Secondhand Smoke

• New research explains link between SIDS and smoking
  
• Case links woman's death to environmental tobacco smoke, MSU prof says
• Smoking ban brings dramatic improvement in air, study says
• Ashtrays, lighters go way of tailfins
• Heavenly trying to snuff out smoking in chairlifts, lift lines
• Sheraton Hotels & Resorts going smokeless
• New Fort Worth apartments will be smoke-free.
• Condominium owners tell smokers: Take it outside
• Judge says second-hand smoke led to cancer
• Heart attacks decreased after public smoking ban in Italy

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Youth Prevention

• Global Youth Tobacco Surveillance, 2000-2007
• In adolescents, addiction to tobacco comes easy
• Duke study links teens' tobacco use to trauma
• Coalition of faith groups urges states to fund programs to protect kids from tobacco
• Some campuses decide tobacco company money is 'tainted'
• Tee shirts as TV screens
• Crunch take a stand and say "No Thanks, Big Tobacco"
• State Health Commissioner urges film executives to eliminate smoking in youth-rated movies
• Bollywood stars told to put their cigarettes out

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Disparities

• Ohio health department to study tobacco habits of gay teens
• Tobacco use among individuals with schizophrenia: What role has the tobacco industry played?
• Crossing borders: The impact of the California Tobacco Control Program on both sides of the US-Mexico border
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Cessation

• Elderly smokers more likely to deny smoking when asked
• Sad smokers less likely to quit after heart attack
• FDA issues Public Health Advisory on Chantix
• Marine Corps wages campaign against tobacco use
• State Medicaid Coverage for Tobacco-Dependence Treatments
• Smokers kicking habit after ban

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Legislative Watch

• Bars, restaurants begin new smoke-free era
• Big Tobacco targets smoking ban, tax
• Bills to ban public smoking defeated
• Smoking ban seen as likely to pass
• State lawmaker questions tobacco promotion effort
• Heineman signs smoking ban
• China aims for national chain of anti-smoking clinics
• EU to spend some tobacco aid on health campaigns
• Smoke alarm from Afghanistan to Morocco
• EU panel says oral tobacco is addictive, hazardous
• Milder 'warning' pics on cigarette packs?
  
• Mexico to ban smoking in eateries, public spaces

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Legal

• Legal Update - January/February 2008
• Technical Assistance Legal Center (TALC)
• Court rubs out Maine law regulating Internet tobacco sales

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Excise Taxes

• Cigarette tax fight not totally snuffed
• Supporters, opponents debate Kansas cigarette tax increase Health
• £10 government permit plan to deter smokers
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Tobacco Industry News

• RJR Tobacco cuts off free cigarettes
• Philip Morris readies aggressive global push
• WHO takes aim at tobacco smuggling with new pact
• Government plans to halve tobacco cultivation in 10 years
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smoking found to disrupt sleep
• Smoking can double risk of colorectal polyps
• New study concludes that smoking increases breast cancer risk based on genes
• Cigarette smoking linked heart attacks in early 50's for people with common gene variant
• India caught in catastrophic smoking epidemic: 1 million tobacco deaths predicted a year during the 2010s
• Cigarettes leave deadly path by purging protective genes
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Data/Reports

• New study shows tobacco control programs cut adult smoking rates
• Key state-specific tobacco related data & rankings
• Special report: Big tobacco's guinea pigs
• Tobacco control in transition: Public support and governmental disarray in Arizona 1997-2007
• American Cancer Society Statistics for 2008
• Drinking declines and smoking reaches all time low in Great Britain
• New report on global tobacco control efforts
• World leaders in smoking
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Other Resources

• World Cancer Campaign 2008-2009
• Announcing Smoke-free policies: Establishing a smoke-free..
• Bringing Everyone Along
• New Generation of Tobacco Products Threatens Efforts to Reduce Tobacco Use
• Oklahoma launches its first statewide media campaign "Tobacco Stops with Me"
  
• Partnership for Prevention®
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Save the Date

• Save the Date for the 8th Annual CDC/AEA Summer Evaluation Institute
• 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
• The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids 12th annual Youth Advocates of the Year Gala [read more]

Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements/Awards

Proposals:

• Ohio LGBT Tobacco RFP
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Jobs:

• STEPP Director of Secondhand Smoke Initiatives
• Sr. Program Associate Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
• Tobacco Control Researcher
• Short Term Vacancy Notice for the position of P2, Technical Officer
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Awards:

• Judy Wilkenfeld Award for International Tobacco Control Excellence
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