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Tuesday, September 6, 2011 CDC Vital Signs MMWR » The CDC Vital Signs program, launched in 2010, addresses a single, important public health topic each month. The 15...
Friday, September 2, 2011 How we can protect our youth from Big Tobacco » By Kathleen Sebelius, Published: September 1 Four of the nation’s largest tobacco companies went to court l...
Thursday, August 25, 2011 State Preemption of Local Tobacco Control Policies » State legislation that preempts local restrictions on smoking, tobacco advertising, and youth access blocks community effo...
Friday, August 19, 2011 Menthol Cigarettes May Be Tougher to Quit » Menthol Cigarettes May Be Tougher to Quit - Web MD August 17, 2011 Smoking menthol cigarettes may make it harder...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 FDA Center for Tobacco Products Opportunities for Public Comment » Dear Stakeholder, This month, the FDA Center for Tobacco Products has two new opportunities for public commen...
Wednesday, August 17, 2011 Tobacco firms sue FDA over new graphic warnings » COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Four of the five largest U.S. tobacco companies sued the federal government Tuesday over new gra...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011 New Fact Sheets » NAQC would like to bring two excellent new fact sheets to you attention! First, the American Lung Association has distribu...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011 Press release: California's Priority Populations Launch a New Tobacco Control Initiative » FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - August 1, 2011 Contact: Rod Lew Executive Director for APPEAL (5...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011 E-Cigarette or Drug-Delivery Device? Regulating Novel Nicotine Products » Please find a perspective published in the New England Journal of Medicine entitled "E-Cigarette or Drug-Delivery De...
Thursday, July 21, 2011 The Hidden Epidemic: Tobacco Use and Mental Illness » Legacy offers a new publication entitled, The Hidden Epidemic: Tobacco Use and Mental Illness. It addresses the need for...
Thursday, July 14, 2011 Smoking in Top-Grossing Movies — United States, 2010 » Adolescents with the highest amount of exposure to onscreen smoking are about twice as likely to begin smoking as those wi...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Increasing Access to Tobacco Cessation in States: ActionToQuit Case Studies! » Partnership for Prevention has released an excellent new publication "Increasing Access to Tobacco Cessation in States: A...
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Policy News: ACS Cancer Action Network’s Reports! » On June 15 the ACS Cancer Action Network released a set of reports on the health and economic benefits of strong statewid...
Monday, July 11, 2011 Telehealth to Quit Video Consultation » New Smoking Cessation Telehealth Application Launched in the UK July 8, 2011 - Solutions 4 Health announced the lau...
Thursday, July 7, 2011 Risk of serious adverse cardiovascular events associated with varenicline: a systematic review » 1. Sonal Singh , 2. Yoon K. Loke , 3. John G. Spangler , 4. Curt D. Furberg "There ha...
Wednesday, July 6, 2011 Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly Accepts Public Health Leadership Award for Work to Ban Com. Tob. » President Ben Shelly Vice President Rex Lee Jim THE NAVAJO NATION CONTACT: Charmaine Jackson Communications Director Off...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Joint Commission Announces its New Tobacco Measure Set » Dear Colleagues, The U.S. Joint Commission has released its long-awaited tobacco measure set. The new certification measu...
Tuesday, July 5, 2011 Text Message Support for Smokers Doubles Quit Rates » Lancet: Text Message Support for Smokers Doubles Quit Rates Text Message Support for Smokers Doubles...
Saturday, July 2, 2011 (0 Comments - view/add) Smoking quit line calls spike with new labels » By Kelly April, Tribune reporter June 29, 2011 Smokers nationwide have deluged quit lines in the days...
Saturday, July 2, 2011 American Lung Association Releases 2010 Edition of State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues » The American Lung Association released the 2010 edition of State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues (SLATI), our annual...
Thursday, June 30, 2011 Daily 1-800-QUIT-NOW Call Volume Totals » With last week's announcement of the new cigarette health warning labels by the FDA, NCI has received several requests ask...
Friday, June 24, 2011 Update on Canadian Warning Labels and US Medicaid » It has been an exciting week for the entire quitline community! We would like to end the week with two great updates:...
Thursday, June 23, 2011 A watershed moment in LGBT Health » Lack of data is the single largest gap in the LGBT tobacco and health arena. Yesterday [June 21,2011] we got wonderful n...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 Press Release(in English and Spanish): FDA Releases Nine Graphic Warning Labels » FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ...
Wednesday, June 22, 2011 News coverage of new rule on warning labels » PROVIDED BY THE CAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO - FREE KIDS Print, online and TV coverage have all been extensive and prominent....
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 Increasing Access to Tobacco Cessation in States: ActionToQuit Case Studies » Partnership for Prevention has released an excellent new publication "Increasing Access to Tobacco Cessation in States: A...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011 Request for CMS Clarification-Meaningful Use and Quitlines! » NAQC signed on to a letter from the Multi-State Collaborative for Health Systems Change to Address Tobacco Use to the...
Friday, May 27, 2011 Commemorating World No Tobacco Day » CDC's Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) has assembled a small suite of products aimed at commemorating World No Tobacco D...
Friday, May 27, 2011 New AHRQ Resources in Cultural and Linguistic Competence » New Cultural and Linguistic Competence Resource A newpage has been added to the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchan...
Thursday, May 26, 2011 Report finds global smokers consider quitting due to graphic health warnings on packages » For Immediate Release Thursday, May 26, 2011 Contact: CDC's Office on Smoking and Health Press Line (770) 488-5...
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 Help Knock Tobacco Out of the Park » NAQC is a supporter of Tobacco Free Baseball, a public health campaign that is attempting to convince major league basebal...
Thursday, May 19, 2011 CDC Lists Tobacco Control in Ten Great Public Health Achievements of Past Decade » CDC Lists Tobacco Control in Ten Great Public Health Achievements of Past Decade, But U.S., States Must Step Up Fight to...
Monday, May 16, 2011 HBO to run story on MLB and chewing tobacco tomorrow night » HBO's Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel is going to do a piece on MLB and chewing tobacco as part of their May episode, which...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Menthol Press Release and Media Advisory » On May 12, the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Public Health Association, Center for American Progress and Legacy...
Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Free CME Program for Treating Tobacco Use & Dependence » The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health has announced the availability of a free, online, one-ho...
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