Secondhand Smoke

• No Smoking lights axed for No Phone lights
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Youth Prevention

• Study reveals impact of advertisements on tobacco addicts
• Smoking 'disrupts concentration of teenagers'
• Smoking in movies linked to kids lighting up
• UF research snuffs out notion that smokeless tobacco is lesser of two evils
• New York City Sets Standard for the Nation in Reducing High School Smoking
• Houston Artist Creates Anti-Smoking Coloring Book for Children
• The Sunny Side of truth
• National non-smoking REWARDS program announced for Canadian youth
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Disparities

• Gender differences in smoking and cessation behaviors among young adults after implementation of local comprehensive tobacco control
• Firm doling out free cigarettes reprimanded
• No-Smoking Ban Kicks In
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Cessation

• Smokers' brain centers activate during nicotine cravings
• Smoking cessation rates in the United States: A comparison of young adult and older smokers
• Electronic cigarette to be tested on smokers in trial
• Smokers quit where smoking is not accepted
• HealthCentral.com's new stop smoking site provides expert advice, supportive community to help smokers quit
• 'Vlogs' designed to help smokers kick habit
• Tobacco stops with me
• Helping employees:  Wegmans to stop selling cigarettes
• Pfizer anti-smoking drug behavior warning pushed up
• NIH grant to fund UA anti-tobacco programs in India, Indonesia
• Call to give smokers choice of smoke-free tobacco
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Legislative Watch

• Where there’s smoke, there’s research
• Tobacco licensing fee declared success in bid to curtail sales to minors
• Legislation and regulation:  Reduced cigarette ignition propensity
• Kaine to try again to pass smoking ban
• Accounting sought on tobacco money
• D.C. yet to issue fines for smoking
• Calabasas gives final okay to apartment smoking ban
• Working men's clubs hit by smoking ban  
• Tokyo taxi passengers breathe freely as smoking ban goes into effect
• Turkish parliament passes smoking ban bill
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Legal

• Bands sue Rolling Stone, R.J. Reynolds over cigarette ads
• Philip Morris USA files lawsuits to stop importation of counterfeit cigarettes
• Fewer suits by tobacco deadline
• Top court will hear case on cigarette ads
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Excise Taxes

• Web cigarette sales burn hole in high state taxes
• Campaign set to raise cigarette tax
• S.C. considering cigarette tax hike, smoking bans
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Tobacco Industry News

• Lighting up the powerful global smoking lobby
• Philip Morris' Indian subsidiary violates Tobacco Control Act
• Fuisz announces formation of Fuisz Tobacco; Company to commercialize film-based smokeless tobacco products
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smoke and mirrors
• Hookah smoking as tough on lungs as cigarettes
• Smokeless tobacco:  Harm reduction debatable
• Cigarette Smoke Could Reduce Immune Response To Pathogens
• Smoking Linked to Domestic Violence
• Smoking related to long-term risk and progression of age-related eye disease
• Healthy living 'can add 14 years' 
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Data/Reports

• American Lung Association state of tobacco control:  2007
• New report estimates 12 million cancer cases worldwide
• Smoking ban research questioned  
• Evaluating the scientific evidence for potential reduced-risk tobacco products
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Other Resources

• Video from Medialink and the Society of Interventional Radiology: Smoking causes pain - another reason to quit
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Save the Date

• 7th National Symposium on Young Adults 
• Save the Date for the 8th Annual CDC/AEA Summer Evaluation Institute 
• 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
• The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids 12th annual Youth Advocates of the Year Gala
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Requests for Proposals/Job Announcements/Awards

Proposals:

• ClearWay Minnesota is requesting Letters of Interest from qualified vendors interested in submitting the full Request for Qualifications (RFQ)
• Creating a Tobacco-Free Generation Leadership Award.
• Youth Activism Council Seeks Applicants.
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Jobs:

• The Human Services Program Coordinator - Senior (#332180)  
• Evaluation Manager (Research Analyst 4) 
  The Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education Program 
  
• Organizational Development Director
  
• The Georgia Public Interest Research Group
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Awards:

• Judy Wilkenfeld Award for International Tobacco Control Excellence
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