According to the American Heart Association, cigarette smoke and chewing tobacco use, high blood cholesterol, high blood pressure, physical inactivity, obesity and diabetes are the six major independent risk factors for coronary heart disease that you can modify or control.

The next tobacco cessation class will begin February 28, and will be held every Tuesday for six weeks from 5-6 p.m. in the Garden Court at Memorial's Downtown Campus. For more information or to register call x1990.