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Tobacco
Free Press - Table of Contents
January 2013
Secondhand Smoke
- Smoke-free laws linked to drop in child asthma attacks
- New national and state-specific data on smoke-free attitudes
- Smoking bans lead to fewer hospital visits (IA)
- Secondhand smoke exposure in the nonsmoking section: How much protection? (MN)
- Updated municipalities and states with active smoke-free laws list
- Colorado's casinos reach five-year anniversary of smoke-free air (CO)
- Today marks fifth anniversary of smoking ban (IL)
- Smoke-free public housing in RI (RI)
- Texas Senator drafts bill to ban public smoking (TX)
- Bill would ban smoking in cars with kids (VA)
- Russia moves toward strict smoking limits
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Tobacco Pricing
- Jindal considering cigarette tax increase (LA)
- Cigarette tax increase proposed in Minnesota (MN)
- Bill would increase state tax on cigarettes (NE)
- Wyoming lawmakers propose two tobacco tax increases (WY)
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Other Policy
- Nearly half of Americans would support reducing nicotine in cigarettes if and when the FDA exerts its authority to act on it
- U.S. states need to do more to reduce smoking: Study
- Rolling the dice on tobacco use
- Oil, pharmaceutical, health insurance, tobacco, banking and utilities top the list of industries that people would like to see more regulated
- Other tobacco products: A select bibliography of recent studies
- E-cigarettes banned for minors on New Year's Day (NY)
- Smoking penalty: Individual health care coverage could become unaffordable for many people
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Youth Prevention
- New study confirms states can reduce youth smoking with well-funded prevention programs, higher tobacco taxes and strong smoke-free laws
- Movie smoking and youth initiation: Parsing smoking imagery and other adult content
- Shareholders file anti-smoking resolutions with movie companies
- Survey of tobacco sales to minors in KY shows 94 percent compliance rate (KY)
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations
- Menthol cigarettes, race/ethnicity and biomarkers of tobacco use in US adults: The 1999-2010 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
- Impact of tobacco-related health warning labels across socioeconomic, race and ethnic groups: Results from a randomized web-based experiment
- Tobacco Use: A threat to Minnesota's communities (MN)
- Smoking key to closing racial gap in lung cancer (NE)
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Cessation
- New study finds that national EX® campaign is cost-effective in promoting quit attempts
- Improved physician-patient communication could influence pregnant women to quit smoking
- Chantix may up heart risk, FDA warns
- First ever evidence-based quit smoking app launches on Facebook
- Experts develop strategies for combating tobacco use in military
- Smoking cessation sales hit $1 billion as more Americans vow to put it out in 2013, reports Mintel
- New poll finds millions of smokers nationwide resolving to quit in the New Year
- Free training opportunity: Tobacco Use and Dependence: An Updated Review of Treatments
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Legal
- La. could lose $140 million in suit payout (LA)
- Alleged conflict of interest on FDA tobacco panel
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Tobacco Industry News
- Tobacco industry monitoring database
- Sales of e-cigarettes continue to soar
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Health Effects of Tobacco
- Report: Smoking takes 5 hours off life expectancy per day
- Smoking doubles women's sudden death risk
- Tobacco smoking linked to multiple sclerosis
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Data/Reports
- Tobacco Control State Highlights 2012
- 21st-century hazards of smoking and benefits of cessation in the United States
- 50-year trends in smoking-related mortality in the United States
- Blood pressure, smoking and alcohol: The health risks with the biggest burden
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Save the Date
- CADCA's 2013 National Leadership Forum
- Through with Chew Week
- Great American Spit Out
- Webinar: Social Marketing and Tobacco Campaigns
- Break Free Alliance Webinar on Dual Use
- Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting
- Kick Butts Day
- Public Workshop: "Third Party Governance of Industry-Sponsored Tobacco Product Research"
- 6th Annual Preparing for the 7th Generation Conference
- Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, VIII
- NACCHO Annual 2013
- National Summit on Smokeless & Spit Tobacco
- 2013 National Association of Local Boards of Health Annual Conference
- American Public Health Association Annual Meeting & Exposition
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Job Announcements
- Senior Analyst, Chronic Disease Prevention
- Health Program Specialist II / Chief, Strategic Planning and Policy Unit
- Tobacco Control Policy Analyst
- Research Assistant
- Public Health Analyst III
- Program/Project Director
- Public Health Policy Campaign Manager
- Research Assistant
- Data Associate
- Associate Director of Tobacco Industry Accountability, International Project
- Youth Engagement Director
- Director of Accounts
- Marketing Account Manager For Rural Teen Campaign
- Chief, Tobacco Control Research Branch
- O'Neill Law Fellows
- Public Health Research Director
- Health and Equity Fellowships
- Manager, Health Education Technology
- Associate Director, International Research
- Health Program Specialist I (HPS I)
- Country Director — Indonesia
- Health Communications Coordinator
- Policy Director
- Country Director
- Director of Programs
- Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various
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Requests for Proposals
- NIH revision applications for research relevant to the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (P30)
- 2013 Visiting Lectureship Program
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Awards
- Call for Nominations: Unsung Heroes in Tobacco Control Award
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Other Announcements
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FDA Announcements:
- FDA requests comments and scientific evidence on proposed rule: Smokeless Tobacco Product Warning Statements
- FDA publishes Unified Agenda of Regulations
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