Second Hand Smoke

• Pueblo heart attack study refined
• Exposure to ETS influences asthma incidence
• Mothers of children with respiratory illnesses found to rationalize smoking
• More people living in areas limiting smoking
• Anti-SHS media related to home smoking restrictions
• Secondhand smoke can damage skin
• Environmental managers agree that secondhand smoke is an air pollutant
• Secondhand smoke identified as toxic air contaminant
• Particulate matter tested in Akron bars
• Cost of secondhand smoke in Maryland is $600 million annually
• NY smoking ban reduces SHS exposure for hospitality workers
• New Washington State secondhand smoke campaign launches
• Washington’s 2005 secondhand smoke media efforts recognized
• Information on smoke-free condominiums available on SFELP website
• Web resource on smoke-free bowling
• Government Campus/Prison Bans
• Hospital Bans
• Workplace/Worker Restrictions
• Hotel Bans
• Outdoor Bans
• College/School Bans
• Smoke-Free Dining
• Smoke-Free Dwellings
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Youth Prevention

• Global Youth Tobacco Survey reveals increased smoking rates among girls
• Survey finds that teenage girls in the U.S. are smoking more than boys
• Europe is worst area for youth smoking
• Youth listen to anti-tobacco messages even when from smoking parents
• Effect of prenatal smoking on adolescent smoking
• Epidemiology of smoking behavior among youth examined
• Florida senator proposes the return of truth® campaign
• Students in Nassau County, Florida paid to turn in offenders
• Former Philip Morris scientist speaks to children in Glynn County, GA
• Hawaii legislature proposes bills to target teens
• Chicago ban on candy-flavored cigarettes repealed
• City of Harvey, Indiana targets sales to minors
• Kansas lawmaker proposes ban on sale of candy-flavored cigarettes
• Pledge program to prevent underage sales started in Massachusetts
• Tobacco use down among Minnesota students
• Former spit tobacco user educates students in Montana
• Underage tobacco possession bill proposed in Nevada
• Miss New Jersey speaks to middle school students as part of industry anti-smoking campaign
• Board of Health in Pittsfield, New York to rewrite tobacco regulations
• Sixteen clerks in NC arrested for underage tobacco sales
• Cigarette consumption down in North Dakota’s middle school students
• Storyboard contest for youth begins in Oklahoma
• Pennsylvania teens create anti-smoking ads for television
• Breakfast Club formed to prevent smoking among Pennsylvania middle school students
• South Carolina Governor signs Youth Tobacco Prevention Act
• Virginia youth-smoking prevention campaign director returns
• Washington youth campaign generates responses
• Raze campaign teaches West Virginia youth how to combat tobacco
• Miss West Virginia speaks to children about dangers of tobacco
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Disparities

• African-American male smokers are more likely to get cancer
• Study shows more Hispanic women and teenagers smoking
• Black and white teens metabolize nicotine differently
• Arkansas targets Hispanics for anti-smoking campaign
• Smoking prevalence related to English proficiency among Asian Americans in California
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Cessation

• Sudden attempts to quit smoking may be more successful
• Surgery may be best time to make a quit attempt
• Gene related to smoking addiction
• Withdrawal symptoms may be eased by smell and taste of tobacco
• Clinicians should encourage non-daily smokers to quit
• Patient risk reduction for smoking in pregnancy
• FDA rejects drug as smoking-cessation aid
• Anti-tobacco advertising promotes cessation
• Advertising of smoking cessation products encourages smokers to attempt quitting
• Connecting physician offices to state quit lines
• Nicotine patch plus group support effective in helping women in public housing quit
• Impact of smoking cessation aids and mass media on quit success
• Tobacco Cessation Leadership Network launches new website
• CTFK inventory of cessation products (QuiTIP) updated
• Stop smoking Podcasts launched in Indiana
• Quit and Win Contest increased quit rates in Kentucky
• Cessation program in NC targets smoking relatives of lung cancer patients
• Colleges in NC take part in tobacco-cessation campaign targeting age group
• Free smoking cessation aids offered by North Dakota Quit Line for Valentine’s Day
• Ohio insurers help smokers quit
• More Oregon insurers cover tobacco cessation
• Washington Tobacco Cessation Resource Center starts operation
• Governor of WV designates “Through with Chew Week”
• Cessation treatments studied in Wisconsin
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Legislative Watch

• England Passes Smoke-free Workplace Law
• ALA releases State of Tobacco Control 2005 report
• TCLC releases law synoposis on internet cigarette retailers
• Definition of ‘incidental’ questioned in Fayetteville ban
• Sedona, Arizona passes smoke-free workplace law
• Smoke-free laws in California increase revenues for restaurants and bars
• Proposed statewide smoking ban in Colorado amended to include casinos
• Proposal to cut off state health care for smokers killed
• Fairness of CT state smoking ban debated
• D.C. Council approves smoking ban
• United States Capitol exempt from D.C. smoking ban
• Georgia cigarette safety bill in senate committee
• Smoking bans in Idaho bowling alleys debated
• Statewide smoking ban proposed in Illinois
• Chicago, IL bars may be exposed by new ordinance as illegally licensed
• Ban in Joliet, IL snuffed out
• Springfield joins Chicago as smoke-free
• Normal, IL smoking ban to be considered by city council
• St. Joseph County, Indiana passes smoking ban for public places and businesses
• Three central IN cities, including Indianapolis, to go smoke-free in March
• Delaware County, Indiana passes smoking ban
• West Lafayette votes down ban
• Alexandria City Council in Louisiana passes smoking ban
• Smoking ban defeated in Maryland
• Michigan’s Saginaw County revises smoking ban ordinance
• St. Paul enacts smokefree law
• St. Louis County, MN postpones consideration of smoking ban
• Smoking ban for all Mississippi public buildings proposed
• New Hampshire considers smoking ban for restaurants
• New Jersey becomes 11th smoke-free workplace state in the nation
• New Jersey lawmaker wants to extend new smoking ban to casinos
• North Dakota’s anti-smoking law violated by few businesses
• Prosed ban on smoking in cars fails in Ohio city
• Oklahoma prepares to enforce restaurant smoking ban
• Oregon bans tobacco at public schools
• Puerto Rico Senate Passes Smokefree Workplace Law
• Revenues higher in Smokefree Rhode Island
• South Carolina House subcommittees considers smoking ban in restaurants
• State smoking ban bill in South Dakota
• Nashville may ban smoking in restaurants
• Powerful Texas state legislator threatens anti-smoking funding
• Smoking ban voted down in Galveston
• Utah Senate bill proposes to ban smoking in bars and private clubs
• Proposed statewide smoking ban in Virginia voted down
• Correction from November/December 2005 issue
• Amendment to Initiative 901 sought for Native American practices
• Washington state legislators work to pass anti-smoking discrimination bill
• Proposed smoking ban in Milwaukee modified
• Madison sees increase in number of bar licenses
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Lawsuits

• Supreme Court rejects challenge to California anti-smoking ads
• Lawsuit filed against National Association of Attorneys General by tobacco product manufacturer
• Missouri jury rules in favor of RJ Reynolds
• Settlement reached with Native Trading Associates in New York
• Oregon Supreme Court Awards $79.5 Million in Damages Against Philip Morris
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Excise Taxes

• Updates on taxes in Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Vermont and West Virginia.
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Tobacco Industry News

• Study reveals litigation strategies by tobacco companies
• Ineffective ventilation system promoted by tobacco industry
• Industry-sponsored ads ineffective at preventing youth smoking
• Tobacco documents reveal Kraft and Philip Morris shared flavor research
• British American Tobacco concealed toxicity of low-tar cigarettes
• Industry lobbying tab now at record levels
• Exposure to tobacco advertising exceeds anti-tobacco campaigns
• CDC countermarketing manual available online
• New national project to restrict spit tobacco sponsorship of rodeos
• 'Follow the Signs’ Training Program
• Tobacco Ad Teardown Project
• FedEx latest to join companies prohibiting delivery of cigarettes to individuals
• Philip Morris agrees to stop supplying cigarettes to illegal dealers
• Cigarette companies moving to smokeless tobacco to compensate for decreased sales
• Examination of tobacco industry’s opposition to E-code classification of ETS-related death
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Number of cancer cases to rise worldwide
• Stroke risk remains high for former smokers
• American Cancer Society reports decrease in U.S. cancer deaths
• Smoking exacerbates effect of alcohol on brain
• Research demonstrates that smoking hurts eyes
• Smoking during pregnancy causes congenital digital anomalies in babies
• Relationship between psychiatric disorders and smoking
• Researchers examine causes of pulmonary emphysema related to cigarette smoking
• Asymptomatic former smokers should consider CT screening
• Cannabis smoking more damaging to lungs than tobacco
• Online tool available to develop action plan to reduce cancer risk
• Health insurers continue trend of charging smokers more for insurance
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Other News

• Fear messages not successful in Canada
• More than 100 countries meet as parties to global tobacco treaty
• Rates of spit tobacco use a concern
• Issue brief on anti-smoking strategies for states released by Council of State Governments
• CDC/OSH's State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System Update
• Study indicates that Indiana’s economy would be better without tobacco
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Save the Date

• First Annual Health Disparities Conference
• Society for Public Health Education 2006 Health Education Advocacy Summit
• The Virginia Forum on Youth Tobacco Use: Translating Research into Practice
• 5th National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults
• World Conference on Nonsmokers' Rights
• National Public Health Week
• Kick Butts Day
• Help Your Patients Quit Smoking: Become a Tobacco Dependence Treatment Specialist
• Bringing 100% Tobacco-Free Schools to Ohio
• Preventing Youth Access to Tobacco Conference
• Driving Program Success: Exploring Innovation in Tobacco Control Web-based Systems
• SOPHE 2006 Midyear Scientific Conference: Betting on Health Education - Increasing the Odds for Collaboration
• Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center Conferences
• 24th National Conference on Health Promotion and Health: Advancing the National Health Promotion and Health Education Agenda Through Effective Policies and Practices
• State-of-the-Science Conference on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control
• 2006 International Cancer and Tobacco Control Conferences
• NACCHO ANNUAL 2006 Conference: "The Local Health Department Story: Know it. Live it. Share it."
• The 3rd Annual Spit Tobacco Summit: Advancing Understanding and Building Collaboration
• SOPHE Annual Meeting
• APHA 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements

• Blue Cross of Minnesota to fund community health improvement programs
• Program Planner III, New Hampshire Division of Public Health Services/Bureau of Prevention Services
• Training and School Programs Liaison (Principal Health Contributor 1), Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program
• Public Health Specialist II, Alaska Tobacco Prevention and Control Program
• Marketing Administrative Specialist, American Legacy Foundation
• Open Rank, Tenure-Track Faculty Positions Related to Tobacco, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• Program Manager, Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program
• Health/Policy Educator, California’s Clean Air Project
• Tobacco Prevention & Control Specialist, Substance Abuse Division, Wyoming Department of Health
• Analyst IV - Program Consultant, University of California, San Francisco, California Department of Health Services, Tobacco Control Section
• Research Associate, American Legacy Foundation
• Temporary Intake Specialist, Smoking Cessation Call Center, American Legacy Foundation
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State Program News

• San Diego mayor endorses using tobacco settlement funding for pension deficit
• Mississippi funding bills for tobacco control in debate
• Mississippi governor has other plan for Partnership’s settlement money
• Health advocacy groups in South Carolina say settlement funds used poorly
• Vermont attorney general criticizes proposals to use settlement money
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