LATHAM - For months, the staff at Capital Imaging has been trying to get the word out about the new mammogram law in New York.

"We started to educate our referring physicians on the expectation that there were going to be a lot of questions, a lot of women wondering what to do next," said Michael Masone, Director of Capital Imaging.

Starting Jan. 19, women must be notified if their mammogram shows their breast tissue is dense.

Dense breast tissue is common and not abnormal, but it may be linked to an increased risk of breast cancer and can also make it more difficult to find cancer on a mammogram.

ALBANY - It sounds like a good idea to the Tobacco-Free Coalition.

They tell us cigarettes and other tobacco products are already banned in some localities across the nation. Fifty-three places in Massachusetts including Pittsfield, Lenox and Lee, but no place yet in New York State.

"Put restrictions on a product equal to the damage that it causes," said Judy Rightmyer of the Tobacco-Free Coalition.

Legislator Tim Nichols is advancing the pharmacy tobacco ban for Albany County.

If it gets passed at a future meeting, then places like CVS, as well as Price Chopper, Hannaford and ShopRite, would have to pull their cigarettes or close their pharmacies in Albany County.

"Tobacco products shouldn't be sold in places where people go to get well," said Nichols. "Where people go to get their medicine."