Secondhand Smoke

• Secondhand smoke hurts kids' grades
• Do broad smoking bans cloud belief of risk?
• USA: Study finds that heart attacks in non-smokers decreased with smoking ban
• Best cities for smokers
• A new arena in the fight over smoking: The home
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Youth Prevention

• EU launches anti-smoking virals
• Smokin' in the boys (and girls) room
• Emotional intelligence and the use of tobacco and cannabis
• The effect of working for pay on adolescent tobacco use
• Effect of restrictions on smoking at home, at school, and in public places on teenage smoking: cross sectional study
• Association between national smoking prevention campaigns and perceived smoking prevalence among youth in the United States
• RJR drops print ads
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Disparities

• The smoking scourge among urban blacks
• Studies show smoking harms women more than men
• Conceptual and methodological issues for research on tobacco-related health disparities
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Cessation

• Carbon monoxide test helps doctors determine patients' smoking status
• NRT 'doubles quit rate on its own'
• Anti-smoking shot helps some smokers quit
• PDAs helping smokers quit
• Why quitting smoking is so difficult
• Smokers go for broke while quitters save
• Nicotine addiction slashed in test of new cigarette smoking strategy
• Pfizer anti-smoking drug under FDA safety review
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Legislative Watch

• Tobacco Industry Faces Formidable Opponent: Support for SCHIP Expansion
• Wu tries to contain damage to SCHIP
• Senate seeks to clear hazy 'light' cigarette label
• Senate ends cigarette sales on Capitol Hill
• Lung Cancer Alliance Hails Massachusetts Senator for Taking Lead on Lung Cancer Legislation
• The economic impact of clean indoor air laws
• EU Parliment calls for workplace smoking ban
• As the smoke clears: The myths and reality of smoke-free England
• Act now on cigarettes, expert says
• Charity calls for cigarette machine ban
• Residents fume as smoking banned in parks, near kids
• China tries to wean itself from its tobacco habit
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Legal

• Smokers fuming as ban looms at Churchill Downs
• Now, the stick: Workers pay for poor health habits
• Uphold tobacco verdict, U.S. asks
• Landlord fined over smoking ban
• Nigeria sues over child smokers
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Excise Taxes

• Educated NY smokers dodge cigarette taxes—report
• Health plan gets burned after state's costliest race
• Reynolds faces a new cigarette-tax battle: California is poised to follow Oregon with ballot initiative
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Tobacco Industry News

• Tobacco industry research and protection of human subjects:  A case study of R. J. Reynolds
• Calls for Change: Demonstrators march to Reynolds American, protesting farmworkers' conditions
• Altria buys cigar maker John Middleton for $2.9 billion
• Tobacco giants' profits remain golden
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smoking does not keep you slim - study
• Are smokers only using cigarettes? Exploring current polytobacco use among an adult population
• Tobacco deaths to reach 10 million a year by 2030
• Asian Men Who Smoke May Have Increased Risk For Hair Loss
• Pregnancy smoking fertility link
• Smokers remain unaware of the health effects of smoking, new survey finds
• West Virginia kicks off a prevention campaign aimed at women who smoke while pregnant
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Data/Reports

• Tobacco: The smoking gun
• Big tobacco has a big influence in California: Effective anti-smoking advertising, research, and legislation all blunted by campaign contributions and lawsuits
• Cigarette smoking among adults—United States, 2006
• Lung Cancer Alliance launches lung cancer awareness month with third annual report card on lung cancer
• A midpoint assessment of the American Cancer Society Challenge goal to decrease cancer incidence by 25% between 1992 and 2015
• Smokers Cost Medicaid System Nearly $10 Billion
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Other Resources

• New videos on smoke-free restaurants, bars, and hotels
• Are You an Accidental Smoker?
• Code blue for lung cancer
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Save the Date

• The 7th Annual National Tobacco Symposium on Young Adults
• The 4th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
• Access 2008: Building a Tobacco-Free Future
• Kick Butts Day 2008
• Promising Practices from the Field: Tobacco Control Strategies that Work!
• The 5th “Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy” conference
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements/Awards

Jobs:

• Grassroots Advocacy Director
  Founders Affiliate of the American Heart Association
  (MA,NJ, NY, NH, VM,CN, RI)
• Tobacco Prevention Program Epidemiologist
  Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services
• Health Care Analyst 3
  Public Health Informatics
  Northrop Grumman, Atlanta, GA  USA
• Various Positions
  The Bureau of Tobacco Control
  NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene - New York, NY

Awards:

• Priority Populations Intervention: Latino Communities
• 2008 American Legacy Foundation scholarship to increase diversity in nicotine and tobacco research
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