Engaging Tribes to Raise Tobacco Taxes
Learning Objectives:
• Participants will be able to identify and apply at least one method engage tribal communities to raise tribal tobacco taxes.
• Participants will be able to differentiate between state and tribal tobacco taxes.
Speaker:
Vanessa
Tibbitts,
Oglala Lakota, is the Program Manager for the Northern Plains Tribal Tobacco
Technical Assistance Center at the Great Plains Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board.
She provides assistance to tobacco control activities with tribes in the
Northern Plains region. Vanessa serves American Indians using the skills
she has acquired professionally, academically, and through her elders for the
future of her people.
Tuesday,
April 23, 2013 from 3:00 - 4:00 PM ET
Space
is limited. After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the Webinar.
Global Bridges -
Going Mobile: The Potential of mHealth for Tobacco Dependence Treatment
Erik
Augustson, Ph.D., MPH, the program director of the Tobacco Control Research
Branch of the National Cancer Institute, will discuss the use of mHealth for
health behavior interventions, particularly in tobacco dependence. mHealth has
been defined as “health-related services delivered by mobile communication
devices,” which can be in the form of SMS messaging, smartphone applications,
or the mobile web. The webinar will focus on text message-based
interventions, such as NCI’s SmokefreeTXT, and the opportunity to implement
such interventions at an international level.
Tuesday,
April 23, 2013 from 1:00 – 2:00 pm ET
Tobacco
Control Network Webinar - An Introduction to E-Cigarettes for States and Locals
This
webinar is a collaboration between The National Association of Local Boards of
Health and the Tobacco Control Network. It will feature speakers from the
Tobacco Control Legal Consortium, Legacy, Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights,
California Attorney General’s Office, and Tacoma-Pierce County Health
Department, WA.
Participants will be able to:
Describe e-cigarettes and other electronic nicotine delivery devices that are currently on the market.
- Evaluate policy options for regulating
e-cigarettes at the state and local levels.
- Describe regulatory actions state and
local governments can take to protect the public’s health from the
potential hazards of e-cigarettes
American
Academy of Pediatrics Webinar - Smokescreens and the Silver Screen: Smoking in
the Media
The
webinar will focus on the influence of smoking imagery on children and evidence
for smoking initiation. Different types of media will be covered, as well as
strategies to discuss the impact of smoking imagery with children, adolescents,
and families in a pediatric clinical setting. Featured presenters include Jim
Sargent, MD, FAAP of the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Jennifer
Shu, MD, FAAP, of the Children's Medical Group in Atlanta. This webinar is
approved for a maximum of 1.50 AMA
PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Can't make the live webinar? No problem-
the archived webinar will also be offered for a maximum of 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™ through
the AAP Richmond Center
Web site. Contact richmondcenter@aap.org
with any questions.
Monday,
May 13, 2013 from 2:00 - 3:30pm ET
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