wednesday it will no longer sell […]
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Smoking Makes a Comeback in the Pandemic
By Cara Murez
HealthDay Reporter
TUESDAY, March 16, 2021 (HealthDay News) Katie Rodgers was just 15 years old when she started smoking, and in her early 20s when it became a more significant habit.
Rodgers found quitting tough, but she managed to kick the habit at age 33 during a global pandemic because she knew that smoking would increase her anxiety and put her at higher risk of becoming seriously ill from COVID-19.
Her achievement was unusual at a time when cigarette purchases have risen slightly in the United States and requests for smoking cessation services have dramatically dropped.
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