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Tobacco Free Press - Table of Contents
August 2010

Prenatal smoke tied to poorer asthma-drug response
How secondhand cigarette smoke changes your genes
'Thirdhand smoke' especially harmful for asthma sufferers
Ohio poll: Rethink smoking ban (OH)
Prenatal smoking exposure and the risk of psychiatric morbidity into young adulthood (Finland)
Can secondhand smoke hurt kids' grades? (Hong Kong)
A qualitative case study of policy maker views about the protection of children from smoking in cars (New Zealand)
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Smoking motives in movies are important for understanding adolescent smoking: A preliminary investigation
Defining "smoker": College student attitudes and related smoking characteristics
Tobacco use among middle and high school students - United States, 2000-2009
Summertime treats from the truth® youth smoking prevention campaign
truth® continues its 11th annual tour this fall
Florida students develop tobacco cessation, prevention PSAs (FL)
Survey: Youth smoking rates drop (WI)
Adolescents' perceptions of tobacco control measures in the United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
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Cigarette smoking and advice to quit in a national sample of homeless adults
Tobacco use prevalence and factors associated with tobacco use in new U.S. Army personnel
Coming out about smoking: Tobacco use in the LGBTQ young adult community
New resources on tobacco and low SES populations (WA)
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Efficacy of motivational interviewing for smoking cessation: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Change your thinking to kick that cigarette habit
podcast: Quitting for baby's sake
Helping Arkansas quit tobacco (AR)
Quitting tobacco: Michigan offers free nicotine replacement products (MI)
Vermont smokers play end game (VT)
Group takes on tobacco at rodeo (WY)
More smokers using NHS help (England)
Ministry of Health to launch nationwide anti-smoking campaign during Ramadan (Saudi Arabia)
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Americans want smoking off the menu at restaurants
TFK fact sheet update – Point-of-purchase or retailer-based marketing of tobacco products
NAQC Policy Playbook – New updates now available
Arkansas Clean Air on Campus Act goes into effect (AR)
New law protecting youth from tobacco products takes effect today (MN)
Medicare expands coverage of tobacco cessation counseling
25 of the 50 states now have at least one public housing authority with a smoke-free policy
Hunter seeks loophole to let troops get smokes
Canadians, Americans, Britons oppose making smoking illegal
No smoking in public soon (Barbados)
Finland bans tobacco display in Europe's toughest tobacco control law (Finland)
Poll: Majority of New Zealanders back tobacco sales ban (New Zealand)
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Brown announces electronic cigarette maker's agreement to stop deceptive marketing and sales to minors (CA)
Jury orders to tobacco giants to pay $270,000 in punitive damages to widow of smoker (FL)
Senecas want exemption from NY cigarette tax (NY)
Twenty-five national public health groups show support for New York City's fight to preserve its point-of-sale graphic signage requirement (NY)
Judge: Smoking ban does not violate constitution (NC)
Attorney General squashes electronic cigarettes in Oregon (OR)
Mailing ban on cigarettes is upheld by judge
Summer 2010 issue of Legal Update available
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"A delicate diplomatic situation": Tobacco industry efforts to gain control of the Framingham Study
Tobacco firm's web impact probed
Consider your source: Legacy's counter-view to the messages on menthol from the tobacco industry
Lorillard to launch non-menthol Newport cig
Star Scientific says lozenge may help with tobacco craving
Tobacco companies settle bribery charges
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Smoking may worsen outcome of pregnancy complication
Electronic cigarettes require more suction than conventional brands
Adverse effects of smoking on patients with ocular inflammation
Tobacco smoking as a risk factor for depression: A 26-year population-based follow-up study
Smoking, nipple piercing are risk factors for developing breast abscesses, study finds
Effects of waterpipe tobacco smoking on lung function: A systematic review and meta-analysis.
Risk of incident cardiovascular disease among users of smokeless tobacco in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study
Lifestyle factors linked to teens' headaches
Smoking increases asthma attacks in pregnancy
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Cigarette sales, smokers decline (CA)
Washington's adult smoking rate now third lowest in the nation (WA)
Any tobacco use in 13 states - Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System, 2008
Smoking in popular motion pictures – United States, 1991-2009
New data available from the State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
NALBOH's Public Health Snapshots by State
Tobacco smoking in seven Latin American cities: the CARMELA study
Smoking in China 'as serious as SARS': WHO (China)
Survey: Japan's smoking population drops to record low (Japan)
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Webinar: Practical Clinical Strategies for Delivering Evidence-based Tobacco Dependence Interventions
FDA Stakeholder Discussion for State and Local Tobacco Control Officials
National Health Education Week
APHA Annual Meeting & Exposition
Great American Smokeout
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) 17th Annual Meeting
Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, VII
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Request for Applications: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act) State Supplemental Funding for Healthy Communities, Tobacco Prevention and Control, Diabetes Prevention and Control, and Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
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General:

Call for Papers: Training and Technical Assistance Lessons Learned to Sustain Social Norm Changes in Tobacco Control
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FDA Announcements:

FDA announces Break the Chain of Tobacco Addiction: A campaign to raise awareness about tobacco product regulations
Compliance and enforcement contract awards
Web-based public meeting on issued related to development of enforcement plan
FDA Tobacco Retailer Compliance Training sessions
FDA issues long list of harmful tobacco components
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