Secondhand Smoke

• Assessment of exposure to secondhand smoke at outdoor bars and family restaurants in Athens, Georgia, using salivary cotinine
• Secondhand smoke worst for toddlers, obese kids
• Exposure to secondhand smoke increases risk for Type 2 diabetes
• Smoke-free apartments in FL, NY, and PA
• New research shows more than 4 in 10 smokers still smoke around kids (Australia)
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Youth Prevention

• Relationships of adolescents' perceptions of parental and peer behaviors with cigarette and alcohol use in different neighborhood contexts
• Genes may explain why churchgoers are teetotalers
• Increasing youths' exposure to a tobacco prevention media campaign in rural and low-population-density communities
• ACHA Guidelines: Position statement on tobacco on college and university campuses
• The BACCHUS Network announces new Tobacco-Free Campus Policy Certification
• Taxpayer subsidies for U.S. films with tobacco imagery
• WI sees decrease in tobacco sales (WI)
• Cigarette packaging influences teens to buy and try (Australia)
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Disparities

• Effects of different types of antismoking ads on reducing disparities in smoking cessation among socioeconomic subgroups
• Immigrants likelier to support smoking bans
• University promotes healthy lifestyles: All Nations Breath of Life supports smoking cessation and traditional tobacco usage (KS)
• State’s smoking rate still high: Kentucky women smokers at 34.7 percent, experts say (KY)
• Reliability of self reported smoking status by pregnant women for estimating smoking prevalence: a retrospective, cross sectional study (UK)
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Cessation

• Federal stimulus grant supports crucial study of anti-nicotine vaccine
• Motivation to quit smoking among parents of urban children with asthma
• A randomized placebo-controlled clinical trial of 5 smoking cessation pharmacotherapies
• Switching to “lighter” cigarettes and quitting smoking
• Consumer electronics can help improve patient health
• Interventions for preventing weight gain after smoking cessation
• Helping smokers quit: State cessation coverage
• Nearly half of U.S. residents want e-cigarettes available as a smoking cessation device; 28% undecided
• Survey finds many smokers make last minute plans to quit
• Predictors of smoking relapse by duration of abstinence: Findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey
• Crushing virtual cigarettes reduces tobacco addiction and treatment discontinuation (Canada)
• The effects of acute exercise on attentional bias towards smoking-related stimuli during temporarily abstinence from smoking (UK)
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Policy

• New from TALC: Restricting free tobacco samples
• S.F. moves to curtail tobacco outlets (CA)
• Ban coming on tobacco products at state prisons (GA)
• State bans smoking in mental hospitals (GA)
• Bill to extend smoking ban (Guam)
• With aid, Mass. poor cut smoking: State coverage for cessation programs hailed (MA)
• St. Louis County voters OK smoking ban (MO)
• Website explains new NC smoking law (NC)
• Health officials to seek smoking ban in Oklahoma (OK)
• State AG cracks down on illegal cigarette sales (TN)
• Legislator wants to ban nicotine candy (UT)
• After the FDA tobacco control law: Which policies are legal to pursue?
• Small business assistance from FDA for tobacco regulation implementation
• FDA says companies violating flavored cigarette ban
• Tobacco cessation coverage and prevention funding in House and Senate health reform bills
• State Medicaid coverage for tobacco-dependence treatments --- United States, 2007
• Insurance discounts for healthy habits spur debate in Washington
• Firestorm over smokeless cigarette
• New NALBOH position statement on sustaining funding for tobacco control
• Smokers worldwide support workplace smoking bans, study finds
• Tobacco groups ask Obama to challenge Canadian ban (Canada)
• Closing the tobacco loopholes (European Union)
• Indonesia seeks to clear the air over U.S. kretek ban (Indonesia)
• Smoking ban 'did not lead to rise in home exposure' (UK)
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Legal

• Federal judge rejects tobacco companies’ effort to block key provisions of new tobacco regulation law (KY)
• Wynn Resorts accused of not protecting employees (NV)
• Court bans mom from smoking near child (OH)
• State high court ponders award in cigarette lawsuit (OR)
• Public to vote on South Dakota's smoking ban law (SD)
• Health groups applaud passage of bill to sue tobacco companies (Canada)
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Excise Taxes

• Cigarette sales plunge since Florida's tax increase (FL)
• As taxes rose, cigar makers supersized their stogies
• Tobacco execs quickly find tax loophole
• PACT Act passed by Senate committee
• Japan considers higher tobacco taxes (Japan)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Two cigarette makers boosting pack prices
• Cigarette makers: Burning hot or up in smoke?
• Will cigarette maker Reynolds try kicking the habit?
• Philip Morris in negotiations with original e-cigarette company
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Lung myeloid dendritic cells coordinately induce TH1 and TH17 responses in human emphysema
• Cigarette smoking and cutaneous damage in systemic lupus erythematosus
• Smoking tied to suicide risk in bipolar disorder
• Smoking may now be considered an established risk factor for Lou Gehrig's disease
• Current cigarette smokers at increased risk of seizures
• Bladder cancer risks increase over time for smokers
• Smoking while pregnant linked to behavioral problems in children
• Cigarettes harbor many pathogenic bacteria
• Cancer Institute studies smokeless tobacco
• Nonsmokers top smokers in well-being across all incomes
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Data/Reports

• State-specific secondhand smoke exposure and current cigarette smoking among adults --- United States, 2008
• Cigarette smoking among adults and trends in smoking cessation --- United States, 2008
• The content of cigarette counter-advertising: Are perceived functions of smoking addressed?
• The global tobacco economy: A snapshot of the economies of multinational tobacco companies and of international tobacco control efforts in 2008
• Tomorrow’s regular customers? Stamping out tobacco use in the Middle East and Africa
• Experts fear Africa "pandemic" from rise in smoking
• Men's smoking rate in Japan at record-low 36.8% (Japan)
• First release of Global Adult Tobacco Survey results (Thailand)
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Save the Date

• Webinar: Building Staff Buy-In for Tobacco-Free Policies
• Webinar: Putting the Tobacco Industry’s Words to Work for You
• It’s About a Billion Lives: Advances in Tobacco Control – Celebrating Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
• NACDD Chronic Disease Academy
• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 16th Annual Meeting
• Kick Butts Day 2010
• Tribal Institute on Commercial Tobacco: Integrating Chronic Disease Interventions
• Promising Practices: Achieving Health and Social Equity in Tobacco Control
• 18th Annual NALBOH Conference
• APACT 2010 Conference: Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health
• Seventh World Conference on Nonsmokers’ Rights
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Job Announcements

• Instructional Content Developer
• Assistant Director
• Tobacco Assessment Specialist
• Program Manager - Louisiana
• Program Manager - New York
• Project Coordinator
• Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) - Various
• Director, State Communications
• Director
• Grants Administrator
• Director of Sales and Distribution
• Managing Director
• Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research
• Director of Advocacy
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Requests for Proposals/Other Announcements

Proposals:

• Request for Applications: State and Community Tobacco Control Policy and Media Research
• Request for Applications: Effectiveness Research on Smoking Cessation in Hospitalized Patients Research Coordinating Unit (U01)
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Awards:

• 2010 Youth Advocates of the Year Awards
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Other Announcements:

• Register now for TTAC’s Web-based courses
• Your media campaign on the cover of Tobacco Control?
• Johns Hopkins: Scholarship available for Certificate in Global Tobacco Control
• Solicitation for written comments on the development of Healthy People 2020
• Last chance to submit comments to the FDA on tobacco regulation
• Presentations available online from the 5th National Summit on Smokeless and Spit Tobacco
• Legacy unveils new name and logo, reflecting national interest in preventive care
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