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Tobacco
Free Press - Table of Contents
January 2014
Secondhand Smoke
- Smoking ban policies and their influence on smoking behaviors among current California smokers: A population-based study
- Trends in tobacco smoke exposure and blood lead levels among youths and adults in the United States: The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999–2008
- Smoke-free lists, maps, and data updated
- "Regulating smoking in multi-unit housing" factsheet updated
- Report: Smoking ban fears unfounded four years later (NC)
- Chicago bans indoor electronic cigarette smoking (IL)
- Beshear to push plan to cut smoking rates in Kentucky (KY)
- E-cigarettes to be banned under Oklahoma governor's executive order (OK)
- Can China really stop 350 million people from smoking? (China)
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Tobacco Pricing
- Public opinions on tax and retail-based tobacco control strategies
- Cigarette trafficking in five northeastern U.S. cities
- U.S. state and local tax fact sheets updated
- Proposed cigarette tax increase in Florida sparking debate on the First Coast (FL)
- Special supplement: Economic aspects of tobacco use in low- and middle-income countries
- China increases average purchase price of tobacco by 5 percent (China)
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Other Policy
- Recent increases in efficiency in cigarette nicotine delivery: Implications for tobacco control
- Changes in effectiveness of cigarette health warnings over time in Canada and the United States, 2002–2011
- No place to hide: two pilot studies assessing the effectiveness of adding a health warning to the cigarette stick
- The potential and peril of health insurance tobacco surcharge programs: Evidence from Georgia's State Employees Health Benefit Plan
- Florida Senate panel approves playground smoking ban (FL)
- Indiana Chamber backs employers not hiring smokers (IN)
- Lawmakers override LePage veto of smoking-cessation bill (ME)
- Impact of a point-of-sale tobacco display ban on smokers' spontaneous purchases (Australia)
- EU strikes deal on tough new anti-tobacco rules (European Union)
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Youth Prevention
- Secondhand smoke exposure in cars and in rooms: Trend comparisons among subpopulations of nonsmoking U.S. middle and high school students
- The effect of prices on cigarette use among youths in the Global Youth Tobacco Survey
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Tobacco-Related Disparities in Specific Populations
- The effects of a tobacco intervention on binge drinking among African American light smokers
- Trends in smoking among adults with mental illness and association between mental health treatment and smoking cessation
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Cessation
- Tobacco control 50 years after the 1964 surgeon general's report
- Smoking cessation during pregnancy and postpartum: Practice patterns among obstetrician-gynecologists
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Legal
- Altria wins appeals court ruling in New York smokers case (NY)
- Deal reached on tobacco firm corrective statements
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FDA Announcements
- Safety Reporting Portal can be used to document damaged or unsafe tobacco products
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Data/Reports
- Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs—2014
- Prevention Status Reports, 2013
- The health consequences of smoking—50 years of progress: A report of the Surgeon General, 2014
- Current cigarette smoking among adults — United States, 2005–2012
- Annual report to the nation on the status of cancer, 1975-2010, featuring prevalence of comorbidity and impact on survival among persons with lung, colorectal, breast, or prostate cancer
- Lung cancer incidence trends among men and women — United States, 2005–2009
- "State of Tobacco Control" report
- Fewer Americans see cigarette smoking as a major public health problem
- Smoking prevalence and cigarette consumption in 187 countries, 1980-2012
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Other Tobacco Products
- Multiple tobacco product use among adults in the United States: Cigarettes, cigars, electronic cigarettes, hookah, smokeless tobacco, and snus
- Cigarette smokers' use of unconventional tobacco products and associations with quitting activity: Findings from the ITC-4, U.S. cohort
- The land of 10,000 tobacco products: How Minnesota led the way in regulating tobacco products (MN)
- New e-cig TV spot comes very close to making health claims
- Utah health status update: Electronic cigarette use among Utah students (grades 8, 10, 12) and adults (UT)
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Save the Date
- Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America 24th National Leadership Forum
- Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco Annual Meeting
- Webinar: Addressing Tobacco Use Among Pregnant Women in West Virginia
- Through With Chew Week
- Webinar: Smoke Free Movies: Averting a Million Premature Deaths
- Kick Butts Day
- Reduce Tobacco Use Conference 2014
- Promising Practices to Promote Tobacco-Free Active Living and Healthy Eating in Low Socioeconomic Status Communities
- Clearing the Air: An Institute for Policy Advocacy, IX
- American Public Health Association Annual Meeting and Exposition
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Job Announcements
- Assistant or Associate Professor (3 positions available)
- Director, Research
- FDA Tobacco Regulatory Science Fellowship
- Senior Program Analyst, Chronic Disease Prevention
- Policy Fellowship
- Research Group Manager (LGBT Young Adult Research)
- Research Manager (LGBT Young Adult Research)
- Manager, Youth Activism
- Advocacy Coordinator
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship -
Focus on communication to vulnerable populations
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship -
Focus on FDA regulation of tobacco and communication
- Post-Doctoral Fellowship -
Focus on risk communication messages for novel tobacco products
- Public Policy Attorney
- Program Assistant
- Program Manager
- India States Manager (New Delhi, India)
- Associate Director of International Communications
- Director/Senior Research Specialist, Economic and Health Policy Research
- Senior Adolescent Health Scientist
- Country Director — Indonesia
- Policy Director
- Country Director
- Jobs at the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), Various
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Awards
- Call for applications: 2014 Youth Advocate of the Year (YAYA) Awards
- Call for nominations: Benjamin Chu Integration Award
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Other Announcements
- Call for applications: Julius B. Richmond Visiting Lectureships Program
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