Other Announcements

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Call for Papers: Training and Technical Assistance Lessons Learned to Sustain Social Norm Changes in Tobacco Control
The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) is pleased to announce the Call for Papers to a special theme issue of Health Promotion Practice: Training and Technical Assistance Lessons Learned to Sustain Social Norm Changes in Tobacco Control. We strongly encourage all interested authors to review the suggested topics and submit papers for peer-review. The creation of this theme issue is the result of a collaboration between Legacy, TTAC and the Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE). Click here for further information, or contact Madeleine Solomon at msolom3@emory.edu.

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FDA Announcements

FDA announces Break the Chain of Tobacco Addiction: A campaign to raise awareness about tobacco product regulations
FDA has launched a new campaign to educate retailers and raise awareness about new tobacco regulations that are going into effect this year. A new podcast and public service announcement (PSA) are now available. Retailers can sign up for updates from FDA via email, Twitter, or RSS feed. Visit www.fda.gov/BreakTheChain for the latest educational tools and information on FDA tobacco regulations. As part of the Break the Chain campaign, FDA has launched a six-month text messaging campaign pilot to educate and raise awareness about federal tobacco product regulations. The text messaging campaign includes informational text messages and a contest in which the winners will have the opportunity to be featured on the FDA and CDC’s biweekly podcast series. Read more here.

Compliance and enforcement contract awards
To date, the FDA has awarded eight states with contracts that will allow them to assist the FDA with enforcing and implementing the regulation of the Tobacco Control Act in terms of limiting the availability of tobacco to young people. Alabama, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Tennessee were selected following a request for proposals in March, and will be contacted by the FDA in the near future to begin activities such as commissioning state officials and starting training programs. Additional contracts will be awarded throughout the year, with another solicitation for proposals expected in fiscal year 2011, with the long-term goal of establishing contracts with each U.S. state and territory that demonstrates an ability to assist the FDA with enforcement capabilities. Click here to read more.

Web-based public meeting on issued related to development of enforcement plan
The FDA Center for Tobacco Products (CTP) has uploaded materials from a June 30, 2010 web-based meeting in which issues were discussed regarding the development of an action plan to enforce restrictions on promotion and marketing of menthol and other cigarettes to youth. The meeting’s goals were to get data, information, and opinions from interested parties and stakeholders, such as public health organizations, minority community leaders, youth-oriented groups, and industry. Click here to access the meeting materials, including the agenda, presentations, transcript, and video archive.

FDA Tobacco Retailer Compliance Training sessions
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Tobacco Products has announced the dates, times, and locations for the remaining four of five live training sessions on federal tobacco regulations. The sessions will all take place in September 2010 and are designed to provide retailers nationwide with information about how to comply with the new regulations and give them an opportunity to ask questions about them. Locations for the remaining sessions include: Atlanta, GA; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; and Los Angeles, CA. Retailers are encouraged to attend in person or via phone or webcast. There is no charge to attend the sessions. Click here for more information about the training sessions and how to attend. Click here to access the webcast and materials from the training session held in Boston on July 19th.

FDA issues long list of harmful tobacco components
The FDA’s Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee met on August 30, 2010 to receive and discuss a report from the Tobacco Product Constituents Subcommittee regarding a proposed list of harmful or potentially harmful components found in tobacco products and tobacco smoke. The committee discussed the proposed list, the rationale behind including each constituent in the product, and methods and standards for regulation of the constituents. Click here to read more about the FDA’s development of a list of harmful tobacco components. Click here to access the FDA’s draft list of harmful or potentially harmful constituents of tobacco products, or click here to access other meeting materials from the August 30th FDA meeting.

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