Mayo Clinic: Tobacco Dependence Treatment Webcasts
September 2009 – March 2010
These webcasts present a learning opportunity for Tobacco Treatment Specialists and other healthcare practitioners who are interested in educational sessions via webcasts. Topics for upcoming lectures include: Implementing a Nurse–led Protocol for Treating Tobacco Dependence in the Hospital; Treating Tobacco Dependence in Hospitalized Patients – Financial Sustainability; Treating Tobacco Dependence in Hospitalized Patients – Overview of a Day; Tobacco Use & Cessation: Issues Specific to Women; and Issues in Providing Tobacco Dependence Treatment to Parents of Pediatric Patients. Click here for more information or to register.

Great American Smokeout
November 19, 2009
The American Cancer Society has scheduled the 34th annual Great American Smokeout (GASO) for November 19, 2009. This event is held each year on the third Thursday in November to encourage smokers to quit for a day in the hope they may quit for good. Click here to read a sample press release that can be used to promote the event. Click here to access the American Cancer Society’s website for smoking cessation resources and materials to help publicize the Great American Smokeout.

Kick Butts Day 2010
March 24, 2010
Last spring, teachers, youth leaders, and advocates helped youth stand out, speak up, and seize control against Big Tobacco with fun, educational activities and events on Kick Butts Day. Mark your calendars for Kick Butts Day 2010, and start planning to make a difference at your own KBD event. Click here to learn more about Kick Butts day, and to get tools and ideas from the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids for organizing a KBD event.

Break Free Alliance 2010 National Conference
April 27-28, 2010
New Orleans, LA
Save the date for the Break Free Alliance’s 2010 National Conference, Promising Practices: Achieving Health and Social Equity in Tobacco Control. This Conference is presented by the Health Education Council’s Break Free Alliance and National African American Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN). Don’t miss this important conference, offering the latest information and promising practices to meeting the needs of low socioeconomic status (SES) communities. The goal of the Break Free Alliance is to engage key organizations serving low SES populations in tobacco control efforts and to assist them with resource development and assessments, technical assistance, capacity building, and evaluation to prevent and reduce tobacco use in low-income communities. Registration for this conference will open in November. Click here for additional information.

APACT 2010 conference: Asia Pacific Conference on Tobacco or Health
October 6 – 9, 2010
Sydney, Australia
The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) is pleased to partner with the Asia Pacific Association for the Control of Tobacco (APACT) to bring evidence-based solutions to the tobacco control issues faced by healthcare providers, advocates and others in the Asia/Pacific region. The APACT conference is the premier tobacco control conference for the Asia Pacific, with the 2010 conference focusing on Change, challenge and progress: FCTC in the Asia Pacific. APACT 2010 aims to encourage tobacco control and public health advocates, researchers, practitioners, policy makers, and especially youth leaders, to share experiences and discuss strategies for implementation of the FCTC. We look forward to welcoming you to Sydney for what promises to be a memorable event in tobacco control. Abstract submissions for the conference will be accepted starting in October 2009. Registration will open in February 2010. Click here to visit the conference website.

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