Remembering Peter: Stop Smoking

jenningsaugust9.jpgIf you are quitting smoking to honor Peter Jennings, ABC News wants to know. The network is asking people who are trying to quit to submit their contact information to ABC producers for an upcoming report…

> Also on ABCNews.com: “ABC News anchors said they hope if anything positive can be taken from Jennings’ death, it is a greater awareness of the dangers of smoking. “I want to give a message,” Barbara Walters said. “If you have kids who are smoking, for heaven’s sake, tell them that we lost Peter.”

> MSNBC.com blog: NBC News correspondent Mike Taibbi is questioning his smoking habit. “A lot of journalists used to smoke…or, as I must admit, still do…especially under the pressure of a big story deadline,” he said on Monday’s Nightly News…

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