Secondhand Smoke

• Forty years of secondhand smoke research: the gap between discovery and delivery
• Childhood smoke exposure could initiate atherosclerosis early on in life
• Study: MT Clean Air Act expansion to bars won’t hurt business (MT)
• How children are affected when parents smoke at home (NY)
• 7 cities join in to kick killer butt (China)
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Youth Prevention

• Simpsons in smoking scandal
• Smoking-cessation research highlights importance of keeping teens from smoking
• How adolescents experience smoking cessation
• Enforcement of underage sales laws as a predictor of daily smoking among adolescents – a national study
• As movies portray fewer smokers, fewer teens light up
• Video: Truth® asks: ‘Do you have what it takes?’
• Factsheets for a smoke-free Father’s Day
• Which movie studios will cause the most youth to start smoking this summer? (CA)
• 136 stores cited in tobacco sales sting (HI)
• WHO calls for enforceable policies to restrict smoking in movies
• Government is urged to protect children from cigarettes (Indonesia)
• 1 in 3 Filipino teens smoke – WHO study (Philippines)
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Disparities

• People with intellectual or developmental disabilities particularly vulnerable to effects of tobacco use and dependence
• Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention Project (NPTPP) newsletter
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Cessation

• Nicotine gum before quitting smoking not helpful
• Can tobacco industry research help ‘social’ smokers quit?
• Tobacco talk: Helping veterans kick the habit (MA)
• Smoking reported down 26% among people with Mass. subsidized health insurance program (MA)
• State launching new anti-smoking campaign (MO)
• Humana to new hires: Quit smoking (OH)
• PA Department of Health launches Spanish-language smoking cessation resource web site (PA)
• UA researchers look to stem the growth of tobacco use worldwide (India & Indonesia)
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Policy

• Improving health care systems to reduce tobacco use: Lessons learned from states
• Smoking ban snuffed out in committee (LA)
• Michigan House OKs smoking ban (MI)
• Bills would force insurers to cover quit-smoking drugs (RI)
• Smoking-ban foes play game of delay (SD)
• Cigarette ban being implemented in Va. state prisons (VA)
• President Obama signs tobacco legislation
• U.S. tobacco bill puts focus on menthol cigarettes
• Tobacco regulation is expected to face a free-speech challenge
• WHO urges pictures to show tobacco ills
• Tobacco warning labels: Evidence and recommendations from the ITC Project
• Anti-tobacco bill tests trade ties (Canada)
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Legal

• Florida smoker’s widow awarded $30 million (FL)
• Court nixes Ho-Chunk’s bid for cigarette tax refund (WI)
• Using tobacco retailer licensing to provide penalties for violation of state drug paraphernalia laws
• Baltimore federal jury rejects Star's patent infringement claims against R.J. Reynolds
• ‘Pegger takes on big tobacco (Canada)
• Tobacco group launches lawsuit (Canada)
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Excise Taxes

• California democrats seek budget that raises tobacco, oil taxes (CA)
• House defeats cigarette tax increase (LA)
• Oregon legislature passes smokeless tobacco product tax increase (OR)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Study finds that tobacco companies changed design of cigarettes without alerting smokers
• Open source marketing: Camel cigarette brand marketing in the "Web 2.0" world
• Altria introduces ‘richer, bolder’ Marlboro menthol cigarette
• Tobacco bill could snuff out RJR's smokeless strategy
• NPR: Tobacco's last gasp?
• E-cigarette controversy arises amidst new legislation on regulating tobacco industry
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Investigation finds that cigarette smoking does not affect everyone in same way
• Smokers can’t blow off stress
• Healthy lifestyles on decline in the U.S.
• Alcohol, cigarettes and diabetes up colorectal cancer risk
• Nicotine induces prediabetes, likely contributes to high prevalence of heart disease in smokers
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Data/Reports

• Cancer statistics, 2009
• Cigarette smoking prevalence and policies in 50 states: An era of change
• Trends in smoking before, during, and after pregnancy —Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), United States, 31 sites, 2000–2005
• Report: Smoking declines as alcohol, drug use hold steady
• Experts: Big Tobacco dead by 2047, possibly sooner
• The role of the media in promoting and reducing tobacco use
• Smoking kills - but few aware (China)
• WHO: 600 million cigarettes sold in Fiji annually (Fiji)
• Monstrous (UK)
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Save the Date

• Webinar: Sabemos - a Hispanic/Latino Smoke Free Outreach Initiative
• TCLN Conference Call Series: Medicaid Partnership Project Case Studies
• NACCHO Annual 2009 Conference
• Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy
• 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
• Second Menthol Conference
• Break Free Alliance 2010 National Conference
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Job Announcements

• Chronic Disease Program Manager
• Tobacco Prevention and Control Program Evaluation Specialist
• Program Consultant
• Director of Tobacco Control
• Tobacco Control Researcher
• Associate Director
• Director of Advocacy - International Programs
• Program Coordinator, Youth Initiatives
• Regional Coordinator (Region II)
• Administration Manager
• Policy Director
• Communications Director
• Director of Research
• Director of Research Programs
• Head, Tobacco Control Programs
• Vice President of International Programs
• Associate Director of Advocacy
• Global Tobacco Control Faculty Position
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Requests for Proposals/Other Announcements

Proposals:

• Call For Proposals: NACDD 2010 Chronic Disease Academy
• Funding Opportunity Announcement: Testing Tobacco Products Promoted to Reduce Harm
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Other Announcements:

• Health research agencies form global alliance to curb humanity's most fatal diseases
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