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Webinar: Electronic cigarettes: Marketing and potential public health impact
October 4, 2011
The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center is pleased to announce its next free webinar, which will be on October 4, 2011, at 1 pm Eastern Time (90 minutes). The presenters will include Rachel Grana, PhD, MPH, Postdoctoral Scholar, and Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco. As a result of participating in this webinar, attendees will understand the basics about electronic cigarettes; be able to describe the current marketing of electronic cigarettes; and understand the public health issues posed by electronic cigarettes. Click here to register.

American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition
October 29-November 2, 2011
Washington, DC
The American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting & Exposition is the oldest and largest gathering of public health professionals in the world. The theme of the 2011 Annual Meeting is, “Healthy Communities Promote Healthy Minds and Bodies.” Click here to read more about the APHA Annual Meeting.

World Conference on Tobacco or Health
March 20-24, 2012
Singapore
Registration is open for the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health, being held in Singapore in 2012. The conference will provide opportunities for participants to build global tobacco control capacity by sharing best practices, experiences, knowledge, research, and the latest trends; celebrating successes; renewing their commitment to fight the global tobacco epidemic; and networking for future collaborations. Click here to learn more about the conference.

Promising Practices to Eliminate Tobacco-Related Disparities: The Power of Communities
April 17-18, 2012
New Orleans, Louisiana
The next Health Education Council and Break Free Alliance (BFA) national tobacco control conference will take place April 17-18, 2012 in New Orleans. This will be BFA's third national tobacco control conference that focuses its efforts on reducing the burden of tobacco use in low socioeconomic status and ethnic/minority populations. Click here to visit the conference website for more information. Registration will open on November 8, 2011.

2012 National Conference on Tobacco or Health
August 15-17, 2012
Kansas City, MO
The conference website for the next National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) is now available. The conference organizers are seeking volunteers for peer-review of abstracts; volunteers may sign up on conference website in the “Abstract” section. The NCTOH call for abstracts will open later in the fall. Click here to view the conference website, or click here to sign up to receive conference updates by email.

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