If you live in a fairly large city, chances are you have multiple gyms in the area all offering different prices for membership. I used to belong to a popular gym many years ago and my membership was around $40 a month, yikes! Looking back, I can’t believe I paid that much. Now a days, with so much competition, you can find excellent deals without contracts. Today, I went to a local gym in the area with a good friend of mine to check out their membership options. They have been advertising gym memberships for $10 a month so we thought it was a good deal.

So What’s the Catch?

First I’d like to state that not all gyms that offer reasonable prices work the way this one does.

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The cigar industry is preparing to fight a tobacco tax that health advocates hope to push through the General Assembly next year.

The International Premium Cigar & Pipe Retailers Association, which represents thousands of mostly mom-and-pop cigar stres, said it is organizing in hopes of preventing the proposed tax on cigars and others tobacco products other than cigarettes from passing.

“Maryland voters are sick of increased taxes disguised to obscure government over-spending and they are tired of being told what to do and how to behave,” Bill Spann, CEO of the IPCPR said in a statement.

Maryland Citizens’ Health Initiative is pushing for the the new tax. They successfully pushed dime-a-drink tax on alcohol through the last General Assembly session.

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updated 8:57 AM EST, Thu February 23, 2012 Addicts shoot up drugs in 1969, when Gary Stromberg says the drugs of choice were pot, cocaine, heroin and alcohol. STORY HIGHLIGHTS

(CNN) — The Whitney Houston headlines last week sent a familiar shiver through me.

In the 1970s, I ran one of the leading entertainment business public relations firms. Celebrity clients were wildly indulging themselves, accountable to no one. It was money, power and prestige, with no one to say, “That’s enough.”

Drugs and alcohol were endemic.

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Dental professionals from the around the world will convene at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California for North America’s premier dental meeting.

The American Dental Association’s Annual Session offers an unparalleled opportunity to select from among hundreds of leading speakers, all in one location, and to learn in the most advanced settings in the dental community. With more than 250 spanning four days, you will find plenty of ideas you to take home and implement immediately. More than half of continuing education lecture course seats are free with registration.

Only the ADA offers cutting-edge educational opportunities such as the Open Clinical and Science Forums, live-patient Education in the Round courses, continuing education on the exhibit floor featuring the latest technologies at the LOC (Learn*Optimize*Connect), and more. Sho

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