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TRY OUR SEARCH ENGINE 5-17-02 - The Minneapolis Star-Tribune published an excellent editorial ( Keep MPAAT ) citing our brief on May 17. Read it here. 5-1-02 - TCRC files amicus brief to dispel misinformation about MPAAT and to inform the court about the successful tobacco control efforts in Massachusetts. Read more here. A decision from the court is expected soon. 10-16-01- US Court of Appeals ...

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July 26, 2002 Press statement by Dr. Cathy Melvin, Director, Smoke-Free Families National Dissemination Office: New CDC Study Emphasizes Need to Increase Access to Smoking Cessation Services View statement in pdf format April 25, 2002: News Release: The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit is Formed to Reduce Infant Mortality, Number of Low-Birth-Weight Babies. View news release in ...

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Curbing the Epidemic Development In Practice Curbing the Epidemic : Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control. (c) 1999 THE WORLD BANK, WASHINGTON D.C. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/THE WORLD BANK, 1818 H Street, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20433 All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America First printing May 1999 The findings, interpretations, ...

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State-specific prevalence of adult smoking ranged from 12.9-30.5% in 2000, and high levels of public support exist even among smokers for smoke-free policies in some settings.

JEFFREY E. HARRIS Department of Economics Massachusetts Institute of Technology Selected Publications, Reports and Testimony Updated May 20, 2002 Jeffrey E. Harris and Martin Morad, The Effect of Ca-K Interaction on the Plateau of the Cardiac Action Potential, Physiologist 14 (1974): 150. Oliver Williamson, Michael Wachter, and Jeffrey E. Harris, Understanding the Employment Relation: The ...

Making the Case: State Tobacco Control Briefing Papers The Master Settlement Agreement reached in November 1998 created the potential for significant new investment in tobacco prevention and control. As state funding battles continue across the country today, tobacco control activists have an opportunity to create programs that can reduce the health, social and economic damage caused by tobacco ...

Rethinking Stop-Smoking Medications: myths and facts Ontario Medical Association, June 1999 Acknowledgements This paper was prepared by Nicole de Guia, project manager and researcher, with direction and support from Dr. Ted Boadway, Patricia North, and Carol Jacobson of the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) Health Policy Department, and Michael Perley of the Ontario Campaign for Action on ...

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Home | Issues | Classifieds | More... | Topics | Search Editorial Smoking is a major cause of blindness A new cigarette pack warning MJA 1999; 171: 173-174 Health warnings on Australian tobacco products have been mandated through federal legislation since 1973, being updated in 1987 and 1995. Issue of the current warnings followed a detailed study examining the likely impact of prototypes, ...

TOBACCO DEATH TOLL Human Resources Development and Operations Policy HRO DISSEMINATION NOTES Number 1, February, 1993 Added to all the most fearsome plagues (the Black Death, smallpox, malaria, and tuberculosis), a man-made plague--diseases resulting from the smoking, chewing and snuffing of tobacco--is now the leading scourge of the twentieth century. But unlike most microbial plagues, damage ...

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ACTION ON SMOKING AND HEALTH A National Legal Action Antismoking Organization Entirely Supported By Tax-Deductible Contributions Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health *** Co-chairs: C. Everett Koop, M.D., Sc.D. and David A. Kessler, M.D. *** JULY 1997 Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public Health TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction by ...

5168.0: Wednesday, November 15, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development: Lessons Learned and More to Do In this session, we will present case studies to provide an overview of the development of smoking restriction policies in the United States and Canada. The case studies will allow us to explore differences in the development of policies depending on whether ...

Tobacco FACT SHEETS Heard on the World-Wide-Web Tobacco Facts Tobacco: The Growing Global Epidemic Proposed U.S. Policy To Address International Tobacco Use And Promote Global Public Health U.S. Taxpayer Funds Must Not Be Used to Promote Tobacco Use Overseas A Global Code of Conduct For U.S. Tobacco Companies Truly Retiring the Marlboro Man: Extending U.S. Marketing and Labeling Restrictions ...

Achievements in Tobacco Cessation Case Studies Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine South Portland, ME Blue Cross Blue Shield of Maine (BCBSME), a 110, 000-member IPA-model plan, is currently in the third year of its population-based tobacco control initiative. This strategy is based on the 1996 AHCPR Clinical Practice Guideline on Smoking Cessation. Benefit design, education, network reimbursement, ...

The Use of Counter-Advertising As a Tobacco Use Deterrent Based on a paper by K. Michael Cummings, Ph.D., M.P.H. and Hillary Clarke, J.D., Department of Cancer Control & Epidemiology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute for the Advocacy Institutes Health Science Analysis Project, April 14, 1998. Making the Case: State Tobacco Control Briefing Papers Making the Case Index Executive Summary 1. Based on ...

Channing Bete Company, Inc.'s Position on Accepting Money from Tobacco Companies for the Purchase of Smoking Prevention or Cessation Products We at the Channing Bete Company, Inc. (CBC) have thought carefully about our position not to accept money from tobacco companies for the purchase of smoking prevention or cessation products. We are a for-profit publisher. However, we don't want to profit ...

Death and Tobacco Taxes Volume:Volume 27, No. 2 Issue: Summer 1996 Pages: pp. 415-248 Authors: Michael J. Moore Title: Death and Tobacco Taxes Abstract: This article analyzes the effects of tobacco excise tax changes on mortality. Reduced-form regressions of mortality rates on tobacco taxes for the years 1954-1988, with controls for state, year, income, alcoholic beverage taxes, age ...

European Respiratory Society ERS NEWSLETTER July 99 - Vol. 9 - No. 2 Contents Editorial Welcome to Madrid Madrid Hotlines Madrid scientific programme Spring pre-congress meeting Florence 2000 Who's who Short notes from the scientific assemblies Executive Committee meeting, February Executive Committee meeting, May Research Seminars Meeting Calendar Editorial The political and ethical ...

Testimony of John R. Garrison CEO and Managing Director of the American Lung Association before the U.S. Senate Committee on Judiciary March 6, 1998 Mr. Chairman, members of the committee, I am John R. Garrison, CEO of the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association is the oldest voluntary health agency in America. We were founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis and for more than ...

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4101.2: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 12:30 PM-2:00 PM Impacts on Tobacco Use and Policy Board 1 Cigar smoking among U.S. college students Nancy A. Rigotti, MD, Henry Wechsler, PhD Board 2 Engaging Youth in Tobacco Control Activities Deborah P. Brown, MS, CHES Board 3 Gender differences in adolescent tobacco use Irene E. Cramer, PhD, LICSW, Stephen Soldz, PhD, Xingjia Cui, MD, MPH Board 4 Health ...

4005.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM International Tobacco Control Poster Session Board 1 Media Advocacy:Innovative Methods of Global Tobacco Control Sean P David, MD, SM Board 2 Combined synthetic/regression estimation of youth smoking behaviors in Canada Anita Koushik, MSc, William Pickett, PhD, Taron Faelker, MSc, K. Stephen Brown, PhD Board 3 EFFECTS OF EDUCATION ON SMOKING ...

6000.0: Thursday, November 16, 2000: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation Moderator(s): Tom Colthurst 8:30 AM A case study of the successful effort to increase New York's cigarette excise tax Russell C. Sciandra, MA 8:48 AM A TWO YEAR EVALUATION OF FLORIDA S TOBACCO PILOT PROGRAM Edward J. Trapido, ScD, James Wise, MS, Richard Hopkins, MD, MPH, Ursula Bauer ...

4010.0: Tuesday, November 14, 2000: 8:30 AM-10:00 AM State and Local Tobacco Control Programs and Evaluation Poster Session Board 1 How California coalitions survived ten years of tobacco wars Elizabeth Emerson, MA Board 2 Tobacco control coalitions: Features that make a difference in achieving policy objectives Shoshanna Sofaer, DrPH, Erin Kenney, PhD, Kimberley Fox, MPA, Katherine Hempstead, ...

3077.0: Monday, November 13, 2000: 2:30 PM-4:00 PM Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable Presider(s): Julie Fishman Table 1 Arizona CHAMPS Peer Project for Tobacco Use Prevention Evaluation Results for 1999-2000 Howard J. Eng, DrPH, John Sciacca, PhD, Jim Mahrt, MA, Kathryn Dorsey, BS Table 2 Engaging Youth in Tobacco Control Activities Lynne Smith Table 3 Evaluating tobacco cessation efforts ...

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