Secondhand Smoke

• Is smoking ban to blame for Hawaii tourism slump?
• Air pollution down 83% in Dublin since Ireland’s smoking ban took effect
• New Jersey smoking ban, 1 year later: Some still fume while others breathe deeply
• Indoor air quality in restaurants with and without designated smoking rooms
• Study says Colorado indoor air improved since statewide smoking ban
• Report shows smoking a bigger polluter than traffic
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Youth Prevention

• Adolescents with conduct disorder: early smoking and treatment requests
• New report shows Massachusetts is falling behind in protecting kids from tobacco
• Teenager brains are wired for risky behavior
• Harvard group joins anti-smoking stand
• Smokeless tobacco comes with many health hazards
• Through Raze, teens tear down tobacco lies
• Truth ® continues to present baffling Q’s and A’s in documentary-style campaign
• Vermont Department of Health launches "Butts of Hollywood" campaign
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Disparities

• Views on smoking cessation methods in ethnic minority communities: A qualitative investigation
• Anti-tobacco efforts growing in African-Aerican community
• Anti-smoking groups lobbies for help for low-income smokers
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Cessation

• Nicotine lozenges for the treatment of smokeless tobacco use
• NIDA study identifies genes that might help some people abstain from smoking
• Antismoking television advertising and socioecono
• ic variations in calls to Quitline
• Dairy, fruits and veggies may help smokers quit
• Social workers can help older smokers
• Post-intervention effect of nicotine replacement therapy for smoking reduction: A randomized trial with 5 year follow up
• Free nicotine patches offred to quitters
• New York City Heath Department offering nicotine replacement to smokers who call 311 before May 15th
• Chinese anti-smoking campaign gets underway
• Eleven thousand smokers will receive free nicotine replacement therapy
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Legislative Watch

• “Little cigars” labeling loophole closing
• Missouri health officials need money for smoking program
• Smokeless yearning for FDA guidance
• Texas Senate approves raising smoking age to 19
• Virginia deal the latest sign of tobacco’s return
• Minnesota House passes smoking ban
• Australian Court bans ‘wallet smokes’
• Malaysia to step up anti-smoking campaign as more women light up
• British plans for clamp on teenage smoking
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Lawsuits

• Nevada smoke ruling faces appeal
• New web site with information for individuals injured by cigarettes in Florida
• Colorado smoking ban smoldering after judge rejects it
• Massachusetts Court sends tobacco-money dispute to arbitration panel
• Tobacco case denied class-action status
• New York Court refuses to revive smoking suit filed years after limitations period
• Kansas High court considers city’s ban on smoking
• Maryland AG leads national litigation efforts against tobacco company
• Cancer Society sues state over smoking exemptions for clubs
• Canada court denies foreign tobacco firms’ lawsuit amnesty
• Ireland High Court dismisses tobacco damage claims
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Excise Taxes

• Indiana cigarettes tax increases by 44 cents to help cover the uninsured
• South Carolina House approves cigarette tax bump
• Tennessee House panel restores Bredesen’s cigarette tax proposal
• Sin tax on smokers up $5 per carton in Alberta
• Row rumbles over hookah tax break
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Tobacco Industry News

• Cigarettes, cigars, and smoking tobacco analyzed in the German tobacco market
• Imperial Tobacco completes purchase of Commonwealth
• Business Tobacco Alliance
• Altadis spurns revised Imperial Tobacco offer
• General Tobacco makes their largest payment to the Master Settlement Agreement
• R.J. Reynolds makes settlement payment
• Marlboro explains tobacco liveries
• Japan Tobacco acquires Gallaher Group
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Low-tar cigarettes just as harmful, Hong Kong study finds
• Passive smoking linked with tuberculosis risk in children
• Secondhand smoke may be associated with bone loss in subjects with periodontitis
• Smoking may kill male fetuses
• Smoking in pregnancy tied to mental health problems
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Data/Reports

• Study: Few Asian smokers try to quit
• Study of California’s tobacco control
• Global momentum for smokefree indoor environments at tipping point
• Tobacco smoking by occupation in Australia: results from the 2004 to 2005 National Health Survey
• Federal Trade Commission releases 2004-2005 Cigarette and Smokeless Tobacco Reports
• Texas economic impact study reveals prevention, wellness, and smoking cessation programs will result in significant net economic gains, jobs
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Other Resources

• Smokefree Advice for Businesses
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
• Coming increases to state MSA payments in April 2008: New funding for tobacco prevention
• How to Run a Culturally Competent LGBT Smoking Treatment Group
• Legal Options for Tenants Suffering from Drifting Tobacco Smoke fact sheet
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Save the Date

• Putting the Industry’s Words to Work
• American Indian Tobacco Cessation and Health Conference
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements/Awards

• Racial and ethnic approaches to community health across the U.S.
• Youth Empowerment Coordinator, Montana Tobacco Use Prevention Program
• Public Health Program Director 2 Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program - Tennessee Department of Health
• Director of Research in the Research and Evaluation Department at the American Legacy Foundation
• Public Health Program Consultant II Chronic Disease and Injury
  Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch - North Carolina
• Fellowship Opportunity in Health Psychology/Behavioral Medicine and Cancer Control
• Sybil G. Jacobs Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents
• Christine O. Gregoire Youth/Young Adult Award for Outstanding Use of Tobacco Industry Documents
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