Secondhand Smoke

• California anti-smoking laws save thousands of lives, new study finds
• New report says secondhand smoke costs Minnesota $215.7 million annually
• South African restaurants report “no loss” as result of smoking ban
• 15,000 Scottish smokers quit after smoking ban
• Baltimore smoking ban passed; focus shifts to state legislation
• Colorado Senate OKs casino smoking ban
• New Mexico 17th state to pass smoking ban
• North Carolina bill would extinguish indoor smoking statewide
• Minnesota Senate says yes to statewide smoking ban
• Maryland Legislature OKs statewide smoking ban
• All 433 domestic Comfort Suites branded hotels will be 100% smoke-free
• British Columbia bans indoor smoking in public places
• No smoking, no swearing during Olympics
• Sydney suburb bans all public smoking
• German states agree to smoking ban with exemptions
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Youth Prevention

• R-rated movies, bedroom televisions, and initiation of smoking by white and black adolescents
• Factors related to adolescents’ estimation of peer smoking prevalence
• Hookah use – 1st new tobacco use trend of the 21st century – carries many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking
• More than 1.8 million college students smoke, new CASA research reports
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Disparities

• Black children especially vulnerable to second-hand tobacco smoke
• Beliefs and experiences regarding smoking cessation among American Indians
• Pennsylvania health department launches new Web site to help Hispanic smokers quit tobacco
• New York program helping mentally ill smokers
• St. Louis County hopes to put a dent in Bosnians’ smoking
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Cessation

• Counseling by student-dentists helps patients quit smoking
• Calls to Canadian Quitline up twenty seven percent
• Drugs help smokers quit, even if not the first time
• Burn off cigarette craving with exercise
• Successful participant recruitment strategies for an online smokeless tobacco cessation program
• LGBT Tobacco Control Network releases book on cultural competent LGBT tobacco treatment
• The American Legacy Foundation and Mayo Clinic collaborate to reduce smoking rates
• New online tobacco treatment training program announced
• American Academy of Family Physicians Announce ‘Ask and Act’ Website
• WHO to launch large-scale anti-tobacco campaign in Bangkok
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Legislative Watch

• FDA is right agency to regulate tobacco products
• FDA chief: Don't regulate tobacco
• U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions: The need for FDA regulation of tobacco products
• Kennedy wants panel to look at Louisiana tobacco settlement sale
• Ohio Governor plans to shift tobacco money away from health programs
• Ohio proposal would ease smoking ban
• Iowa State Senate gives cities, counties power to pass smoking restrictions
• Bill introduced in Nevada would make tobacco possession illegal for juveniles
• Anti-smoking group asks U.S. National Slavery Museum to return Philip Morris donation
• Corpse, cancer images to confront Indian smokers
• FDA & Tobacco Legislation: S. 625 and H.R. 1108
• FDA & Tobacco Fact Sheets: Food & Drug Administration authority over tobacco
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Lawsuits

• High courts sends tobacco case back to Oregon again
• Smoking case going back to state court
• Appeals court won’t rehear its tobacco decision
• Judge nixes a South Carolina city’s indoor-smoking ban
• State justices take tobacco case
• United States judge rules tobacco ad curbs extend overseas
• Tobacco firms want 2002 verdict thrown out
• Clearing the air: Anti-smoking group wins one
• Congress probes Department of Justice meddling in tobacco case
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Excise Taxes

• Senate approves budget, backs tobacco tax hike
• In Texas, cigarette tax sales up $53.3 million in new year
• Tobacco industry mobilizes to fight a proposed tax hike in Maine
• Iowa passed $1 per pack tobacco tax increase
• Excise duties: Chancellor’s tax double-whammy to persuade smokers to give up
• Indian government hikes excise duty on cigarettes, bidis
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Tobacco Industry News

• British American Tobacco gains 7.3 percent on sales in developing markets
• Category wars: Philip Morris, RJR raise stakes to win retailers
• Japan Tobacco wins takeover nod
• Altadis rejects € 11.5 billion bid from Imperial Tobacco
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Fresh evidence of perils of smoking while pregnant
• Quitting smoking reduces risk of lung cancer mortality by 70 percent
• Smoking in car ‘doubles asthma risk for kids’
• Smoking linked with aging on skin that usually is not exposed to sunlight
• Smoking lowers Parkinson’s disease risk
• Arteries benefit from smoking cessation
• Pancreatic cancer, smoking linked
• Smoking may impair teens’ attention
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Data/Reports

• Drugs or tobacco: Which is worse?
• New York City Health Department reports few city women are smoking
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Other Resources

• Office on Smoking and Health’s new website
• American Society of Health-System Pharmacists has updated its website
• New national survey finds most Americans don’t know what’s in a cigarette
• Tobacco Laws Affecting California booklet
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Save the Date

• Women and Tobacco: Consequences and Solutions
• Changing the Face of Health Education and Health Promotion
• The 8th International Conference of Human Services Information Technology Applications
• 5th National Conference on Tobacco or Health – call for abstracts
• CDC to host National Prevention and Health Promotion Summit: Creating a culture of Wellness
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements

• Substance Abuse Policy Research Program - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  (Due May 2007)
• Assessment of Proposed Revisions to the Youth Tobacco Survey Grant (Due May 11, 2007)
• Improving Public Health Practice through Translational Research R18 Grant (Due April 2007)
• Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy R01 grant (Due May 2007)
• Understanding and Promoting Health Literacy R03 grant - small grant mechanism (Due May 2007)
• Improving Public Health Practice through Translation Research R18 grant (Due April 2007)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Services Research R01 Grant (Multiple Due Dates)
• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Health Services Research Demonstration and Dissemination R18 Grants (Multiple Due Dates)
• Health Research with Diverse Populations R01 Grant (Multiple Due Dates)
• Director of Research, Research and Evaluation, American Legacy Foundation
• Public Health Program Consultant II, Chronic Disease and Injury/Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch, North Carolina
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