Secondhand Smoke

• Kids take in more tobacco smoke in apartments than in houses
• Secondhand smoke increases risk of invasive meningococcal disease in children
• Moms' smoking in pregnancy tied to girls' puberty
• Smoking bans may benefit kids with asthma
• Teens in smoking homes may get more ear infections
• Secondhand smoke kills 600,000 a year: WHO study
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Youth Prevention

• Leniency on R-rated movies linked to kids' smoking
• Evidence for truth®: The young adult response to a youth-focused antismoking media campaign
• truth® is designated as an effective intervention program
• Smoking stops declining and shows signs of increasing among younger teens
• Philadelphia cracks down on tobacco sales to youth (PA)
• Adolescent smoking: Effect of school and community characteristics (Canada)
• Children's loss of autonomy over smoking: The global youth tobacco survey (Cyprus & Greece)
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations

• Smoking widespread among youth with diabetes, raising heart disease risk
• A new way to talk about the social determinants of health
• Racial disparities in smoking-attributable mortality and years of potential life lost - Missouri, 2003-2007 (MO)
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Cessation

• Integrating tobacco cessation into mental health care for posttraumatic stress disorder
• Smoking restrictions in bars and bartender smoking in the U.S., 1992–2007
• Time-varying smoking abstinence predicts lower depressive symptoms following smoking cessation treatment
• Motivational interviewing for smoking cessation: A meta-analytic review
• ActionToQuit launches podcast series
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Policy

• When the state paid, people stopped smoking: Study
• Illinois casino smoking: Compromise bill would allow separate rooms (IL)
• Okla. cities, towns want tougher tobacco options (OK)
• Study shows dramatic air quality improvement because of smoke-free law (WI)
• Health agencies urge MLB tobacco ban
• Cigarettes soon to go under the counter in Turkey (Turkey)
• Plans to stop youngsters from smoking could see cigarettes sold in plain packaging (UK)
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Legal

• Appeals court upholds judgment against R.J. Reynolds (FL)
• Mass. jury rules against Lorillard, awards $71M to dead smoker's family (MA)
• Judge denies class action in cigarette lawsuits (ME)
• Chewing tobacco to pay $5M in mouth cancer case (NC)
• Lawsuit may set a record (NH)
• NJ casino secondhand smoke suit settled for $4.5M (NJ)
• Court: FDA can regulate e-cigs as tobacco products
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Excise Taxes

• Addressing Tobacco Pricing Policies: A Toolkit for Tobacco Control Program Managers
• Effectiveness of tax and price policies in tobacco control
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Tobacco Industry News

• State AGs ask R.J. Reynolds to stop cigarette promo
• Philip Morris USA, Reynolds raise cigarette prices
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Associations of cigarette smoking with rheumatoid arthritis in African Americans
• Association between smoking and chronic kidney disease: A case control study
• Reduced thickness of medial orbitofrontal cortex in smokers
• Global surveillance of oral tobacco products: Total nicotine, unionized nicotine and tobacco-specific N-nitrosamines
• e-Cigarettes warning: Safety evaluation urgently needed, researchers say
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Data/Reports

• Exposure to tobacco smoke causes immediate damage, says new Surgeon General's report
• HHS launches Healthy People 2020
• Surveillance summaries: Surveillance for certain health behaviors among states and selected local areas - United States, 2008
• American Journal of Preventive Medicine Supplement - ClearWay Minnesota: Advancing tobacco control through applied research
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Save the Date

• FDA Stakeholder Meeting: Minority Populations
• The National African American Tobacco Prevention Network announces its 2010-2011 Webinar Series
• Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) 17th Annual Meeting
• Kick Butts Day 2011
• Reducing Tobacco Use 2011 Conference
• Tobacco Research Intensive Lecture Series
• National Summit on Smokeless & Spit Tobacco
• NALBOH 2011 Annual Conference
• Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, VII
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Job Announcements

• Senior Program Associate
• Associate Director of International Communications
• Regulatory Analyst
• AZ State Government Relations Director
• President/CEO
• Community Health Associate
• Assistant/Associate Professor – Research
• Senior Program Coordinator (Cancer Control Policy Initiatives)
• Advocacy Director, Head of Russia/Ukraine Programs
• Research Analyst
• Community Mobilization Specialist
• Assistant to Associate Professor, Tenure-Track
• Program Specialist
• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Advocacy Coordinator — China
• Communications Specialist
• Program Manager/Trainer - Tobacco Control Training Center
• Program Assistant
• Director, Health Systems Development Division
• Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various
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Awards

• Julius B. Richmond AAP/FAMRI Visiting Lectureships Program
• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids 2011 Youth Advocate of the Year Awards
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Other Announcements

General:

• Registration is open for TTAC's Web-based courses
• ASTHO position statement on tobacco prevention and control
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FDA Announcements:

• FDA publishes results of experimental study of graphic cigarette labels
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