Update from ActionToQuit

Reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,

Legacy is seeking nominations for their 2013 Community Activist Award. If you would like to nominate a colleague for his or her contribution to tobacco control, read Legacy’s announcement below for more information.

Here is a new opinion article by Neal L. Benowitz and Maciej L. Goniewicz in the Journal of the American Medical Association entitled The Regulatory Challenge of Electronic Cigarettes.

Global Bridges has posted a new blog about an anti-tobacco youth campaign in the UK called “Cut films”.  The blog describes the campaign and how the life of writer and activist Deborah Hutton’s struggle with lung cancer led to its inception.

Legacy is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2013 Community Activist Award. The award will honor an influential community leader for spearheading impactful tobacco control efforts, especially those that reflect Legacy's mission to build a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. The award winner will be recognized by Legacy and receive a $2,500 honorarium.  DEADLINE FOR NOMINATIONS - Tuesday, September 17, 2013. To submit a nomination and for more information, please visit www.legacyforhealth.org/caa. 

Update published by Sandhia Rajan, ActionToQuit Program Manager

ActiontoQuit - Advancing Tobacco Control Policy
1015 18th St NW, Suite 300 | Washington, DC 20036

Action to Quit Update

Posted by Action ToQuit. Reposted by http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,

As the 4^th of July approaches, the CDC has developed materials and resources to encourage smokers to become independent from cigarettes.  See below more information.

Here are three recent tobacco control articles of interest:

An Update on Tobacco Control Initiatives in Comprehensive Cancer Control Plans

The FDA's Graphic Tobacco Warnings and the First Amendment

Sexual Minority Young Adults Smoke at Higher Rates than their Heterosexual Peers

 Ancient Buttheads

 Cigarette pack version of iPhone’s Siri

Update from Action to Quit

Reposted at http://www.tobaccodeathray.blogspot.com,

Last week we sent out a fact sheet on thirdhand smoke. A study reveals some new information on the harmful effects of thirdhand smoke. Read more HERE.

Most tobacco users make several quit attempts before they are successful. The American Lung Association received a grant from WellPoint Inc. to support their Quitter in You program. The campaign’s intention is to empower people trying to quit smoking by acknowledging that past quit attempts are not failures, but are normal and necessary steps along the way to quitting for good. A new website - http://www.quitterinyou.org/ - is one of the many features of the program.  Read more HERE.   

Can intervention for adult tobacco dependence be done in pediatric practices? A study to be published in the July 2013 issue of Pediatrics considers this question. The study is also detailed in this news story.

Yesterday Partnership for Prevention and nine other organizations submitted a joint public comment to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The comment urges CMS to include the four Joint Commission tobacco measures as a smoking cessation set in the 2013 Proposed Rule on Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS). If the tobacco measures are incorporated in the IPPS it would create a financial incentive for hospitals to report on them, extending higher annual payment rates to those hospitals that do so. As hospitals improve their performance, more inpatients will receive cost-effective tobacco cessation services and many will quit their tobacco use.

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration authorized the marketing of two new tobacco products through the substantial equivalence (SE) pathway, and denied the marketing of four others. Additionally, the Agency announced the refusal to accept 20 “Exemption from SE” requests and the withdrawal of 136 SE reports by industry sponsors. Click HERE for more information.

Here is a new e-cigarette clinical trial out of Italy. It concluded, “In smokers not intending to quit, the use of e-cigarettes, with or without nicotine, decreased cigarette consumption and elicited enduring tobacco abstinence without causing significant side effects”.

Super Smokey and aging avatars.

Presented by Sandhia Rajan, ActionToQuit Program Manager