Secondhand Smoke

• Assessing compliance with smoke-free laws: A "how-to" guide for conducting compliance studies
• ANRF's updated smoke-free lists and maps now online
• Majority of Americans support public smoking bans
• Smoking bans: Where to light up (or not) on cruise ships
• Legislature again flicks away smoking ban (TX)
• HHS adopts tobacco-free facilities policy, protecting employees and setting example for government
• Navajo casinos exempt under smoking ban approved by Tribal Council (Navajo Nation)
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Tobacco Pricing

• New consortium resources
• Newly updated Tobacco Pricing Policies Toolkit available from TTAC
• Kentuckians buy 120M fewer packs of cigarettes in-state since tax increase (KY)
• Senator wants to slash cigarette tax 50 percent (MI)
• NY begins tax collections on Indian cigarettes (NY)
• Lawmaker: Special interests snuffed out cigarette tax (WV)
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Other Policy

• New tobacco prevention policy tool from American Academy of Pediatrics
• American Lung Association releases 2010 edition of State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI) report
• Updated state tobacco control resource pages
• North Carolina legislature eliminates state health and wellness trust fund (NC)
• Sale of hookahs, shisha and other smoking paraphernalia to minors prohibited (NY)
• Ore. House passes disputed hookah lounge bill (OR)
• Australia launches world-first plain cigarette pack laws (Australia)
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Youth Prevention

• New report finds adolescent substance use at epidemic levels
• Smoking in top-grossing movies – United States, 2010
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations

• American Indians hit hardest by tobacco costs (CA)
• New topic area on Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights website
• New report from Legacy on tobacco use and mental illness
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Cessation

• FDA cigarette study casts doubt on whether new warning labels would help smokers quit
• Study finds text messages help smokers quit
• Pediatric surgery and parental smoking behavior
• Promoting a web-based smoking cessation intervention: Implications for practice
• New labels spur smokers to call quit lines
• New cessation training available for cardiology professionals
• Quitplan website revamped with new features to help Minnesotans quit smoking (MN)
• Free Washington tobacco quitline service cancelled (WA)
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Legal

• Settlement: Smoker awarded $1.07M in lawsuit against RJ Reynolds (FL)
• Cigarette makers rejected by top court on $270 million award (LA)
• Roll-your-own cigarette machines illegally avoid taxes (NH)
• Roll-your-own machines draw legal attention (WV)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Eco-friendly cigarette ads make tobacco foes fume
• Tobacco money report shows tobacco interests spent nearly $100 million in the last decade to influence California elections and legislative policy (CA)
• Kentucky-based tobacco company suing Washington over drug law (DC)
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smoking and visual impairment among older adults with age-related eye disease
• Lifestyle affects sudden cardiac death risks
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Data/Reports

• Adult smoking rates reach new low (CA)
• More Utah grocers snuff out tobacco products (UT)
• WHO report on the global tobacco epidemic, 2011: Warning about the dangers of tobacco
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Save the Date

• Summer Webinar Series – Addressing Tobacco Use in Correctional Facilities
• Public workshop: Scientific Evaluation of Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) Applications
• NALBOH 2011 Annual Conference
• Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, VII
• World Conference on Tobacco or Health
• Promising Practices to Eliminate Tobacco-Related Disparities: The Power of Communities
• 2012 National Conference on Tobacco or Health
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Job Announcements

• Vice President, Government Affairs
• Tobacco Control Media and Communications Coordinator
• Tobacco Prevention Educator
• Scientific Writer/Editor (Chronic Disease Prevention)
• Program Officer, International Resource Center
• Associate, International Communications
• Director of Programs
• Health Communications Coordinator
• Research Assistant
• Scientific Writer - Consultant Opportunity
• Program Coordinator
• Research Scientist II (Epidemiology/Biostatistics)
• Research Scientist I (Epidemiology/Biostatistics)
• Health Program Specialist I
• Project Manager
• Social Media Marketing Coordinator
• Director, Africa
• Advocacy Director, Head of Russia/Ukraine Programs
• Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various
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Requests for Proposals

• Comprehensive workplace health programs to address physical activity, nutrition, and tobacco use in the employee population
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Awards

• Call for nominations: Community Activist Award
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Other Announcements

General:

• Register for TTAC's Fundamentals of Evaluation web-based course
• Call for Papers: Journal of Environmental and Public Health Special Issue on Tobacco Consumption Patterns
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FDA Announcements:

• FDA to independently review menthol cigarettes
• FDA issues final rule on substantial equivalence requirements
• States awarded FDA tobacco retail inspection contracts
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