Smokers have by now noticed that the habit has gotten more expensive in Vermont. The
tax on a pack of cigarettes sold in Vermont increased 38 cents this month.
This Radiolab meets a Cold War negotiator who, in order to quit smoking, backs himself into a tactical corner, and we visit a clinic in Russia where patients turn to a radical treatment to help fight their demons.
Today is the Great American smoke out – when
people are encouraged to kick the habit. State health officials want the 83,000 Vermonters who smoke to know that help is
just a few computer clicks away.