Second Hand Smoke

• Heart attacks decline in Pueblo, CO after smoking ban
• Smoking ban reduces heart risk
• Second hand smoke linked to long-term harm
• JAMA study finds Scotland's smoke-free law quickly improved bar workers' health, shows why all workplaces should be smoke-free
• Actuaries: Cost of nonsmokers’ exposure to second hand smoke nearly $6 billion a year
• Air Quality: Indoor air pollution decreased by 88% in bars and restaurants
• Air Quality five-times worse where smoking allowed
• Global Indoor Air Quality Study
• Smoke-filled cars: New fodder for the clean air fight
• Observed smoking in cars: A method and differences by socioeconomic area
• Group pushes to alter smoking ban
• City approves smoking law
• Council approves new smoking ban
• Smoking ban arrives at hospitals, clinics
• City snuffs public smoking
• Omaha smoking ban takes effect
• Onorato signs smoking ban
• Philadelphia Mayor Signs Smoking Ban
• Bar owners ask: Is this thing on?
• City council expands indoor smoking ban to most bars
• Residents react to new smoking restrictions
• NCI announces new smoke-free meeting policy to address major public health hazard
• NIDA Announces Smoke-Free Meeting Policy
• French public spaces among the world’s smokiest
• Smoking ban set for start
• Updated Office of Smoking Health (OSH) Resources
• New Smoke-Free Laws Lists and Maps
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Youth Prevention

• Cigarette use among high school students- United States, 1991-2005
• Global trend of smoking tobacco through a water pipe or hookah means more young people and women have taken up the habit
• California state PTA alarmed by most recent smoking statistics among California's youth, urges support of Proposition 86
• Family diner table prevents teen addictions
• Get wise to subliminal messages in cigarette ads: teens would be half as likely to smoke
• Early use of nicotine could increase susceptibility for life-long addiction
• Peer and parental influences on longitudinal trajectories of smoking among African Americans and Puerto Ricans
• Association of cigarette smoking and media literacy about smoking among adolescents
• Reasons for wanting to quit: Ethnic differences among cessation-seeking adolescent smokers
• The relationship of cigars, marijuana, and blunts to adolescent bidi use
• No more single cigarette sales in St. Paul
• United Methodist Men join effort to help reduce teen smoking
• Cigarette vending machines to require ID cards from 2008
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Disparities

• Renters as passive smokers?
• Menthol cigarettes may hook smokers: study
• Peer and parental influences on longitudinal trajectories of smoking among African Americans and Puerto Ricans
• ‘Iron chain’ links smoking and poverty
• Daughters of smokers pay heavily for their mothers’ habit
• Persistent tobacco use during pregnancy and the likelihood of psychiatric disorders
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Cessation

• Women who quit smoking during pregnancy less likely to remain nonsmokers because of concerns about weight, study says
• Drug may help women stop smoking
• Weight concerns affect motivation to remain abstinent from smoking postpartum
• Safety of "Alternative" Tobacco Products, Effort To Study Lead By Georgetown
• Menthol cigarettes, smoking cessation, atherosclerosis, and pulmonary function
• Interest in an online smoking cessation program and effective recruitment strategies: Results from Project Quit
• Results of the TCLN Survey of Statewide Implementation of Tobacco Cessation Services
• NAQC Connections
• Tobacco users can call Quitline
• Low-price nicotine patches offered to Ohio's uninsured
• Firm to pay smoking employees to quit
• New public health program shows smokers how to become an EX(SM)
• Great Start provides information, support for pregnant smokers
• Helping Smokers Quit: A Role for Smokeless Tobacco?
• Code Blue for Lung Cancer program launched
• Pfizer's anti-smoking pill Champix approved in Europe
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Legislative Watch

• Election 2006: Beating Big Tobacco at the Ballot Box
• Debate, confusion over Propositions 201 and 206
• Cigarette tax plan would insure kids, reimburse ER care
• The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention spurs the Latino Congresso to adopt Proposition 86 resolution
• Mayor Seeks Millions for Health Needs
• At polls, you’ll decide on 6 amendments
• Missouri to vote on tax increase
• Smoking initiatives cloud ballot: Health, biz in opposition
• Nevada Clean Indoor Air Act would focus on compromise of divisive issue
• No cigs at 18?
• Smoking-ban battle takes shape in Ohio
• Proposal would forbid smoking in most public places
• Council OKs Third Vote on Appleton Smoking Ban
• Nova Scotia to restrict in-store tobacco advertising as it prepares for smoking ban
• Iran bans smoking in public places
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Lawsuits

• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium – Legal Update September 2006
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium – Legal Update October 2006
• Class-action status OK'd in tobacco case
• Tobacco companies challenge class status of 'lights' case
• Judge denies 'light' cigarettes request
• Judge dismisses lawsuit against tobacco companies
• Court rejects tobacco case appeal
• Supreme Court to hear arguments October 31 in Philip Morris case
• Philip Morris wins temporary delay in class action
• Attorneys General and R.J. Reynolds reach historic settlement to end the sale of flavored cigarettes
• Pueblo DA joins suit to snuff smoking ban
• Colorado smoking ban upheld
• Judge rejects separate account for $20 M in anti-tobacco money
• Smoking ban battle reignites
• Tobacco company fights cigarette curbs
• Tobacco chief warns of damage from Canada lawsuits
• Altria, Tobacco companies can face trial in Canada, court rules
• EU refers Italy to Court of Justice
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Excise Taxes

• What is Proper Tax Policy for Smokeless Tobacco Products?
• Tobacco firms spend big to stop tax
• Big Tobacco’s Showdown in the West
• Smokers, get set for higher prices
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Tobacco Industry News

• The tobacco industry’s role in the 16 Cities Study of Secondhand Tobacco Smoke: Do the data support the stated conclusions?
• Pricey cigar trend back from the ashes
• Philip Morris USA Comments on the Massachusetts Department of Public Health Report on Nicotine Yields
• Philip Morris International announces framework license agreement with Altadis for Asia
• Taking ad-vantage of lax advertising regulations: Reassuring and distracting health-concerned smokers
• Finding the Kool Mixx: How Brown & Williamson used music marketing to sell cigarettes
• Tobacco point-of-purchase promotion: Examining tobacco industry documents
• Campaign Contributions by Tobacco Interests Annual Report: September 2006
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smokers may have higher risk of HIV
• Smoking in pregnancy harms infant immune system
• Sudden Infant Death Syndrome and reported maternal smoking during pregnancy
• Smoking doesn’t slim girls; stunts boys’ growth
• Double Jeopardy: Obese smokers at higher risk of death
• Smokers less productive than nonsmokers, survey finds
• 25% of smokers get lung disease
• New blood test may detect lung cancer
• Cancer deaths fall as smoking declines
• State cuts sharply number of adults who smoke
• Nicotine receptors found on kidney cells
• Cigarettes pack more nicotine
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Data/Reports

• MMWR - Cigarette Smoking Among Adults-United States, 2005
• MMWR - State-Specific Prevalence of Current Cigarette Smoking Among Adults and Secondhand Smoke Rules and Policies in Homes and Workplaces-United States, 2005
• National Health Interview Survey Data
• NIH State-of-the-Science Conference on Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation, and Control Final Statement
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Other News

• NCCDPHP Director Announcement - Office on Smoking and Health
• Weinstein Co. to place anti-smoking PSAs in DVD releases of films
• World’s 3 out of 10 cigarettes smoked in China
• Australia bans tobacco advertising at Formula One Grand Prix
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Save the Date

• SRNT's 13th Annual Meeting
• 3rd National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Health Summit
• The 6th National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults
• 17th Annual Art and Science of Health Promotion Conference
• Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, IV
• Wisconsin Tobacco Control & Prevention Conference
• The National Association of Local Boards of Health Conference
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements

• RWJF Substance Abuse Policy Research Program
• Dissemination Specialist, American Legacy Foundation
• Tobacco Prevention and Education Program Manager
  Bureau of Community Health Nevada State Health Division
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