Secondhand Smoke

• Effects of environmental tobacco smoke on perinatal outcomes: A retrospective cohort study
• Moderate levels of secondhand smoke deliver nicotine to the brain
• Secondhand smoke and periodontal disease: Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study
• A second reporter matters: Agreement between parents' and children's reports of smoking bans in families
• Tobacco use by male prisoners under an indoor smoking ban
• Secondhand smoke (SHS) exposures: Workplace exposures, related perceptions of SHS risk, and reactions to smoking in catering workers in smoking and nonsmoking premises (China)
• Impact of smoke-free legislation on children's exposure to secondhand smoke: Cotinine data from the Health Survey for England (England)
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Policy

• New policy guides available from Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
• Multi-state accord would reduce tobacco sales to minors
• California wants to stop gambling, drinking, and smoking with food stamps (CA)
• Calif. bill lets landlords ban smoking in units (CA)
• Bill bans smoking in cars with kids (Guam)
• Iowa House rejects adding casinos to smoking ban (IA)
• Ind. tobacco control agency becomes health department commission (IN)
• State Senate committee agrees to ban smoking in bars (LA)
• North Carolina health fund faces the ax (NC)
• Bill would snuff out Nevada's smoking ban in bars (NV)
• House votes to place restrictions on hookah bars (OR)
• Tennessee House Agricultural Committee bans e-cigarette sales to minors (TN)
• State Senate approves exceptions to smoking ban (WA)
• Knock Tobacco out of the Park campaign update
• Navajo president's smoking ban not enforceable
• Argentina bans electronic cigarettes (Argentina)
• China's new indoor smoking ban takes effect (China)
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Excise Taxes

• Tax hikes on the way for Connecticut residents (CT)
• La. cigarette tax hike deferred, but renewal OK'd (LA)
• LePage would veto cigarette tax hike (ME)
• RI lawmakers consider lowering cigarette tax (RI)
• A handshake deal on taxes, budget and jobs bills (VT)
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Youth Prevention

• Physician advice may improve teen smoking behavior
• Prevalence and correlates of waterpipe tobacco smoking by college students in North Carolina (NC)
• Parental smoking, exposure to secondhand smoke at home, and smoking initiation among young children (China)
• Tax rise sees smoking rates among Hong Kong students fall by half (China)
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations

• New special journal issue underscores need to increase access and exposure to tobacco interventions among minorities and low socioeconomic groups
• Positive media campaigns help minorities put down cigarettes
• African Americans more active users of smoking quitlines
• Rates and reasons: Disparities in low intentions to use a state smoking cessation quitline
• Barring intervention? Lesbian and gay bars as an underutilized venue for tobacco interventions
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Cessation

• Some social smokers find it difficult to quit
• Genetic variation impacts brain opioid receptors in smokers
• Risk perception and motivation to quit smoking: A partial test of the Health Action Process Approach
• Early anti-smoking drug start seems better: Study
• Quit attempts and quit rates among menthol and nonmenthol smokers in the United States
• The combined effect of behavioral intention and exposure to a smoke-free air law on taking measures to quit smoking
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Legal

• Judge refuses to certify class in Marlboro medical-monitoring suit (CA)
• California Supreme Court addresses legal deadlines for tobacco lawsuits (CA)
• Engle progeny case updates (FL)
• Jury sides with Big Tobacco over Missouri hospitals (MO)
• Philip Morris wins defense verdict in NY smoker suit (NY)
• Indians win delay in collection of cigarette tax (NY)
• Cigarette vending machine ban to go ahead in Scotland as tobacco industry loses legal challenge (Scotland)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Philip Morris CEO: Smoking "not that hard" to quit
• Reynolds launches campaign to push smokeless product
• Cigarettes returning to NASCAR
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Nicotine and cocaine leave similar mark on brain after first contact
• Cigarette, cigar and pipe smoking, passive smoke exposure, and risk of pancreatic cancer: a population-based study in the San Francisco Bay Area
• Smokers have slimmer odds of surviving colon cancer
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Data/Reports

• New MMWR for World No Tobacco Day: Cigarette package health warnings and interest in quitting smoking - 14 countries, 2008-2010
• Fewer smoke in wake of ban (MI)
• Differences in smokers and nonsmokers' assessments of an educational campaign about tobacco use (MO)
• Intervention to promote smoke-free policies among multiunit housing operators (NY)
• Ten great public health achievements - United States, 2001-2010
• Modeling the future effects of a menthol ban on smoking prevalence and smoking-attributable deaths in the United States
• Graphic-enhanced information improves perceived risks of cigar smoking
• The prevalence of waterpipe tobacco smoking among the general and specific populations: A systematic review
• WHO warns of enormous burden of chronic disease
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Save the Date

• World No Tobacco Day
• Webinar: Updates on Smoking and Schizophrenia
• Webinar: Engaging Employers in Tobacco Control: A Warner Series Lecture
• Public Health Advocates Stakeholder Discussion Series Session
• Conference and Webcast: The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act: Regulatory Science and the Tobacco Industry
• Summer Webinar Series – Addressing Tobacco Use in Correctional Facilities
• 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

• Tobacco Related Disease Research Program (TRDRP) Coordinator
• Program Coordinator
• Public Interest Attorney - Tobacco Control
• Research Scientist II (Epidemiology/Biostatistics)
• Research Scientist I (Epidemiology/Biostatistics)
• Health Program Specialist I
• CPPW Tobacco Control Permitting and Enforcement Coordinator
• Development Director
• Program Associate
• Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer/Tobacco Epidemiology
• Research Intern, International Advocacy Resource Center
• Project Manager
• Social Media Marketing Coordinator
• Policy Coordinator / Senior Outreach Specialist
• 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

• AAP Richmond Center's 2011 Visiting Lectureship Call for Applications
• $100 million in Affordable Care Act grants to help create healthier U.S. communities
• Action Planning for Sustained Local Tobacco Prevention and Control Efforts Grant Program
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Other Announcements

General:

• Register for TTAC's Logic Model Essentials and Fundamentals of Evaluation web-based courses
• New SOPHE site on tobacco control and prevention
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FDA Announcements:

• FDA takes action against illegal marketing of tobacco products
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