Secondhand Smoke

• The diffusion and impact of clean indoor air laws
• Poll: 69% back smoke-free state laws (WI)
• Private Lilydale club is attracting cigar lovers despite state's smoking ban
• Places that allow smoking on water are harder to find
• Half of Europe's workforce remain unprotected from secondhand smoke at work
• Smoking bans should be part of lease: landlords
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Youth Prevention

• Smoking still prominent on campuses nationwide
• Prenatal exposure to drugs, alcohol and tobacco affect the brain into early adolescence, scans show
• 2006 National Youth Tobacco Survey and Key Prevalence Indicators
• Ads urge grocery stores to give up cigarettes
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Disparities

• Better-educated smokers more likely to quit after seeing ads
• Highest smoking rates
• Study finds racial disparities in smoking cessation treatment
• Anti-smoking message not reaching Aborigines: report
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Cessation

• Smoking after cardiac transplantation
• Clinician perceptions of factors influencing referrals to a smoking cessation program
• Sex hormones 'hit smoke success'
• First national quit smoking campaign readies launch
• Celebrating Mother's Day, smokefree
• Effort under way to reduce number of smokeless-tobacco users (WV)
• Smoking while pregnant: Maternal struggle (OR)
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Legislative Watch

• American Lung Associations summary of state tobacco laws
• Bill to force FDA tobacco regulation moves through energy and commerce
• Smoking ban has apparently cut into revenue from charitable gambling (MN)
• U researcher: Study shows smoking ban reduces risk (MN)
• Law prohibiting smoking in cars gets Baldacci OK (ME)
• Iowa Gov. signs indoor smoking ban (IA)
• A.C. bans smoking on floor of casinos (NJ)
• Beijing drops restaurants in smoking ban (China)
• Duma ratifies anti-smoking treaty (Russia)
• Smoke screens go up: Stores prepare for cigarette display ban effective May 31 (Canada)
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Legal

• Appeals court bars class action against makers of light cigarettes
• There is No Constitutional Right to Smoke: 2008
• Columbia on track to curtail smoking (SC)
• Anti-smoking fund in ashes: Ohio leaders take almost all for other projects (OH)
• State sues bar for smoking 'show' (MN)
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Excise Taxes

• New York cigarette tax increase delivers victory for kids and taxpayers (NY)
• Cigarette tax increase credited with drop in sales (IA)
• House lawmakers give initial approval to tax package (MA)
• States look to tobacco tax for budget holes
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Tobacco Industry News

• RJR adds test cities: Smokeless snus 'gaining traction'
• Philip Morris USA, RJR pay tobacco settlements
• Actual payments and actual increases in MSA over 2007 and 2008
• Tobacco farmers 'desperate' (Canada)
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Cigarette company paid for lung cancer study
• Smoking after heart attack lifts risk of second
• Lung cancer genes identified
• Mouth may tell the tale of lung damage caused by smoking
• Smoking related to subset of colorectal cancers with absent DNA repair proteins
• Aging: Smoking, drinking and Alzheimer's risk
• Secrets of smuggled cigarettes (UK)
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Data/Reports

• Database of Campaign Contributions of Tobacco Interests
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Other Resources

• SCLC Catalogue of Tools
• The rise of cigars and cigar-smoking harms
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Save the Date

• The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids 12th annual Youth Advocates of the Year Gala
• The 5th "Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy" conference
• Fifth World Conference on Nonsmokers' Rights
• 8th Annual CDC/AEA Summer Evaluation Institute
• Accelerating Change with Best Practices, the 2008 Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Conference
• The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
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Announcements/Requests for Proposals/Awards

Announcements:

• Let's Talk: Help Teens Quit Teleconference
• The LGBT Tobacco Network
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Job Announcements

• Postdoctoral Fellow
• Research Scientist 5 (Epidemiology)
• Epidemiology Branch Chief
  
• Public Health Educator
• Epidemiologist State Tobacco Use Program
• Health Services Consultant 3 - Community Contracts Manager
• Attorney - Public Interest / Public Health
• Evaluation Manager (Research Analyst 4)
  
• Youth Activism Coordinator
  
• Program Officer
  
• Research Scientist
  
• Executive Assistant
  
• Associate Director of Research
  
• Research Associate
  
• Program Officer
  
• Sr. Program Associate
  
• Tobacco Control Researcher
  
• Project Coordinator
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