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Monday, June 15, 2020 Nation’s Public Health Leaders Stand United Against Racism. » ARLINGTON, VA—The Association of State and Territorial Health Officials’ (ASTHO) leadership—including Nate Smith, MD, MPH,...
Monday, June 15, 2020 The National Center of Excellence Summer Webinar Series is Now in Session with FREE CME/CEUs! » The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center (SCLC) has announced FREE continuing education units (CEUs), for the Cen...
Monday, June 15, 2020 WEBINAR on July 21: Smoke-free Public Housing: Helping Residents Quit Tobacco. » Tuesday, July 21, 2-3 p.m. ET Join in for a lessons learned webinar to mark the end of the project period for the &nbs...
Monday, June 15, 2020 WEBINAR on June 24: American Cancer Society - Zoom Webinar on Surgeon General's Report on Smoking Ce » Wednesday, June 24, 1 p.m. ET Since the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health was released in 1964, cig...
Monday, June 15, 2020 WEBINAR on June 23: CDC’s Public Health Grand Rounds Presents: “Smoking Cessation: Past, Present, an » Tuesday, June 23, 2020, 1- 2 p.m. ET CDC is pleased to announce a virtual session of Public Health Grand Roun...
Monday, June 15, 2020 WEBINAR on June 17: Webinar on Engaging Rural Populations Using Quitlines. » Over the past year, National Jewish Health partnered with the Behavioral Health and Wellness Program (BHWP) at the Univers...
Wednesday, May 27, 2020 Webinar on Combatting Tobacco Industry Interference Before, During, & After the Age of COVID-19 » A webinar this Thursday, May 28th at 12:00pm ET follows the World Health Organization's theme for World No Tobacco Day (th...
Friday, May 15, 2020 QUITPLAN Services and Minnesota's New Program, Quit Partner. » April 1, 2020, the Minnesota Department of Health launched a new statewide, free tobacco and nicotine cessation programs u...
Friday, May 15, 2020 New York State Officially Bans the Sale of Flavored e-Cigarettes. » "Enact a Comprehensive Tobacco Control Policy. Governor Cuomo has taken unprecedented steps to ensure the health and...
Friday, May 15, 2020 Hospitalizations and Deaths Associated with EVALI. » Since August 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, state and local...
Friday, May 15, 2020 UPDATED: 2020 Surgeon General’s Report (SGR) on Smoking Cessation. » We hope you’ve been using the 2020 Surgeon General’s Report to promote smoking cessation. There are excellent resources th...
Friday, May 15, 2020 COVID-19 Resource Compilation. » NY Times Articles Smokers and Vapers May Be at Greater Risk for Covid-19- https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/0...
Friday, May 15, 2020 June 24 WEBINAR: American Cancer Society - Zoom Webinar on Surgeon General's Report on Smoking Cessa » 1 pm ET Since the first Surgeon General’s report on smoking and health was released in 1964, cigarette smoking among...
Friday, May 15, 2020 June 3 WEBINAR: American Lung Association - Tobacco Cessation and Lung Cancer Screening. » 1-2 pm ET Joelle Thirsk Fathi, DNP, RN, ARNP, CTTS is an Adult Acute Care Nurse Practitioner and Certified Tobacco Tr...
Friday, May 15, 2020 May 31 - World No Tobacco Day. » The World Health Organization (WHO) designates 31st May of each year as the World No Tobacco Day (WNTD). The theme of WNTD...
Friday, May 15, 2020 May 20 WEBINAR: Health Links - Resiliency and Mental Wellness in the Workplace. » 11-12 pm ET Health Links(a program of the Center for Health, Work & Environment at the Colorado Schoo...
Friday, May 15, 2020 Sunday, May 17 - No Menthol Sunday! » NAATPN invites all of us to join the faith community on a national observance day dedicated to educating congregants and c...
Friday, May 15, 2020 May 15 WEBINAR: Southwest Navajo Tobacco Education Prevention Project - Strategies to Reopen Tribal » 1-2 pm CT On behalf of Southwest Navajo Tobacco Education Prevention Project (SNTEPP) and American Non-Smoker Rights...
Thursday, March 26, 2020 Truth Initiative: What Products are Still Allowed Under the New Flavored e-cigarette Policy? » The new federal policy on flavored e-cigarettes, which went into effect in February, is a far cry from the total ban on fl...
Thursday, March 26, 2020 CDC, States Update Number of Hospitalized EVALI Cases and EVALI Deaths. » CDC recently announced the updated number of hospitalized e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injury (EVAL...
Thursday, March 26, 2020 CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) Recently Released New Tobacco-related Articles. » Self ‐ Reported Exposure to, Perceptions about, and Attitudes about Public Marijuana Smoking among US Adults, 2018...
Thursday, March 26, 2020 FDA’s Graphic Cigarette Warnings Show and Tell the Deadly Truth About Smoking – They Must Be Fully I » Statement of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, A...
Thursday, March 26, 2020 COVID-19: Never Has it Been More Important for Smokers to Quit and for Individuals to Avoid Damaging » In a recent blog, Dr. Nora Volkow , director of the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse, posted the following: ...
Thursday, March 26, 2020 Congressional Investigators Find that Juul Targeted Native American Tribe. » According to a report recently released by Congressional investigators, Juul targeted Native American tribes when trying t...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 State Program Funding Resources from Tobacco Free Kids. » Below is a list of materials that were developed to support state tobacco prevention programs and help defend against cuts...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 Best Practices User Guide: Youth Engagement in Tobacco Prevention and Control. » The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health has published an updated Best Prac...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 Trump Plan to Eliminate FDA Oversight of Tobacco Is Recipe for Further Delay in Protecting Kids from » Statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump Administration’s...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 CDC, States Update Number of Hospitalized EVALI Cases and EVALI Deaths. » On February 11, CDC announced the updated number of hospitalized e-cigarette, or vaping, product use associated lung injur...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General. » We are excited to announce the release of the new report, Smoking Cessation: A Report of the Surgeon General – Inf...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 Is Your Quitline Using the Take Back and Transfer (TNT) Protocol? » We have received a number of requests from quitline service providers regarding use of the Take Back and Transfer protocol...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 CALL FOR INFORMATION: Federal Register Notice Requesting Information on Health Equity due March 23, » CALL FOR INFORMATION: Federal Register Notice Requesting Information on Health Equity due March 23, 2020. On January...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 WEBINAR ON MARCH 11: Save-the-date. » On March 11 th from 3:00 – 4:30 PM ET, NAQC will host a webinar that will highlight the key outcomes from Establishing...
Thursday, February 13, 2020 WEBINAR ON FEBRUARY 18: A Smoke-free Home Intervention in Permanent Supportive Housing for Formerly » Please join the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at UCSF for this live webinar, “A smoke-free home intervention in perm...
Monday, February 3, 2020 JAMA - Lung cancer screening decision aid delivered through tobacco quitlines improves informed deci » Dear Colleagues, In a study published on January 31, 2020 in JAMA Network Open, researchers from the Unive...
Wednesday, January 29, 2020 ALA "State of Tobacco Control" 2020 » Dear Colleagues, Please find below the “State of Tobacco Control” 2020 report from the American Lung Association. ...
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