Secondhand Smoke

• The prevalence of selected potentially hazardous workplace exposures in the US: Findings from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey
• Secondhand smoke exposure persists in multiunit housing
• Study: Benefits of Wisconsin's smoke-free law spread from work to home (WI)
• NALBOH offers tobacco prevention toolkit
• ANRF releases new smoke-free lists, maps, and data
• Michigan smoking ban didn't hurt businesses, health department study says (MI)
• Nearly half of Ga. school districts tobacco-free (GA)
• China, United States cooperate on smoking control in workplaces (China)
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Tobacco Pricing

• Menthol cigarette pricing at military and community retail outlets in the United States
• Cigarette price minimization strategies used by adults
• Shut out of name-brand cigarettes, the Onondaga Nation will roll its own (NY)
• Oklahoma tribal cigarette sales hit decade low (OK)
• Tax hike cuts tobacco consumption
• Tobacco tax hike to go before voters again (MO)
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Other Policy

• New fact sheet on the basics of tobacco retailer licensing
• New licensing resources available from the Center for Tobacco Policy and Organizing
• Governor Cuomo signs bills to protect New York's youth from harmful effects of cigarettes (NY)
• Plain cigarette packs whack (Australia)
• Duty-free smokes crackdown to cause delays (Australia)
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Youth Prevention

• ADHD treatment may reduce smoking risk
• Popular kids in US and Mexico more likely to smoke, studies show
• Eight tips for talking with youth about tobacco
• Tobacco-free campuses: Promoting a culture of health
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium's new publication "Cause and Effect"
• Limiting "teen-friendly" cigars
• State survey finds about 10 percent of Florida teens are smoking (FL)
• High school smoking sees big decline in Utah (UT)
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations

• The role of ethnic pride and parental disapproval of smoking on smoking behaviors among minority and white adolescents in a suburban high school
• High cigarette taxes disproportionately burden low-income families
• State tobacco control plans: Who falls outside the plans?
• A transnational study of migration and smoking behavior in the Mexican-origin population
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Cessation

• Federal report: Increases in quitline calls and smoking cessation website visitors during a national tobacco education campaign
• Think about the future. Does it include quitting smoking?: Study
• Anti-smoking campaign hopes gift cards do the trick (CA)
• Maine petitions feds to cut Medicaid funds for smoking cessation programs (ME)
• North American Quitline releases new Quality Improvement Initiative Issue Paper
• Effectiveness of stop-smoking medications: findings from the International Tobacco Control (ITC) Four Country Survey
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Legal

• Creek chief, Fallin sign compact governing sale of tobacco on tribal land
• New publications from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium
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Tobacco Industry News

• Tobacco companies spending less on promotion
• Reynolds adds aids to stop smoking
• E-cigs gaining ground: Survey shows segment's growth, retailer optimism
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Health Effects of Tobacco

• Brain bleeds more common in smokers, research shows
• UF researcher in Jacksonville finds cigarettes squelch good cholesterol
• Why children of smokers are sicker
• Tobacco smoke tied to flu complications in kids
• Link between secondhand smoke exposure and memory problems
• Teen obesity linked to mom's smoking in pregnancy: Study
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Data/Reports

• One in five U.S. adults smoke, tied for all-time low
• Special journal issue: Impact of tobacco control on lung cancer mortality in the United States over the period 1975–2000
• Home stress, work stress linked with increased smoking
• Current tobacco use among adults in the United States: Findings from the National Adult Tobacco Survey
• New survey: Indonesia has highest male smoking rate in the world (Indonesia)
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Save the Date

• Webinar: Current Trends in "Roll-Your-Own" Tobacco Regulation
• Webinar: Implications for Global Quitlines of a Recent Study on NRT and Quitline Counseling in England
• Webinar: The National Asian Quitline: A Tobacco Cessation Resource for Asian-language Speakers
• Summit on Tobacco Policy
• Webinar: Implementing Evidence-based Interventions within Healthcare Systems
• Webinar: Implementation of the Affordable Care Act: Next Steps for Tobacco Control
• 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
• CADCA's 2013 National Leadership Forum
• Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) Annual Meeting
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Job Announcements

• China Programs Associate
• Program Officer, International Grants (South/Southeast Asia)
• Project Director
• Coordinator, Tobacco Control Program
• Project Director, Internet Tobacco Vendor Study
• Research Scientist 5 (Epidemiology) / Director, Comprehensive State Tobacco Control Program
• Health Education Coordinator
• Country Director — Indonesia
• Challenge Big Tobacco Organizer
• Outreach Coordinator
• Head of International Social Media
• Bilingual Spanish-English Tobacco Treatment Specialist
• Program Coordinator
• Health Communications Coordinator
• Policy Director
• Country Director
• Program Manager, West Virginia Tobacco Quitline
• Program Coordinator
• Director of Programs
• Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various
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Awards

• Model Practices 2013 application coming this fall
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Other Announcements

FDA Announcements:

• Compliance check inspections of tobacco product retailers
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