TCN Teleconference Series

Summary:
The tobacco industry has been busy promoting harm reduction in states and trying to enlist states to help them with that effort through various proposals. These proposals include promoting smokeless tobacco as less harmful than smoking, taxing smokeless tobacco at lower rates and diverting tobacco prevention funding to study or implement harm reduction approaches. The tobacco control community needs to be prepared to respond.

The Tobacco Control Network (TCN) and national partners will present the first of a two-part webinar series on harm reduction issues. This first webinar will focus on the state harm reduction proposals, and provide tools and messages to counter the industry. The second webinar will discuss electronic cigarettes.

The April 15th webinar will feature speakers from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust, the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Lung Association, and the American Heart Association. Topics will include a review of the science related to harm reduction, what’s happening in states, Oklahoma’s experience with harm reduction proposals, a new toolkit with useful materials for advocates, and strategies you can use to oppose harm reduction proposals in your state.

Agenda and Call Materials:

• Agenda
• Harm Reduction and the Food & Drug Administration – Warren Ortland
• Oklahoma’s Harm Reduction Experience – Tracey Strader & Jennifer Lepard

Speakers:

• Danny McGoldrick, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
• Tim McAfee, CDC Office on Smoking and Health
• Cathy Callaway, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
• Warren Ortland, Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
• Tracey Strader, Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust
• Jennifer Lepard, Oklahoma State Department of Health
• Thomas Carr, American Lung Association

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