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2012 Tobacco Control in the News

May

• Study Says Children Exposed to Tobacco Smoke Face Long-Term Respiratory Problems
• Lung Cancer Screening Guidelines Updated
• The Book Big Tobacco Doesn’t Want You to Read
• Dramatic New Findings Support Menthol As A Starter Tobacco Product For Youth
• Youth Smoking Falls as Taxes Make Cigarettes Too Costly
• Behind the Scenes in the Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry
• Secondhand Smoke May Harm Heart Function
• Commissioners Attempt to Ban Flavored Tobacco
• The Future of the Global Tobacco Industry: One Billion Smokers in 2050
• After a Life Lost to Tobacco, Healthy Message Offered
• Researchers Launch Facebook Site to Monitor Tobacco Industry Tactics
• State’s Smoking Ban Already Benefiting Workers
• Citywide Ban on Public smoking Can Impact Maternal and Fetal Health
• Many Kids Exposed to Smoke Despite Parents’ Claims
• Contest Educates Young Baseball And Softball Players About The Dangers Of Tobacco Use
• About 20% of White Women Smoke While Pregnant
• Ad for Cigarette Tax Initiative Attacks Tobacco Industry
• Blog: Tobacco Control, Plain Packaging, and Media Misinformation
• Big Tobacco Wins Fire Marshals as Allies in Flame Retardant Push
• Tobacco Companies Add $15 Million to Fight Cigarette Tax
• Cardiologists Urged to Lead in Smoking Cessation
• Jury Out on Alternative Therapy for Smokers
• The Indoorsman—A love-Hate Relationship with Smoking
• Why is Tobacco Control Still a Problem in Europe?
• Kansas Bill Would Ease Smoking Ban
• Increase in Teen Marijuana Use, Decrease in Teen Smoking
• Tobacco’s War on Women
• Air Force Hospitals and Clinics Are Now Tobacco-Free
• Editorial: Big Tobacco Wants You to Think Doctors Oppose Cigarette Tax
• 5 Prevention Programs GOP Hopes to Target

April

• Apartment Dwellers Often Subjected to Neighbors’ Tobacco Smoke
• Study Finds Smoking Leads to Increase in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
• Study Explores Links Between Smoking During Pregnancy, Autism
• Anti-Smoking TV Ads From Tobacco Industry Don’t Help
• Should Tobacco Be Sold in Standardized Packs? The Answer is Plain
• Warnings on Cigarette Packs May Keep Ex-Smokers from Relapse
• Exercise Helps Smokers to Quit Smoking, to Remain Smoke-Free and to Reduce the Risk of Death
• Group Brings Attention To #1 Litter Problem In America: Cigarette Butts
• Do Anti-Tobacco Ads Work? Ask a ‘Neural Focus Group’
• Hispanics Seem to Have Better Odds of Lung Cancer Survival
• Judges Seem Wary of Overruling Tobacco Judgment
• Tobacco Marketing Targets Low-Income, Black Youth, Researchers Say
• Big Tobacco Groups Fear Spread of Plain Packaging
• Global Ignorance of Tobacco’s Harm to Cardiovascular Health Costing Lives
• Higher Cigarette Taxes Drove Smokers to Pipe Tobacco and Cigars
• Half of Young Cigarette Smokers Also Smoke Pot
• Big Tobacco Paid States $6.5B in Last Year
• After the Smoke Clears, Danger Still Lurks
• Tobacco Company CEOs Cash In While States Cut Back on Prevention
• Study Recommends National Standards for Tobacco Use Treatment in Cancer Centers
• Nicotine Patch May Help Prevent Smoking Relapses
• Are Sports and Nicotine Compatible?
• Smoking Associated with Hip and Knee Replacement Failure
• Oregon Health Plan Members Still Puffing Away
• Opinion: Smoke-Free Foster Care is Common Sense
• Could Anti-Smoking Hit the Jackpot Outside Atlantic City Casinos?
• Legacy and Lung Cancer Alliance Release of New Study: Lung Cancer Screening is Cost Effective
• Can Mindfulness Help You Quit Smoking?
• Federal Court to Weigh Graphic Cigarette Labels
• Could Menthol Cigarettes Pose Even Higher Stroke Risk?
• Blumenthal Announces Historic Steps In Fight Against Big Tobacco, Calls For More To Be Done
• Dutch Anti-Smoking Campaign Uses Cigarettes As Art
• WTO Ruling Is Blow to U.S. Anti-Smoking Effort
• Big Tobacco Goes All in Against Prop 29
• Smoking at Home an Issue for Some Neighbors
• Using Mobile Apps to Aid Smoking Cessation
• Let’s Recognize Smoking as the Workplace Enemy It Is
• NFPA: Smoking-Materials Fire Deaths Drop to 30-Year Low
• Cancer-Causing Chemical Found in Smokeless Tobacco
• Why Women Find it Harder to Quit Smoking
• FDA Advances On Two Fronts In The War On Tobacco
• Debut of graphic CDC anti-smoking ads is followed by a boom in calls to quit line

March

• Altria and Liggett Join Anti-Smokers in Pressuring Roll-Your-Own Shops
• States’ Efforts to Boost Cigarette Taxes Slows: CDC
• Continued Smoking Can Spread Cancer
• Smoking Seen as Schizophrenia Risk Factor
• Opinion: Anti-Amoking Effort for Substance Abusers is ‘Anemic’
• Supreme Court Won’t Hear Tobacco Case
• Smoking Ban is Improving Health in Scotland
• Smoke-Free Casinos Inevitable Everywhere, Advocate Says
• Tobacco Meet Ends with Call for Action
• Alternative Tobacco Use Outpaces Cigarette Smoking Among Teens
• Increase in Youth Smoking: The Surgeon General’s Pink Panther Public Health Policy
• FDA Panel: Dissolvable Tobacco Could Reduce Risks
• Bloomberg Charity Adds $220 Million to Anti-Smoking Effort
• Kids Across America Will ‘Kick Butts’ on March 21
• New Study Calls Attention to Tobacco’s Disproportionate Impact on Poor Nations
• Exposure to Smoking during Childhood May Predict COPD
• Federal Appeals Court Rules Tobacco Health Labels are Constitutional
• Amendment to Highway Bill Sideswipes Little Tobacco
• Anti-Smoking Symbol Reveals ‘Worst Moment’
• Missouri House Proposal Would Take Tobacco out of Prisons
• Nemours Researchers Uncover New Evidence of Harmfulness of Secondhand Smoke
• 800,000 Lives Saved Through Tobacco Control
• CDC Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign Set to Launch
• NJ Lawmaker Pushes Tobacco Tax Hike
• Tobacco’s Status in Trade Deal Contested; Kentucky Growers Urge Crop’s Inclusion
• Campaign Aims to Shield Youth from Tobacco Displays
• Revenue and Taxation Committee Sides with Big Tobacco over Idaho’s Kids
• Tobacco Titans Finally Go on Trial on Monday

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