Secondhand Smoke

• Parental warning: second-hand smoke may trigger nicotine dependence symptoms in kids
• Household smoking and childhood asthma in the United States: a state-level analysis
• Secondhand smoke linked to peripheral artery disease in women
• Gene variations, secondhand smoke linked to early asthma
• Virginia ad campaign: No matter the time of day, lung cancer shouldn't be on the menu (VA)
• Developing Smokefree Implementation Regulations Website
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Youth Prevention

• Adolescent smoking trajectories: results from a population-based cohort study
• Comparing the effects of entertainment media and tobacco marketing on youth smoking
• Tobacco firms target teenage girls with 'super slim' products (UK)
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Disparities

• Designing a tobacco counter-marketing campaign for African American youth
• Lung cancer incidence among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States, 1999-2004
• Longitudinal rates of smoking in a schizophrenia sample
• Announcing: The National Latino Tobacco Control Network
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Cessation

• Media campaigns to promote smoking cessation among socioeconomically disadvantaged populations: what do we know, what do we need to learn, and what should we do now?
• Helping hospitalized smokers to stay smoke-free by employing intensive support programs
• Can cash for clinics snuff out smoking?
• Critical genetic link found between human taste differences and nicotine dependence
• American Cancer Society marks 33rd Great American Smokeout
• FDA may revise warning for antismoking drug
• Webcast alert: World Medical Association Tobacco Cessation Symposium
• Voucher plan for pregnant smokers (UK)
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Legislative Watch

• AC extends smoking ban to 12 days (NJ)
• Boston smoking crackdown ignites debate (MA)
• Technical Assistance Legal Consortium (TALC): Comparing Laws to Regulate Tobacco Retailers
• India bans smoking in public, tobacco firms fume (India)
• Reps pass bill banning smoking in public places (Nigeria)
• Rotting teeth photos added to cigarette packs (UK)
• A call to combat tobacco smuggling (UK)
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Legal

• Suit on tobacco ads sparks feisty debate
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library adds over 14,000 Tobacco Industry documents
• San Francisco says smoking ads are not free speech (CA)
• Bloomberg targets smoke shops on Poospatuck reservation (NY)
• U.S. court has no jurisdiction in fight with Canadian cigarette makers
• Washington State requires advance notice on cigarette sampling events (WV)
  
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Excise Taxes

• How to make state cigar tax rates fair and effective
• NH cig tax rises to $1.33 (NH)
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Tobacco Industry News

• R.J. Reynolds' new smokeless products will appeal to children and show need for FDA regulation of tobacco products
• Philip Morris Int'l completes Rothmans buyout
• Altria says lenders want UST deal pushed into 2009
• Cheaper cigarettes target consumers on budget (UK)
• Tobacco underground: The booming global trade in smuggled cigarettes
• Legacy Tobacco Documents Library adds over 14,000 Tobacco Industry documents
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Study: Even occasional smoking can impair arteries
• Women require less tobacco exposure than men to increase colon cancer risk
• Men who never smoke live longer, better lives than heavy smokers
• Study links nicotine with breast cancer growth and spread
• Smoking boosts risk of aortic aneurysm event in postmenopausal women
• ADHD drugs cut risk of drug abuse, smoking: study
• Smoking and solid-fuel-burning in homes in China projected to cause millions of deaths (China)
• One-third of world smokers are Chinese men: Just 1 part of China's chronic disease battle (China)
• Tobacco: £2.7 billion UK health cost (UK)
• 5% of hospital admissions among adults aged 35 and over are due to smoking, new figures reveal (UK)
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Data/Reports

• Blueprint for a healthier America
• Hollywood 'paid fortune to smoke' (CA)
• Frosted doors hiding cigarettes from view (NY)
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health marketing: eHealth data briefs
• Updated Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids fact sheets
• Smoking-attributable mortality, morbidity and economic costs (SAMMEC)
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Save the Date

• The Praxis Project Learning Circle Series 2009: Communicating to Advance Racial Justice
• Second Annual Symposium on Tobacco Control
• The 14th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
• 2009 NACDD Chronic Disease Academy
• The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' 13th Annual Youth Advocates of the Year Awards Gala
• Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy
• 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
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Requests for Proposals / Awards / Other Announcements

• Call for Applications: California Tobacco Control Program Educational Materials Development
• Call for Nominations: 2008 International Tobacco Industry Document Research and Advocacy Award
• Call for Abstracts: 2009 National Conference on Tobacco or Health Call
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Job Announcements

• Health Scientist, Epidemiology Branch of Office of Smoking and Health
• Program Consultant, Project Officer – China Grants Program
• Associate Director, Programs (Evaluator)
• Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research for 2009
• Associate Director, Training and Technical Assistance
• Technical Assistance and Training, Senior Manager
• Senior Director, Development
• Communications Associate
• Senior Trainer, Tobacco Control Training Project
• Managing Senior Fellow
• Postdoctoral Fellowship
• Associate Director for Media Advocacy
• Manager, Collaboration and Outreach-National Partners
• Head of Indonesia Programs
• Epidemiologist
• Research Scientist
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