We've known for a while now that Regis Philbin has been planning to peace out of Live with Regis and Some Other Lady, but up until today, the Reeg has been mum on when exactly that sad, sad day will come. Until now. more ›

Well then! Lots of people have gross things to say about the supermarket Whole Foods but it seems one (former) employee in Toronto has a whole lot to say about the retailer lovingly referred to as Whole Paycheck. As a goodbye salvo he wrote a doozy of a resignation letter which he sent to the entire company last week. To nobody's surprise that letter is now making the rounds online (first on Gawker). What are we talking about here? Well, this is how it starts: "My experience at Whole Foods was like an increasingly sped up fall down a really long hill. That got rockier with every metre. And eventually, just really spiky ... With fire, acid and Nickleback [sic] music." more ›

Sure, lung cancer is hellish, but nothing motivates smokers to quit like a cigarette price increase. The city’s health department says the calls to 311 from smokers seeking help tripled during the week the state implemented a cigarette tax hike of $1.25. At over $8 a pack, smoking in New York City costs more than anywhere else in America, setting the pack-a-day smoker back $3,000 a year. The city contends tax increases in 2002 contributed to a five year, 21% drop in adult smoking and a 52% drop in smoking among New York City public high school students.
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