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Tobacco Free Press - Table of Contents
July/August 2006
- SHS carries large financial costs for smokers and families
- Smoke-free policies related to SHS exposure
- Smokers adjust to and accept smoke-free laws
- Babies easily absorb smoke in homes
- Pre- and postnatal exposure to smoke affects children’s
respiratory health
- UC Davis researchers demonstrate how SHS injures babies’
lungs
- Parents who smoke may raise child’s leukemia risk
- Children who live with smokers have more respiratory
complications during surgery
- Contact with smokers increases risk of meningococcal
disease in teens
- UGA researchers measure SHS in outdoor areas
- Indiana study raises health concerns about SHS in non-smoking
sections
- Mankato, MN ordinance greatly improves indoor air quality
- New Yorkers’ exposure to SHS has decreased by
50% in three years
- CDC smoke-free business booklet focuses on productivity
losses
- NCI enacts smoke-free meeting policy
- WHO calls for smoking ordinances worldwide based on
CalEPA’s report linking SHS to breast cancer
- Surgeon General’s report has far-reaching implications
for passage of smoke-free ordinances across the nation
- Minnesota gubernatorial candidate backs smoke-free air
and higher tobacco taxes
- Environmental toxins’ effects on children cost
MN $1 billion per year
- New ordinance in St. Paul receives wide support
- Lubbock restaurant business increases after passage
of smoking ordinance
- Dublin City Declares Secondhand Smoke a Nuisance
- Judge Reinstates Frankfurt Smoking Ban
- Extremely Strict Smoking Ban Wins Approval 5-0 in Ashland
- Farmington goes smoke free Jan. 1
- Restaurant Owners Now Want Smoke-free Bars in Houston
- Lockheed Martin banning smoking inside and outside for
employees in Fort Worth
- Government/Prison Policies
- Hospital Policies
- Outdoor Policies
- College/School Policies
- Smoke-free Dining
- Smoke-free Dwellings
- Smoke-free Hotels
- Smoke-free Vehicles
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- Cigarette Use Among High School Students — United
States, 1991–2005
- Youth-rated movies contain more images of smoking than
R-rated movies
- Path from first cigarette to addiction shorter than
expected
- Parental cigarette use related to increased cigarette
and drug use among children
- Using anti-industry messages to prevent smoking among
high-risk teens
- Teen girls smoke to look sexy
- Depression tied to risky behavior, including smoking,
in teen girls
- Effects of pro- and anti-tobacco ad messages on youth
susceptibility
- Menthol cigarettes serve as starter products for youth
- Screen Out! Guide helps parents address smoking in movies
- Countries in the U.K. may increase minimum smoking age
- Lorillard to help curb illegal internet sales
- Youth anti-tobacco activists hold rally at MPAA headquarters
- Shareowners Push TimeWarner on Movies Depicting Smoking
- Baffling Q’s and A’s highlight the truth®
in new documentary-style campaign
- Computer software aims to curb teen smoking through
imagery
- Sen. Lautenberg says discounted cigarettes on Capitol
Hill send wrong message to children
- Tobacco sales to Hawaii youth remain low
- Illinois tobacco retailers educated about fake IDs
- Indiana youth prefer chewing to smoking
- Youth smoking decreases in Iowa
- NYC releases list of businesses selling cigarettes to
minors
- Mississippi tobacco control program works with churches
to prevent youth smoking
- Annual sting catches no Missouri businesses selling
tobacco to minors
- Adolescent smoking down but chewing up in Montana
- Montana conducts sting operations to reduce sales of
cigarettes to youth
- ‘Debunkify’ campaign targets young tobacco
users in Ohio
- Pennsylvania promotes anti-chewing tobacco message at
Little League Baseball World Series
- SC now fining youth for possession of tobacco products
- Teen Smokers Face Penalties Under New Law
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- Release of special issue on tobacco control policies
and low SES women and girls
- Additional measures needed to reduce SHS exposure among
at-risk groups
- Smoking accounts for health gap between men in different
social classes
- African Americans try to quit smoking cold turkey, resulting
in low success rates
- Predictors of tobacco use among low-income African Americans
- Smoking causes bladder and lung cancer more frequently
in women
- Smoking among women increasing across the globeYoung
women’s perceptions of smoking across life transitions
- Role of traumatic life experiences in women’s
smoking status
- Tobacco control policy advocacy attitudes and self-efficacy
among ethnically diverse high school students
- Smoking restrictions less common in rural areas
- Neighborhood and individual socioeconomic inequalities
in smoking
- Smoking initiation among Asian American subgroups
- Sociocultural determinants of tobacco use among Cambodian
Americans
- Cumulative overexposure to tobacco smoke among Asian
Americans
- Use of pharmaceutical aids by Latino smokers
- Tobacco counter-ads aimed at bicultural Mexican American
youth
- Elevated risk for tobacco use among gay men
- Stress and targeting by tobacco industry result in high
smoking rates among LGBT community
- Virginia HBCU Alliance holds summit to prevent youth
smoking
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- Use of light cigarettes decreases odds of cessation
- Increasing social unacceptability of smoking reduces
cigarette consumption
- Cochrane review examines effectiveness of telephone
counseling for cessation
- Vareniciline shown to be effective in recent studies
- UCSF conducting clinical trials on nicotine vaccine
- Imaging study may help point toward more effective smoking
cessation treatments
- State anti-tobacco media messages increase cessation
- Nurses effective in helping smokers quit
- New research finds combination of helpline counseling
and NRT successful
- Smokers in chronic pain still have desire to quit
- Media coverage of obesity higher than smoking cessation
- Stress hormones affect success of cessation efforts
- Attitudes about nicotine and nicotine replacement affect
NRT utilization
- Failed quit attempt related to decrease in intensity
of smoking
- Asthmatics’ lungs benefit quickly from quitting
smoking
- Products That Promise Help Seem to Prolong Vices
- Nicotine Receptors Studied
- NAQC and ENQ releases Quitlines of North America and
Europe publication
- Presentation on fostering nursing research in tobacco
cessation
- Through with Chew newsletter and survey
- Program helps deployed soldiers quit smoking
- NAQC announces founding Board of Directors
- Arkansas Quitline experiences increase in calls since
statewide ordinance implemented
- Researchers examine factors contributing to decline
in smoking rate in California
- MPAAT announces new QUITPLAN services centralized call
center
- NY state health department releases cessation report
Oklahoma State University receives grant to help smokers
quit
- Nashville program works with children to promote parental
quitting
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- Support for tobacco control policies based on demographic
factors
- July/August 2006 Legal Update published
- Texas Smokefree Ordinance Database created
- Roswell Park researchers evaluate world-wide effort
to implement tobacco control policies
- Germany to ban smoking in public places in 2007
- Chile passes comprehensive smoking ordinance
- U.S. House Judiciary Committee passes bill that protects
cigarette smugglers
- Sen. Kohl introduces bill to combat illegal internet
cigarette sales
- Sen. Collins introduces legislation to stop tobacco
shipments by mail
- Coalition of churches urges House Speaker for FDA regulation
of tobacco
- Proposed smoke-free ordinance to go on ballot in Arizona
- Alternative to Smoking Ban Makes Fall Ballot
- Arkansas governor signs rules to enforce new smoking
ordinance
- Arkansas lawmakers considering prohibiting smoking among
pregnant women
- Colorado clean indoor air act takes effect
- Loophole in Colorado smoking ordinance casts doubt on
casino exemption
- Lawmakers in Guam await stance of hotel and restaurant
association regarding newly passed ordinance
- Hawaii governor signs smokefree workplace law
- Illinois governor signs bill to allow local communities
to enact smokefree ordinances
- Mayors in five Chicago suburbs plan to pass regional
smoking ordinance
- Newly implemented ordinance in Frankfort, KY being challenged
- Louisiana governor signs smoking ordinance
- Massachusetts enacts fire-safe cigarette law
- Mississippi House Democrats drafting bill to keep tobacco
prevention program alive
- Motion to reconsider Omaha smoking ordinance dies
- NYACS Shook-Up after Tobacco Taxation Veto
- Smoke Free Ohio and Smoke Less Ohio competing for voters
- Renewed efforts to pass smoking ordinance in Oregon
- Proposal to ban smoking on Hilton Head, SC
- Federal court nixes state ban on free smokes
- Appleton, WI bar owners collecting signatures to gain
exemptions to ordinance
- Effort to overturn Cheyenne, WY ordinance failed
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- Judge Kessler rules in favor of DOJ in lawsuit against
tobacco companies
- Justice Department opposes questioning of former official
in tobacco case
- Impact of litigation against Philip Morris less than
hoped but still significant
- Big Tobacco Lied to Public, Judge Says
- Cigarette Makers Face Heavy Task of Rebranding ‘Light’
Smokes
- Tobacco Companies File for Emergency Stay of Judgement
- Statement from the Department of Justice on United States
v. Philip Morris Ruling
- RWJF Releases Statement on Ruling in Case Against Tobacco
Industry
- Statement of William V. Corr Executive Director, Campaign
for Tobacco-Free Kids
- Los Angeles tenant sues apartment over secondhand smoke
- California awaits U.S. Supreme Court decision on punitive
damages
- Bar owners file suit seeking exemption to Colorado ordinance
- Colorado theater companies consider going to court over
smoking restrictions
- Legacy’s truth® campaign vindicated again
in long legal battle with Lorillard
- Cigarette makers ask for rehearing in Florida Supreme
Court dismissal of $145 billion verdict in Engle case
- Liquor trade group challenges Springfield, IL ordinance
- Maryland family can sue tobacco companies over 2001
lung cancer death
- Workplace smoking ordinance upheld in Northwest Michigan
preemption case
- St. Paul bar owners lose ordinance challenge and liquor
trade group drops its effort
- Schwab case against Philip Morris in NY delayed
- Nevada resort operators and casinos challenge state
ordinance
- NJ casino worker sues over cancer caused by secondhand
smoke
- Tobacco farmers lawsuit settled in NC
- Judge rules that ND courts should handle tobacco payments
dispute
- Smoke Less Ohio goes to court to block smoking ordinance
- American Legion Post in Washington challenges state
ordinance
- Smokeless tobacco settlement challenged in West Virginia
- West Virginia Quitline contract upheld
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- Study recommends ‘progressive tax reform’ for Southern states
- Alabama Supreme Court rules on Jefferson County tobacco taxes
- ACS report says higher cigarette taxes needed in Arkansas
- Ballot measure proposes large increase in California cigarette tax
- California smokers to be charged taxes for internet purchases
- Colorado tax revenue to decrease as a result of new statewide ordinance
- Hawaii cigarette tax increase becomes law
- Indiana governor considering cigarette tax increase
- Montgomery County, MD passes symbolic measure to double state’s cigarette
tax
- Massachusetts Dept. of Revenue defends minimum cigarette prices
- Missouri group plans to appeal to get tobacco increase on ballot
- NJ enacts small cigarette tax increase
- NY gubernatorial candidate says will collect tax on tobacco sold on reservations
- NC cigarette tax increases to 35 cents
- Proposed tax increase in OH to benefit arts
- Campaign in SD to increase tobacco tax
- Higher cigarette tax in VT not discouraging smokers
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- Tobacco promotions foster increased likelihood of initiation
- Exposure of youth to tobacco promotions intended for adults
- Tobacco ads ubiquitous during sports TV programming
- R.J. Reynolds announces $40 million plan to defeat state ballot initiatives
- FDA urged to stop marketing of “Nic Lite” bottled water
- New smokeless tobacco products now being tested
- Big tobacco’s new smokescreen
- Imperial Tobacco may enter U.S. due to decreasing legal risks
- NASCAR edging away from tobacco industry
- Tobacco-Free Rodeo Project calendar
- Tobacco Stealth Marketing transcript
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- Public increasingly favors employer incentives to change health behaviors
- Smokers exhibit unrealistic optimism
- Smoking increases risk of impotence
- Smoking reduces effects of alcohol and increases risk of cancer when combined
with drinking
- Prenatal maternal smoking related to behavioral and auditory problems in children
- Evidence regarding health impact of cigarette availability to military personnel
- Nicotine in cigarettes may promote lung cancer
- Smoking may be related to lasting HPV infection
- Smokeless tobacco use increases risk of cataracts
- Smoking doubles risk of rheumatoid arthritis in women
- New reference guides for global health professionals and policymakers released
- California smog technician who smokes compares breath to car emissions
- Moffitt Cancer Center studying interaction of smoking and drinking
- Washington health district will not hire smokers
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- Global cancer and tobacco control conferences held in
Washington, DC
- Surgeon General Richard Carmona resigns post soon after
release of secondhand smoke report
- Rabbinical Council of America bans use of tobacco products
- Seventh-day Adventist Church holds Global Tobacco Control
Summit
- American Legacy Foundation names Eric Asche senior vice
president for marketing
- Advocates Want Anti-smoking Funding Restored
- MPAAT Unveils New Name at State Fair: ClearWay Minnesota(SM)
- Tobacco Archive Must be Maintained
- Thailand Anti-tobacco Body Slams US Ambassador
- Tobacco treatment services in MA studied for determinants
of sustainability
[ read more ]
- OSH’s STATE system updated
- Case Western Reserve University to establish Ohio Tobacco
and Research Center
[ read more ]
- CDC’s 2006 National Health Promotion Conference
- ASTHO Annual Meeting: Leveraging Public Health Leadership
- Help Your Patients Quit Smoking: Become a Tobacco Dependence
Treatment Specialist
- Tobacco Intervention: Basic Skills Training
- Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program’s
Tobacco Prevention, Education and Policy: Where We Work,
Learn, Play!
- The 3rd Annual Spit Tobacco Summit: Advancing Understanding
and Building Collaboration
- 2006 CDC/OSH National Tobacco Control Program and Evaluation
Meeting
- SOPHE Annual Meeting
- APHA 134th Annual Meeting and Exposition
- 17th Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference
- Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy,
IV
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- MPAAT Board of Directors approves additional $1 milion
in research grants
- OSH Sustaining State Programs Training for State Teams
- Multi-cultural Consultant, Michigan Department of Community
Health
- Professional Development Director, National Association
of Chronic Disease Directors
- Member Services Manager, National Association of Chronic
Disease Directors
- Public Health Educator 2, Bureau of Alcohol and Drug
Abuse Services, Tennessee Department of Health
- Division Director, Tobacco Prevention and Control (HSPA
V), North Dakota Department of Health
- Staff Attorney, Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
- Public Health Representative VI, Division of Chronic
Disease Prevention and Adult Health, New York Tobacco
Use Prevention and Control Program
- General Counsel, Action on Smoking and Health
- Program Manager, Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program
- Senior Research Scientist in Tobacco Research, Research
Triangle Institute
- Tobacco Prevention Project Policy Coordinator, Community
Wellness & Prevention Project, Contra Costa Health
Services
- Open Rank, Tenure-Track Faculty Positions Related to
Tobacco, College of Public Health, University of Arkansas
for Medical Sciences
- Northeast Regional Advocacy Director, Campaign for Tobacco-Free
Kids
- Tobacco Education and Prevention Social Marketing Director.
Division of Public Health Services, Arizona Dept. of Health
Services
- Health Education Specialist (TEPTS), California Rural
Indian Health Board, Inc.
- Senior Manager of Youth Activism and Prevention, American
Legacy Foundation
- Research Program Manager, Minnesota Partnership for
Action Against Tobacco
- Research Scientist 2 (Epidemiology), New York State
Department of Health, Division of Chronic Disease Prevention
and Adult Health Bureau of Chronic, Disease Epidemiology
and Surveillance
- Tobacco Education and Prevention Office Chief, Division
of Public Health Services, Arizona Dept. of Health Services
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