Today is...

[IceWizard]

08 Mar 2107




No Smoking Day



If you or someone you know smoke cigarettes, you know that it is a very difficult thing to deal with. Cigarettes are highly addictive and harmful to the person who smokes then as well as the people around them. No Smoking Day aims to bring awareness to the dangers of this addiction. The day also tries to spotlight resources available to help people decide to try and quit.

History of No Smoking Day

No Smoking Day started out in 1984 and has grown in size and scope since then. It is celebrated in communities across the world trying to educate more people every year. Each year there is a new short them that can be used in advertising and media to help get the word out. One that many may remember was used in 2010 was “Break free”. This theme was used with images of broken cigarettes encouraging smokers to try to break the chains of tobacco addiction.

Why is it so important to have a day set aside for this? Over the last few decades, it has become very clear how terribly dangerous smoking is. There are toxins in them that cause many different forms of cancer from the mouth to the lungs. What is also important to know is that while it may be a personal choice to smoke or not, when one smokes near another person -or even a pet – the second-hand smoke is just as dangerous to them. So, in fact, it really isn’t just a personal decision. The protection of people who do not want to be effected by second-hand smoke has led to new laws in most communities that ban smoking in most public spaces.

Note:

I had quit smoking last year, but after the loss of my G-Mother and Mother in a short period of time, I again took them back up. However, Yesterday I went to the Doc and got me some Chantix and started down that road once and for all .. If I can I know you can so get after it .. What you waiting for, it doesn't get any easier the longer you wait... Don't be like me and quit now... You will thank God you did.. 


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International Women's Day



Mother, sisters, wives, girlfriends and fiancees…what would we ever do without them?

Nobody can honestly say we don’t owe an enormous amount to the women in our lives, from the mothers who made us chicken soup when we were sick as children, to the sisters who helped us decide what to wear on our first date, to the wives who somehow manage to juggle both a career and a family, never missing a beat. Women’s Day is all about celebrating these incredible people and showing them how much we love, respect and value them.

This holiday is perhaps especially important in parts of the world where women are still forced to deal with shocking inequality on a daily basis and is meant to raise awareness of the challenges and struggles faced by these women. Women’s Day celebrates women’s history, highlighting key events, milestones and achievements, and aims to further promote and raise awareness of women’s rights and to achieve equal opportunity status in all walks of life.

The History of Women’s Day

It may come as a rather sad surprise that Women’s Day was first celebrated on February 28th, 1909 in New York. Two years later, German socialist Luise Zietz proposed that the holiday become an annually observed one that would celebrate various women’s issues, such as suffrage, so as to promote equal rights for women.

The first few Women’s Days were celebrated in a quite different fashion than they are nowadays, with hundreds of demonstrations taking place in Europe. During these demonstrations, women demanded they finally be given both the right to vote and to hold public office. Employment sex discrimination was also an important issue.

In 1917, the Women’s Day demonstrations in Saint Petersburg, Russia, helped initiate the February Revolution, when women marched through the city demanding an end to World War I. This shocked even Leon Trotsky, who, much like other Russian leaders of the day, did not expect the Women’s Day protests to cause that much of a stir.

Until 1977, Women’s Day was celebrated mainly in socialist countries. It was only after the United Nations General Assembly’s decision to proclaim March 8th International Women’s Day that the holiday gained worldwide popularity.

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March 8 Birthdays




Freddie Prinze Jr. - 41



Kat Von D - 35



Ramona Rizzo - 45



Micky Dolenz - 72



Lester Holt - 58



Alan Hale Jr. - (1921 - 1990) (68)



Cyd Charisse - (1922 - 2008) (86)



Randy Meisner - 71



Mel Galley - (1948 – 2008) (60)



Clive Burr - (1957 – 2013) (59)



Murray Roman - (1929 - 1973) (44)







March 8th

2009: A blue plaque honoring The Who’s drummer Keith Moon was unveiled on the site of London’s legendary Marquee Club where they performed 29 concerts in 1964. The plaque was unveiled by Moon’s mother Kit & Roger Daltrey. The blue plaque meant the site was of historical importance & awarded by the U.K.’s Heritage Foundation.

1980: Rush peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 Album Chart with their seventh studio album Permanent Waves which was their first top five album in the U.S. The album spent three weeks at number four.

1975: Styx peaked at number six on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Lady” which was their first top ten single in the U.S.

1974: Bad Company performed their first concert at the Newcastle City Hall in Newcastle, U.K.

1973: Paul McCartney was fined $240 after he pled guilty to charges of growing marijuana at his farm in Campbeltown, Scotland. McCartney claimed he received seeds from some fans & he didn’t know what kind of plants would grow.

1973: Ron “Pigpen” McKernan, keyboardist for the Grateful Dead was found dead at his home Corte Madera, CA of a stomach hemorrhage. He was 27 years old.

1969: The Small Faces performed their final concert at the Springfield Theatre in Jersey on the Channel Islands. Shortly after this concert Steve Marriott announced he was leaving the band to focus on Humble Pie. Shortly afterwards, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane & Ian McLagan formed The Faces with Rod Stewart & Ron Wood.

1969: Creedence Clearwater Revival peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Proud Mary” which was their first top ten single in the U.S.

1965: David Bowie made his TV debut in U.K. performing in the Manish Boys on the show Gadzooks! It’s All Happening where they performed their single “I Pity the Fool”. There had been concern over the length of Bowie’s hair.

Birthdays:

Randy Meisner - Bassist for The Eagles born in 1946

Mel Galley - Guitarist for Whitesnake born in 1948

Clive Burr - Drummer for Iron Maiden born in 1957