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Tobacco Free Press - Table of Contents
August 2012

Does e-cigarette consumption cause passive vaping?
U.S. health policy related to hookah tobacco smoking
New smoke-free housing toolkits available for owners/management agents and residents of federally assisted public and multi-family housing
Smoke-free air video series
Smoke-free North Dakota campaign: Smoking ban on the ballot (ND)
Tobacco ban sought on all public campuses by Ohio Board of Regents (OH)
Governor Kitzhaber signs Executive Order for tobacco-free state properties (OR)
As smoking ban marks second year, restaurant business is up (WI)
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Impact of cigarette minimum price laws on the retail price of cigarettes in the USA
Study: Tax hike would cut smoking, raise revenue (GA)
New fact sheet: The problem with roll-your-own (RYO) and other smoking tobacco
Cigarette seizures quadrupled over two years (MD)
Cigarette maker helps fund anti-tax effort (MO)
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Tobacco Retailer Licensing Day of Action turn-key kit
Report shows majority of states not measuring up on laws and policies to fight cancer
"Staying Well – Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund"
2012 Save Lives and Money: Help People on Medicaid Quit Tobacco
Law restricting internet tobacco sales goes into effect (AZ)
Flavored tobacco wraps outlawed in Illinois (IL)
Electronic Health Records and Meaningful Use: An opportunity to make tobacco cessation treatment a standard practice
Tobacco display ban comes into force (New Zealand)
U.S. free market group tries to halt sales of cigarettes in plain packets in UK (United Kingdom)
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Risk factors for adolescent smoking: Parental smoking and the mediating role of nicotine dependence
Awareness, perceptions and use of snus among young adults from the upper Midwest region of the U.S.A.
Brains of teens who smoke cigarettes reveal early signs of addiction
Smoker identity and smoking escalation among adolescents
Predictors of initiation of hookah tobacco smoking: A one-year prospective study of first-year college women
Current Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students—United States, 2011
Youth Activism in Tobacco Control: A Toolkit for Action
Smoking, drinking and drug use among young people in England in 2011 (England)
Plain packaging of cigarettes encourages young smokers to heed health warnings (United Kingdom)
The effect of cigarette branding and plain packaging on female youth in the United Kingdom (United Kingdom)
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Who is most susceptible to movie smoking effects? Exploring the impacts of race and socioeconomic status
The last drag: An evaluation of an LGBT-specific smoking intervention
Tribal tobacco policy toolkits
New publications by the National Native Network
Lung Association releases tobacco use in rural communities report
MPOWERED: Best and Promising Practices for LGBT Tobacco Prevention and Control
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Interventions for tobacco cessation in the dental setting
Weight gain in smokers after quitting cigarettes: meta-analysis
Doctors discussing smoking cessation less
The need for tobacco cessation in a free clinic population
Preventing smoking relapse via web-based computer-tailored feedback: A randomized controlled trial
Seniors with serious illness find smoking, drinking tough habits to break
CDC says graphic anti-smoking ads work, more on way
ActionToQuit addition to website
Tobacco cessation programs save money and lives
Multi-State Collaborative: Two recent publications advancing health systems work
Recorded webinar for Continuing Medical Education (CME) credit: 'Three Steps to Smoke-free Families: Clinical Systems Change and Policy Prescriptions'
State resumes its tobacco quitline (WA)
CAMH launches website to help pregnant women quit smoking (Canada)
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Tobacco groups sue to block new state cigarette taxes (IL)
Federal ruling against cigarette warning labels a defeat for public health
Federal appeals court rejects tobacco industry effort to escape corrective actions for violating racketeering laws
New issue of Legal Update newsletter
Australia's highest court upholds landmark law requiring plain cigarette packaging (Australia)
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ALEC seeks lower taxes for smokeless tobacco products marketed to teens, 'tweens
RJR set to take Camel Snus Mint nationwide
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Solving the mystery of how cigarette smoking weakens bones
Ex-smokers have higher risks for bowel diseases
Smoking sharply increases risk of certain cancers of the immune system and bone marrow
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Report: More cancer, smoking upstate (NY)
CDC report: Cigarette smokers switch to cigars and pipes to save money
Flavored Cigar Smoking Among U.S. Adults: Findings from the 2009–2010 National Adult Tobacco Survey
Progress toward a healthier nation
Largest-ever tobacco study finds 'urgent need' for policy change
About 1,260 hospital admissions a day due to smoking, new figures show (United Kingdom)
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Enhancing Strategies to Promote Individual Change in Primary Healthcare Settings
Enhancing Strategies to Promote Individual Change in Behavioral Healthcare Settings
American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting
5th Annual Ottawa Conference: State of the Art Clinical Approaches to Smoking Cessation
Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, VIII
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Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science for Research Relevant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P50)
American Cancer Society requests applications for community-based participatory research
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General:

CDC seeking individuals for National Tobacco Education Campaign
TTAC's Fundamentals of Evaluation web-based course – registration deadline extended to September 7th
Legacy Fact Sheets
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FDA Announcements:

Easily add tobacco-related content to any website with FDA-CTP's content syndication feature
FDA Center for Tobacco Products progress report
More youth use tobacco than you may think
New tobacco product review and evaluation section of FDA-CTP website
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