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Tobacco Free Press - Table of Contents
September 2009

Multiple factors impact adolescent smoking risk
Community youth program curbs risky behaviors
What works to prevent adolescent smoking? A systematic review of the National Cancer Institute's Research-Tested Intervention Programs
Tobacco industry lifestyle magazines targeted to young adults
Many college athletes reject cigarettes but smoke hookah, Pitt study finds
Smoking rate decreases among Montana youth (MT)
Young smokers choosing contraband cigarettes (Canada)
Shops 'flout cigarette sales law' (UK)
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A comparison of abstinence outcomes among gay/bisexual and heterosexual male smokers in an intensive, non-tailored smoking cessation study
Intention to quit smoking among lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender smokers
Smoking cessation during substance abuse treatment: Is it mission possible?
Stress, W.Va. culture big factors in high rate of pregnant smokers (WV)
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Nicotine creates stronger memories, cues to drug use
Individual, social-normative, and policy predictors of smoking cessation: A multilevel longitudinal analysis.
Oklahoma smokers willing to try to quit, diet concurrently (OK)
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Tobacco prevention programs to be cut (CO)
Anti-smoking proposal could push D.C. smokers into the streets (DC)
Group: Smoking in Kansas casinos an ADA problem (KS)
New law bans smoking in outdoor dining areas (ME)
There's change in the air as smoking ban nears (MT)
DOH approves warning signs for tobacco sellers (NY)
New York eyes ‘no smoking’ outdoors (NY)
State may stub out anti-smoking funds (OH)
F.D.A. bans sale of flavored cigarettes; New information on flavored tobacco from FDA
American Legacy Foundation calls on Food and Drug Administration to ban all tobacco product flavorings – including menthol
Amazon.com dropping e-cigarette sales: Action follows notice of potential legal liability
Smoking bans bring a drop in heart attacks
Cigarette zones go up in smoke
IARC report: Evaluating the effectiveness of smoke-free policies
Overview: The National Preventative Health Strategy (Australia)
In Canada, cigarettes have gone into hiding (Canada)
Sweden wants EU to lift 'snus' tobacco ban (European Union)
Mexico City smoke-free case study launched (Mexico)
Anti-smoking law helps waiters to quit smoking (Spain)
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S.F. ban on tobacco in drugstores survives (CA)
State brief defends smoking ban (IA)
Much at stake in roll-your-own suit: N.H. contends tobacco shop threatens flow of $50m a year (NH)
Court: Smoking ban constitutional, minus criminal sanctions (NV)
Judge bars NY from imposing fee increases on tobacco sellers (NY)
Bar files new lawsuit against state's smoking ban (OH)
Lawsuit challenges tobacco advertising rules
Tobacco Control Legal Consortium - Legal Update, Summer 2009
Kretek sues FDA to stop possible flavored-cigar ban
Chantix lawsuit blames drug for 2007 death of Dallas musician
The bloom is off the rose for tobacco claims
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Life expectancy in relation to cardiovascular risk factors: 38 year follow-up of 19,000 men in the Whitehall study
Second breast cancer: Three lifestyle risks
Nearly any lifetime smoking ups breast cancer risk
Cigarettes boost MS risk, but not through nicotine
E-cigarettes presentation: “Are e-cigarettes a bridge product to smoking or abstinence? Or both?”
Tobacco use worsens malnutrition in developing countries
Smoking threatens Africa with cancer epidemic (Africa)
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Utah smokers at a record low: 9.1% (UT)
New NCI Tobacco Control Monograph - Phenotypes and endophenotypes: Foundations for genetic studies of nicotine use and dependence
CDC releases SMART Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey data
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Funding Opportunity Announcement: American Recovery Reinvestment Act of 2009 – Communities Putting Prevention to Work
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