Secondhand Smoke

• Secondhand smoke damages children’s hearts
• Secondhand smoke harmful to household pets
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Youth Prevention

• Counter advertising at the cinema reduces appeal of smoking only to non-smokers
• A statewide evaluation of media literacy training to prevent tobacco use among adolescents
• Sleep deprivation can lead to smoking, drinking
• Casual smoking increasing among young Americans
• Candy cigarettes: Bringing the candy man home
• American youth continue to show strong cigarette brand preferences
• Mississippi: Tobacco use down among state students
• Singapore: Health survey suggests smoking among youngsters on the rise
• Youth smoking in Mexico
• Lawmakers to magazines: Snuff out tobacco ads
• Kansas: Crackdown targets tobacco to minors
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Disparities

• Smoking cessation processes in low SES women
• Large cigarette tax increases may reduce smoking but also lead to bootlegging
• Canadian smoking treatment focuses on aboriginals
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Cessation

• Telephone ‘quitlines’ may help dental patients stop smoking
• Genes linked to failed smoking cessation attempts identified
• Published research validates Washington’s anti-smoking efforts
• Factors associated with successful smoking cessation – United States, 2000
• Results from the 2005 British Columbia Smoking Cessation Mass Media Campaign
• Maryland: Smokers crush out habit with hotline help
• United Arab Emirates: Abu Dhabi unveils forceful anti-smoking campaign
• Anti-tobacco campaigns escalating in the black community
• Ontario smokers to get access to free nicotine gum, patches
• Registered Nurses Association of Ontario announces Integrating Smoking Cessation into Daily Nursing Practice website
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Legislative Watch

• New Hampshire bans smoking in bars, restaurants
• Oregon bar and tavern smoking ban wins final OK
• Colorado: Casino smoking ban gets Ritter’s approval
• Pennsylvania Senate approves statewide smoking ban
• New Jersey Senate moves to ban smoking in casinos
• New Jersey senators advance bill to ban smoking in cars with children
• California senators approve bill banning smoking in cars with minors
• Arizona AG wants strict local laws on tobacco sales to minors
• Michigan senate OKs partial sale of tobacco suit funds
• WHO urges all countries to ban smoking
• Taiwan: Amendment to ban indoor public smoking approved
• Slovenia cracks down on smoking
• Egypt prohibits smoking in indoor areas
• Alberta moving to butt out smoking
• China bans smoking at Olympics
• Dutch smoking ban to cover coffee shops
• Ugandan government orders cigarette companies to put big health warning labels on packets
• European Union targets huddling smokers’ last haven: the doorway
• Scotland: 18 will be minimum age for buying tobacco
• New Zealand: Bid to ban smoking
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Lawsuits

• Top court rules against Philip Morris
• Mississippi: Anti-smoking group loses funding as court sides with governor
• Suit accuses tobacco firms of targeting black consumers, seeks $1 billion in damages
• States receive supplemental MSA payments
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Excise Taxes

• Strong majority of voters nationwide favor increase in federal cigarette tax
• Tennessee House vote sends 42-cent cigarette tax hike to governor
• Oregon Senate forwards cigarette tax hike
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Tobacco Industry News

• Philip Morris USA preparing for FDA regulation of tobacco products
• Altria to close U.S. tobacco plant, save $335 million
• Altria to test Marlboro smokeless tobacco product
• R.J. Reynolds picks Raleigh to test snus
• Old ways, new means: Tobacco industry funding of academic and private sector scientists since the Master Settlement Agreement
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Cigarette smoke alters DNA in sperm, genetic damage could pass to offspring
• Babies ‘smoke’ when parents do, study confirms
• Prenatal smoke may affect sons’ later fertility
• Cigarette smoking impairs ligament healing
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Data/Reports

• American Lung Association releases the 2006 State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI)
• The national social climate of tobacco control, 2000-2005
• Exploring polytobacco use among an adult population
• MMWR Report: Decline in Smoking Prevalence NYC 2002-2006
• Passive smoking kills 100,000 Chinese annually
• Smoking deadlier than AIDS in 2015
• Thailand: Smoking prevalence has dropped 40 percent in the last 20 years
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Other Resources

• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids releases two reports detailing tobacco industry marketing expenditures
• The National Cancer Institute Presents Greater than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control
• Secondhand smoke and casinos: A law synopsis by the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
• Construction sites are workplaces, too
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Save the Date

• 2007 National Conference on Tobacco or Health
  TUS-CPS (Tobacco Use Supplement to the Current Population Survey) Users’ Workshop
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements/Awards

• Manager, External Affairs
  National Forum for Heart Disease and Stroke
  National Association of Chronic Disease Directors
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