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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