Secondhand Smoke

• Tobacco smoke exposure before, during and after pregnancy and risk of overweight at age 6
• Smoking and passive smoking in cervical cancer risk: Pooled analysis of couples from the IARC multi-centric case control studies
• Prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure and development of insulin resistance in 10 year old children
• Medicaid expenditures for children living with smokers
• Exempting casinos from the Smoke-free Illinois Act will not bring patrons back: They never left (IL)
• Banning smoking in New Jersey casinos - a content analysis of the debate in print media (NJ)
• Clean indoor air regulation and incidence of hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome in Kanawha County, West Virginia (WV)
• Fighting for air: Secondhand smoke in casinos
• Smoke levels in casinos unhealthy, group says (MO)
• Data: No negative impact by Clean Indoor Air Act (NV)
• DC council considers cigar loophole in smoke-free law (DC)
• Smoke-free workplace legislation approved by California Senate (CA)
• Senate rejects smoking ban for Louisiana bars (LA)
• New legislation to be introduced to amend Smoke-Free Air Law (MI)
• Bill to allow smoking in bars that serve food signed (NV)
• New York City outdoor smoking ban begins (NY)
• Weprin bill aims to keep kids smoke-free in cars (NY)
• Senate passes Fuschillo bill to protect railroad passengers from second-hand smoke (NY)
• Budget cut may yield weakened smoke ban (OH)
• Statewide smoking ban is revived in special session (TX)
• Argentina bans smoking in public places (Argentina)
• Chilean gov't presents reform bill to modify tobacco law (Chile)
• Smoking to be banned at all schools in Beijing (China)
• Israel moves toward smoking bans in public venues (Israel)
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Tobacco Pricing

• La Legislature OKs 4-cent cigarette tax renewal (LA)
• Deal for $10.3B N.H. budget includes cigarette tax cut (NH)
• Walker vetoes tobacco tax break (WI)
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Other Policy

• New reports: Strong state tobacco control policies could save hundreds of thousands of lives and billions of dollars in health care costs
• Number of adult smokers in state creep upward (WA)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announces expanded quitline coverage
• House appropriations amendment would weaken FDA's authority over tobacco, unleash big tobacco on America's kids
• U.S. House rejects Rep Stearns' amendment to give $392 million gift to big tobacco
• Impact of the removal of misleading terms on cigarette pack on smokers' beliefs about Light/Mild cigarettes: Cross-country comparisons
• Conflict of interest and FCTC implementation in China (China)
• Tobacco industry attempts to influence and use the German government to undermine the WHO framework convention on tobacco control (Germany)
• Tobacco companies using 'misleading' data to distort impact of health regulations (U.K.)
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Youth Prevention

• U.S. gay teens more likely to smoke, drink – study
• 'Predatory' cigarette marketing to U.S. black youth: Study
• Social environmental and individual factors associated with smoking among a panel of adolescent girls
• Obese girls more than twice as likely to be addicted to smoking
• New national report shows that state/federal partnership has reduced illegal tobacco sales to minors to an all-time low
• truth® youth smoking prevention campaign kicks off annual summer tour
• Anti-smoking policies for adults also reduce kids' smoking (Australia)
• Prescribing of nicotine replacement therapy to adolescents in England (England)
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations

• Community-level determinants of tobacco use disparities in lesbian, gay, and bisexual youth
• Epidemiology of cigarette and smokeless tobacco use among South Asian Immigrants in the Northeastern United States
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Cessation

• Effects of 24 hours of tobacco withdrawal and subsequent tobacco smoking among low and high sensation seekers
• Effect of stress and bupropion on craving, withdrawal symptoms, and mood in smokers
• Potential new target for smoking cessation without weight gain
• The timing of smoking onset, prolonged abstinence, and relapse in men: A prospective study from ages 18 to 32 years
• The dynamics of the urge-to-smoke following smoking cessation via pharmacotherapy
• Free tools from Legacy to promote smoking cessation
• New case studies from Partnership for Prevention on increasing access to tobacco cessation coverage
• N.J. to help smokers kick habit with free nicotine replacement treatments (NJ)
• Prospective predictors of quitting behaviors among adult smokers in six cities in China: Finding from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) China Survey (China)
• Rise in quit attempts faded after U.K. smoking ban (England)
• Cost effectiveness of interventions to reduce relapse to smoking following smoking cessation (England)
• An exploration of general practice factors predicting recruitment to a UK wide primary care smoking cessation study (the ESCAPE trial) (England)
• Smoking cessation improves mortality in Japanese men: The Hisayama study (Japan)
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Legal

• Suit challenges break for cigarette makers in appeals (FL)
• $5M verdict in Soffer tobacco trial for Avera and Smith (FL)
• U.S. Supreme Court says tobacco companies must pay into Louisiana stop-smoking program (LA)
• Family loses tobacco lawsuit (MA)
• Setback spurs Senecas to top N.Y. appeal (NY)
• New resources from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
• U.S. judge declines to shut tobacco racketeering case
• Tobacco giant Philip Morris suing Uruguay over ban (Uruguay)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Philip Morris International buys nicotine aerosol technology
• States close to deal with big tobacco companies
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Smoking and prostate cancer survival and recurrence
• Government says formaldehyde is a cancer-causer and a second industrial chemical, styrene, may be
• Smokers show higher risk of leg artery disease
• Special edition of the Journal of Oncology: Cigarette Smoke and Cancer
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Data/Reports

• Trends in smokeless tobacco use in the US workforce: 1987-2005
• Does ADHD predict substance-use disorders? A 10-year follow-up study of young adults with ADHD
• Fight against tobacco: European Commission launches a pan-European campaign (European Union)
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Save the Date

• Summer Webinar Series – Addressing Tobacco Use in Correctional Facilities
• Webinar: Best Practices in Adolescent Smoking
• Deep South Tobacco Prevention and Control Policy Institute
• 2011 National Conference on Health Communication, Marketing, and Media
• Public workshop: Scientific Evaluation of Modified Risk Tobacco Product (MRTP) Applications
• NALBOH 2011 Annual Conference
• Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, VII
• Promising Practices National Tobacco Control Conference
• National Conference on Tobacco or Health
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Job Announcements

• Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network (RITCN) Campaign & Legislative Coordinator
• Program Officer, International Resource Center
• Lead Health Scientist
• Program Officer, International Grants
• 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
• CPPW Tobacco Control Permitting and Enforcement Coordinator
• Development Director
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer/Tobacco Epidemiology
• Project Manager
• Social Media Marketing Coordinator
• Director, Africa
• Program Coordinator I-CIB Tobacco
• Director, Policy Research and Analysis
• Project Director/Management
• Advocacy Director, Head of Russia/Ukraine Programs
• Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various
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Requests for Proposals

• Action Planning for Sustained Local Tobacco Prevention and Control Efforts Grant Program
• Leadership Advocacy Training: Application Deadline Extended!
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Awards

• Call for Nominations: Community Activist Award
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Other Announcements

General:

• Register now for TTAC's Fundamentals of Evaluation web-based course
• Obama Administration releases National Prevention Strategy
• Smokefree.gov presents - The Healthy Monday Challenge
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FDA Announcements:

• FDA unveils final cigarette warning labels; New labels will help prevent children from smoking and help adults quit
• Get free materials from FDA Center for Tobacco Products Clearinghouse
• Updates to retailer section of CTP website
• Menthol update: 90 day update on FDA's review of all the available science
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