Secondhand Smoke

• Caregivers often expose asthmatic kids to smoke
• Smoking bans reduce heart attack admissions
• Fewer nonsmokers breathe cigarette fumes, CDC says
• Smoke-free policies effective, says International Agency for Research on Cancer
• Navajo tribe bans tobacco use in public spaces
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Youth Prevention

• Study finds manipulation of menthol levels
• Access is key to kids' decision to smoke
• Teen smokers struggle to kick the habit; most want to quit and can't
• Oklahoma State University goes tobacco-free (OK)
• University of Arkansas to go tobacco-free (AR)
• Last of N.C. schools adopt no tobacco policies (NC)
• A new spin on songs of truth®
• DVDs to include ads on danger of smoking
• Forever cool:  The influence of smoking imagery on young people (UK)
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Disparities

• Smokers light up after pain
• Low-income households opt for cigarettes over food
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Cessation

• Competitions and incentives for smoking cessation
• Smoking-cessation aids beat cold turkey
• More smokers seek help with quitting since latest cigarette tax took effect (NY)
• Smoking moms-to-be strive to go from pregnant pause to permanently smoke-free (OK)
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Legislative Watch

• Black lawmakers seek restrictions on menthol cigarettes
• FTC acts to prevent tobacco industry deception about tar, nicotine levels; Congress should go further by giving FDA authority over tobacco products
• Action to ban smoking fizzles (MI)
• Cigarettes in state to be 'fire safe' (PA)
• Vote expected on FDA legislation
• Factbox:  Smoking bans around the world
• Smokefree England, one year on (UK)
• Public smoking becomes illegal throughout Germany (Germany)
• Kenyan smoking ban due to take effect: official (Kenya)
• Smoking ban gains momentum (China)
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Legal

• Tobacco Assistance Legal Center new and updated fact sheets
• Revised model ordinance for tobacco retail licensing
• Smoking ban faces legal test (IA)
• Supreme Court cases could shield drug, tobacco companies from product liability lawsuits
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Excise Taxes

• Updated tobacco tax factsheets
• Vt., N.H. cigarette taxes headed up (VT, NH)
• Mass. cigarette tax jumps $1 per pack (MA)
• Brussels proposes EU tax hike on cigarettes
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Tobacco Industry News

• Big tobacco’s ‘other’ products catch fire
• Tobacco giants' cash incentives under fire (Australia)
• Waking a sleeping giant: The tobacco industry’s response to the polonium-210 issue
• Tobacco giant 'breaks youth code' (Africa)
• Project Cerberus: Tobacco industry strategy to create an alternative to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smokeless tobacco ups oral cancer risk 80 percent: WHO
• Monitoring of biological markers of passive smoking key to establishing level of cancer risk
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Data/Reports

• American Legacy Foundation(R) announces lecture series on tobacco policy and enforcement in honor of Vermont Attorney General William H. Sorrell
• Billionaires back antismoking effort
• Disease prevention called a better bet
• CDC campaign hopes to make USA healthier nation
• US smoking rate still coming down
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Save the Date

• TTAC Fundamentals of Evaluation Web-based Course – Open Registration
• 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
• The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
• 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
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Requests for Proposals/Awards

• Call for Abstracts:  6th Annual LGBTQ Tobacco Summit:  Be A Movement, Not A Market
• Call for Nominations: Legacy’s Community Activist Award
• Call for Nominations:  The Luther L. Terry Awards for Exemplary Leadership in Tobacco Control
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Job Announcements

• Research Associate, Industry Monitoring
• Health Policy Educator
• Tobacco Cessation Director
• Training and Outreach Specialist
• Program Manager
• Research analyst/Postdoctoral fellow
• Medical Officer
• Head of Indonesia Programs
• Manager
• Director, Grants Management/Sponsored Projects
• Research Scientist 5 (Epidemiology)
• Epidemiologist
• Research Scientist
• Associate Director of Research
• Project Coordinator
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