Second Hand Smoke

• Lung cancer risk and workplace exposure to environmental tobacco smoke
• Tobacco Assistance Legal Center introduces model ordinances
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium – Legal Update January 2007
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium – Legal Update February 2007
• ANR launches updated Protect Local Control website
• Anti-smoking American milestone reached
• U.S. Capitol going smokefree!
• District of Columbia and Louisiana smokefree laws take effect
• Council supports smoking ban in cars
• Minnesota secondhand smoke ad campaign asks ‘Are You OK With That?’
• Fostering good child care: Take smoking outside
• EU could impose smoking ban across continent
• EU administrative office repeals smoking ban after only 43 days
• Anti-smoking bans extended today
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Youth Prevention

• Annual Monitoring the Future survey: Decline in daily smoking among younger teens has ended
• National survey: U.S. adults support new R-rating for films with tobacco
• Family programs can help keep kids from smoking
• Teenagers’ perceptions of blindness related to smoking- novel message to a vulnerable group
• Characteristics of social smoking among college students
• Helping Young Smokers Quit offers a new literature database on its Web site
• Increased dose of truth youth smoking prevention campaign coming to a town near youNew York County increases age for cigarette purchase
• Tobacco use among students aged 13-15 years in Greece: The GYTS project
• United Kingdom smoking age limit to rise to 18
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Disparities

• Racial/Ethnic and socioeconomic differences in multiple risk factors for heart disease and stroke in women: behavioral risk factor surveillance system, 2003
• Socioeconomic status and trends in disparities in 4 major risk factors for cardiovascular disease among US adults, 1971-2002
• Views on smoking cessation methods in ethnic minority communities: A qualitative investigation
• Tobacco use and low-income African Americans: Policy implications
• Beliefs about tobacco use in African Americans
• Ghettoizing outdoor advertising: Disadvantage and ad panel density in black neighborhoods
• Reaching and treating Spanish-speaking smokers through the National Cancer Institute's cancer information service: A randomized controlled trial
• Smoking cessation for a pan-tribal native population
• LGBT Tobacco Online Resource Library
• Anti-smoking experts urged to target gays
• Stop-smoking efforts reaching out to homeless
• Ontario takes direct aim at Aboriginal smokers
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Cessation

• State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments – United States, 2005
• Organization, financing, promotion, and cost of U.S. quitlines, 2004
• Use of smoking cessation methods among smokers aged 16-24 years, United States, 2003
• Anti-smoking campaigns: Gore works best
• Spot in brain may control smoking urge
• Nicotine dependence gene mapped to Chromosome 5
• Intensive care helps smokers quit, study finds
• Butt kicking may be harder if mom smoked during pregnancy
• New National Business Group on Health Survey shows majority of American employers believe they should help employees quit smoking
• Employer-sponsored tobacco cessation programs are inexpensive and effective
• Tools for health: The efficacy of a tailored intervention targeted for construction laborers
• GlaxoSmithKline giveaway of nicotine replacement therapy
• Nicogel in the hand a surrogate for tobacco in the lungs
• Behind antismoking policy, influence of drug industry
• Georgia slashes tobacco money used to combat smoking
• Tobacco tax to pay for three tries at quitting
• Graphic smoking images approved
• Belgium wants to shock smokers out of their habit
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Legislative Watch

• New push grows for FDA regulation of tobacco
• Anti-smoking group seeks more state prevention spending
• Iowa smoking-ban bill advances
• Kansas smoking ban snuffed, for now
• Sheran leads push for smoking ban in Minnesota
• Mississippi passes bill to create and fund state tobacco control program
• Nebraska senators debate statewide smoking ban
• New Jersey lawmakers to consider total casino smoking ban
• NH takes first step to ban smoking in bars, restaurants
• Ohio health department reveals proposed no-smoking rules
• Bill for fire-safe cigarettes passes House panel
• Pennsylvania smoking ban bill sent to Senate
• Tennessee Governor’s plan draws mixed reaction
• Fight shaping up at Texas Capitol over proposed smoking ban
• Senate gives preliminary OK to smoking measure
• Smoking ban not likely this year in Virginia
• ‘Smoking permitted’ sign legislation
• Ban on smoking in cars with kids passes Senate
• Doyle to seek statewide smoking ban, tobacco tax hike
• Nepal drafts anti-tobacco legislation
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Lawsuits

• Carolina Tobacco to pay $31 million in national settlement
• Court tosses punitive damages against Big Tobacco
• Supreme Court agrees to take Philip Morris case
• Tobacco lawsuits now can proceed in federal court in California
• Connecticut Supreme Court upholds smoking ban in restaurants, bars
• Panel lets smoking ban stay in place
• Tobacco settlement nets Kentucky nearly $1 million
• Cigarette makers must fund cessation plan, court says
• Supreme Court seeks government view in Maine tobacco shipping case
• U.S. court won’t hear challenge to state cigarette fee
• Smoking ban stands in Nevada, with modifications
• Court rejects South Korea’s first anti-tobacco lawsuits
• Supreme Court of Canada to hear tobacco advertising case
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Excise Taxes

• Tobacco tax fact sheets available
• Analysis of pre-election field polls regarding Proposition 86, the tax on cigarettes initiative
• Indiana cigarette tax increase of 54.5 cents advances
• Maryland lawmakers propose cigarette tax increase to fund health care programs
• Mississippi passes bill to raise cigarette taxes
• Oregon cigarette tax clears key hurtle
• Cigarette tax increases take effect in South Dakota and Texas
• Anti-smoking forces attack on several legislative fronts
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Tobacco Industry News

• Harvard study confirms tobacco companies increased nicotine levels in cigarettes, highlights need for FDA regulation of tobacco
• Avoiding "truth": Tobacco industry promotion of life skills training
• Tobacco firms may cut payments to states - report
• States’ responses differ in response to decline in Master Settlement funds
• Philip Morris breaks promise not to fight smoke-free laws even as evidence grows of health risks from secondhand smoke
• Philip Morris USA raises prices on smaller brands
• University of Virginia receives $25 million for Philip Morris
• Altria Group, Inc. to spin-off Kraft Foods, Inc.
• Imperial Tobacco to buy Commonwealth to enter United States
• RJ Reynolds gets over the ‘hump’ with Camel No. 9 for women
• Godfrey Philips launches slim cigarettes
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Study finds association between tobacco smoking and increased risk of tuberculosis
• Families face heart risks as men smoke at home
• Switching to smokeless tobacco no cure
• Exposure to secondhand smoke and biomarkers of cardiovascular disease risk in never-smoking adults
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Other Resources

• Survey Questionnaire Design Resource
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library launches new version
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Save the Date

• States of Change: Exploring How to Facilitate Tobacco-Free Environments and Communities through Policy and Systems Change
• Evidence-Based Public Health: A Course in Chronic Disease Prevention
• 3rd National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex Health Summit
• The 6th National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults
• Kick Butts Day 2007
• 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
• 5th LGBT Tobacco Summit
• 2007 National Conference on Tobacco or Health
• Society for Public Health Education Annual Meeting
• American Public Health Association Annual Meeting
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements

• American Legacy Foundation
• Health Education Specialist CDC Office on Smoking and Health, Program Services Branch
• Development Manager Global Tobacco Control Initiative Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
• Health Education Consultant I California Department of Health Services
• Project Manager National Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Tobacco Control Network
• Manager of Health and Social Marketing Communications Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota
• Community Education Specialist Drexel University
• Associate Director of Field Operations Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
• Associate Director of Advocacy Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
• Director of Cessation Services Ohio Tobacco Prevention Foundation
• Director of Research International Advocacy Resource Center Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
• Manager for Cessation Services American Legacy Foundation
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Data/Reports

• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: Annual state tobacco control spending report
• Tobacco use among adults - United States, 2005
• Tobacco-related diseases to take high toll, study finds
• China warned of rising tobacco use
• Smoking costs China 250 billion Yuan last year
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