Secondhand Smoke

• Indoor air laws up adoption of smoke-free home policy
• A systematic examination of smoke-free policies in multiunit dwellings in Virginia as reported by property managers: Implications for prevention (VA)
• Arkansas protects even more kids from secondhand smoke (AR)
• Nearly one million California children still at risk of secondhand smoke exposure (CA)
• The health and economic benefits of making California smoke-free (CA)
• Fact sheet: Becoming a policy wonk on nonsmoking housing units ordinances
• Smoke-free multi-unit housing fact sheet from CDC State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System
• Florida prison smoking amended to exclude employees (FL)
• NC heart attack rates down since smoke-free law (NC)
• Smoke-free federal buildings bill closes smoking loophole
• MLB to limit tobacco use; MLB and players' union take historic first steps to get tobacco out of the ballgame
• Russia may ban hookah smoking in public (Russia)
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Tobacco Pricing

• Cancer Society seeks to put tobacco tax increase on ballot (MO)
• New Hampshire cigarette tax cut failing to boost sales (NH)
• South Dakota's revenue from tobacco tax down 9 percent (SD)
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Other Policy

• The economic impact of state cigarette taxes and smoke-free air policies on convenience stores
• Policy brief: Return on investments in public health
• Content-neutral advertising laws: Tips and tools available
• Fact sheet: Is it legal to ban tobacco sales in pharmacies?
• The smokers' surcharge: Penalizing employees vs. rewarding good habits
• Board that oversees tobacco fund certifies additional $17.3 million in earnings to fight tobacco use (OK)
• Tobacco plain packaging delayed in Parliament (Australia)
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Youth Prevention

• Smoking behavior of U.S. youths: A comparison between child welfare systems and community populations
• Solving the puzzle: A guide to pediatric tobacco control
• 4th Annual Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids' National PSA Contest: Kicking Butts on Film (...and Radio!)
• Arkansas Tobacco Prevention and Cessation launches prevention media campaign (AR)
• Cigar use among Maryland youth threatens gains in tobacco control; officials take action to protect youth from growing threat of flavored cigars (MD)
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations

• Tobacco intervention practices of primary care physicians treating lower socioeconomic status patients
• Which literacy skills are associated with smoking?
• Interest in participating in smoking cessation treatment among Latino primary care patients
• Smoke alarm: No noticeable decrease in smoking in American Indian smoking (NM)
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Cessation

• Cigarettes are enlisted to test ways of quitting
• New report from CDC: Quitting smoking among adults–United States, 2001-2010
• Study links Chantix to suicide risk, but FDA disagrees
• Arkansas launches Systems Training and Outreach Program (STOP) to involve healthcare providers in smoking cessation (AR)
• North Dakota Quitline calls double over past 2 years (ND)
• New guide for hospitals to implement the Joint Commission tobacco measures
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Legal

• Tobacco companies win lawsuit in Miami (FL)
• Fort Myers jury favors Big Tobacco in smoking case (FL)
• Mistrial declared in $700 million tobacco case in St. Louis (MS)
• Massive West Virginia tobacco trial ends suddenly (WV)
• U.S. judge blocks graphic cigarette warnings
• Philip Morris challenges Australia on plain pack (Australia)
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Tobacco Industry News

• Why California retailers stop selling tobacco products, and what their customers and employees think about it when they do: Case studies
• Social media news: The QR Code for quick response to big tobacco fact sheet
• New Camel snus ads urge smokers to seek alternatives
• Dissolvable tobacco products appealing to women
• Imperial Tobacco earnings gain on prices, emerging markets
• Liggett hikes 'deep-discount' cigarette prices
• Philip Morris closes plant in Uruguay amid lawsuit (Uruguay)
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Electronic cigarettes deliver as much nicotine as tobacco cigarettes
• NIH study examines nicotine as a gateway drug
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Data/Reports

• Five years later: A look at tobacco control in Florida (FL)
• Electronic nicotine delivery systems: Adult use and awareness of the 'e-cigarette' in the USA
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Save the Date

• Webinar: Educating, advocating, lobbying: What's the difference and what role can health department staff play?
• Save the Date: It's About a Billion Lives: Celebrating Tobacco Research and Education at UCSF
• World Conference on Tobacco or Health
• 2012 National Health Promotion Summit
• Promising Practices to Eliminate Tobacco-Related Disparities: The Power of Communities
• National Association of Local Boards of Health Conference: Celebrating Achievements, Shaping the Future
• NAQC Conference 2012: Quitline Innovation and Sustainability: Exploring Strategies and Seizing Opportunities in Challenging Times
• 2012 National Conference on Tobacco or Health
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Job Announcements

• Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Tobacco and Health Policy & Advocacy Intern – 2012 Spring Semester
• Manager, Public Health Communications
• Advocacy Manager
• Campaign Director
• Communications Specialist
• Deputy Director - NYC Coalition for a Smoke Free City
• Director of Programs
• Viet Nam Policy Consultant
• Evaluator--Tobacco Prevention and Control
• Tobacco Policy and Control Data Analyst
• Program Associate, Constituency Relations and Advocacy
• Postdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research
• Cross Cultural Technical Assistance and Training Program Coordinator
• Program Officer, International Resource Center
• Research Scientist II (Epidemiology/Biostatistics)
• Research Scientist I (Epidemiology/Biostatistics)
• Health Program Specialist I
• 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

• Health Care Innovation Challenge
• New tobacco control funding opportunities through the AAP Richmond Center
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Awards

• Nominations for the 2012 Youth Advocate of the Year Awards are now open
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Other Announcements

General:

• AAP Tobacco Consortium now seeking new member nominations
• Health Promotion Practice journal supplement: Training and technical assistance: Lessons learned to sustain social norm changes in tobacco control
• Preventing Chronic Disease Student Research Paper Contest
• National release of the Healthy People 2020 Leading Health Indicators
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FDA Announcements:

• FDA issues guidance for small businesses regarding compliance with required warnings for cigarette packages and advertisements
• Opportunity for comment: Proposed restrictions on the sale and distribution of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco to protect children and adolescents
• FDA stings retailers for selling tobacco to minors
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