Secondhand Smoke

• Study supports health benefits of smoking ban
• Study: ER visits for asthma drop after Lexington smoking ban (KY)
• 5 West Virginia park lodges to become smoke free in 2009 (WV)
• North Texas neighborhood bans smoking (TX)
• Site warns of smoking hazards (ND)
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Youth Prevention

• Tobacco companies find loophole in settlement stance on outdoor ads
• Adolescents' responses to anti-tobacco advertising: Exploring the role of adolescents' smoking status and advertisement theme
• Media-literate teens may be less likely to smoke cigarettes
• Home smoking bans prevent teens from lighting up
• WVU anti-tobacco program earns government kudos
• Choking on the facts (China)
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Disparities

• Tobacco policy in American prisons, 2007 (US)
• Smoking risk of cancer survivors (UK)
• American Legacy Foundation releases new resource to help underserved
• NAATEN/NNTPP National Conference presentations (US)
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Cessation

• The effect of smoke-free homes on smoking behavior in the U.S.
• BJOG release: Using nicotine replacement therapy during pregnancy
• Department of Health unveils new quit line media campaign featuring NFL Hall of Famer Darrell Green (DC)
• Little of tobacco settlement spent on smoking cessation (KS)
• Healthy Monday and About.com Health launch Quit Smoking Monday
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Legislative Watch

• Broad tobacco regulation bill clears House (US)
• Loophole in tobacco regulation bill (US)
• State legislated actions on tobacco issues: 2008 mid-term report
• Board passes tobacco ban in pharmacies (CA)
• Smoking SC government workers to pay more for insurance (SC)
• Anti-tobacco initiative petitions turned in (ND)
• Navajo president vetoes strict curbs on tobacco use (NM)
• The impact of tobacco advertising bans on consumption in developing countries
• EU to require fire-safe, self-extinguishing cigarettes by 2011
• BSJ developing cigarette warning labels for region (Caribbean)
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Legal

• How to make a condo complex smokefree
• Reynolds Tobacco claims show litigation discount  (FL)
• Judge declines to put smoking ban on hold (IA)
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium’s  latest issue of the Legal Update
• Berlin pubs force U-turn on smoking ban (Germany)
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Excise Taxes

• Updated list of state cigarette tax rates and rankings
• Paterson to negotiate with Native Americans over cigarette taxes (NY)
• Cigarette taxes are up -- so is smuggling (MD)
• Pact may help settle Oklahoma tobacco dispute (OK)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Canadian companies settle cigarette smuggling case (Canada)
• Philip Morris International caught in Philippines in another concert sponsorship (Philippines)
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Gene linked to early nicotine addiction
• Stroke risk in women smokers goes up by each cigarette
• Few aware that smoking can cause bladder cancer
• Secondhand smoke raises stroke risk for spouses
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Data/Reports

• Adult smoking rate plunges in Mass. (MA)
• Less smoke getting into Arkansans' eyes (AR)
• Smoking prevalence among women of reproductive age — United States, 2006
• National Cancer Institute’s Tobacco Control Monograph 19: The role of the media in promoting and reducing tobacco use
• The world's heaviest-smoking countries
• California Tobacco Control Program saved billions of dollars (CA)
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Save the Date

• 6th Annual National LGBTQ Anti-Tobacco Summit:
  Be A Movement, Not A Market
• African American Tobacco Control Conference:
  A Community Under Siege: The State of Black California and Tobacco Use
• 2008 Wisconsin Tobacco Prevention & Control Conference:
  Accelerating Change with Best Practices
• 20th National Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
• The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
• 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
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Requests for Proposals/Other Announcements

• Call for Applications: National LGBT Tobacco Control Network seeking states to participate in demonstration project
• 2009 National Conference on Tobacco or Health Call for Abstracts
• New TTAC Web Calendar
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Job Announcements

• Tobacco Program Research Analyst
• Managing Senior Fellow
• Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Associate Director for Media Advocacy
• Public Health Epidemiologist II
• Health Program Manager
• Project Coordinator
• Manager, Collaboration and Outreach-National Partners
• Health Policy Educator
• Tobacco Cessation Director
• Training and Outreach Specialist
• Medical Officer
• Head of Indonesia Programs
• Research Scientist 5 (Epidemiology)
• Epidemiologist
• Research Scientist
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