She’s Got It!

What a fun, hectic, crazy event all rolled into one! The crowd turned out to be so much more than the numbers who placed their RSVP with us on our Facebook Event Page. Thank you for coming down even if it means dropping by for a while, hope you got some lovely loot from our bazaar. Thank you for supporting this valuable social cause and taking up a pledge with us! Thank you to the vendors for making your way down and joining us!

We hope you’ve had as much crazy fun as we did.

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So, have you got it?

Alright ladies, heressome breaking news for you….

The one small piece of good news that women more often survive.

“They are more likely to get it but less likely to die of it,” Henschke says.

Still lung cancer will kill 73,000 American women this year — more than will die from breast and ovarian cancer combined. Those statistics are well known to Marie and Rose Anne Salvaggio, mother and daughter, who own the Via Oreto restaurant in New York.

Marie managed to quit smoking 15 years ago after she suffered a lung collapse that she thought was cancer.

“You have to get a good fright in you to quit smoking,” Marie Salvaggio says.

Rose Anne still struggles to stop.

“It’s such a lousy, horrible, horrendous habit,” she says.

Scientists do not know why women are affected differently by cigarette smoke. It appears the cells in women’s lungs respond differently to the toxins in cigarettes. But the public health message is clear.

“Young women need to understand that they are more likely to get lung cancer, so they really should not start smoking,” Henschke says.

So they don’t join the millions like Marie and Rose Anne Salvaggio who struggle to overcome the habit before it is too late.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13819766/

Just a little tidbit to let you know more about the people running the show! (We know it’s an excuse to, you know, take photos of ourselves but we’re never camera-shy anyway!)

Smoking is bad not only for your health, but also for your beauty. It decreases the flow of blood to the skin, leaving your complexion dull, promotes wrinkles and fine lines, deprives your skin of oxygen and robs your body of essential vitamins. That’s why smokers in their 30s have as many wrinkles as non-smokers in their 50s. Those who smoke every day get more wrinkles all over their face because of the nicotine that it constructs the tiny capillaries that nourish the skin. Smoking ages skin faster than anything else apart from sun damage. Smoking contracts your blood vessels and therefore doesn’t allow enough oxygen to reach the skin’s surface, resulting in dull-looking skin.

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A woman is a symbol of beauty, brains, power, skill and fortune. She is the ultimate picture of love, care and compassion. Now, have a look at this picture of the new-age women who flaunts a cigarette as an accessory and blows away smoke as she would blow away any other problem. She takes to flaunting it initially as a fashion statement and thinks herself to be ‘cool’.

Smoking women, at the onset think themselves as trendy and at par with their male counterparts. They consider that a woman with a cigarette in her hand reflects her audacity, assertiveness, poise and states her damn-care attitude. They initially take to smoking as a stress-reliever for a short-term but they ignore the fact that- ‘once an addiction, always an addiction’. To quit smoking might seem like an easy option but not, once you are addicted to it.

Smoking is a vice that starts of as a fashion and ends in addiction. Research shows that a woman’s physiology is much more sensitive to tobacco smoking than her male counterpart. But the sad part is that, women addicted to smoking tend to overlook or prefer to turn a blind eye to the inherent ill-effects…

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