Tobacco Control Resources

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Contents 1 Publications 2 Links 2.1 FDA 2.2 Anti-smoking 2.3 Health 2.4 Retailers 2.5 Products 2.6 Packaging 2.7 Manufacturers 2.7.1 Tobacco Growers 2.8 Articles 3 Lawsuits

Publications

• The National Survey On Drug Use and Health Use of Menthol Cigarettes
  
• Debunking the claim that abstinence is usually healthier for smokers than switching to a low-risk alternative, and other observations about ant-tobacco-harm-reduction arguments
  
• Surveillanceindicators for potential reduced exposure products(PREPs):developing survey items to measure awareness
  
• Guidance for Industry and FDA Staff General Questions and Answers on the Ban of Cigarettes that Contain Certain Characterizing Flavors
  
• Letter to Industry on Cigarettes Containing Certain Characterizing Flavors
  
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Subject: Non-Smoking Policies in Public Housing
  
• Systematic review of the relation between smokeless tobacco and cancer in Europe and North America
  
• Tobacco, Public Health, and the FDA
  
• College Students' exposure to secondhand smoke
  
• Survey of smokers’ reasons for not switching to safer sources of nicotine and their willingness to do so in the future
  

Links

FDA

• FDA Seeks Cigar Regulation
  
• FDA Panel Examines Menthol Cigarettes
  
• FDA Completes Tobacco Committee Membership
  
• Commonwealth Brands in ‘Disbelief’ Over FDA Regs
  
• FDA Issues New Tobacco Retailing Rule
  
• FDA Strengthens regulations to curb smoking by children
  
• FDA Tobacco Panel Includes Members with Quit Smoking Ties
  
• FDA probes candy-like tobacco products
  
• Preparing For Drastic Tobacco Regulations
  
• What’s in a cigarette? FDA to study ingredients
  
• FDA to Study Cigarette Ingredients
  
• The New FDA Guidance on the Listing of Ingredients in Tobacco Products
  
• FDA Alerts Industry of Flavored Cigarette Deadline
  
• FDA Clarifies Flavored Cigarette Ban
  
• FDA’s Flavored Cigarette Ban Kicks In
  
• Tobacco czar maps new agency’s path
  
• FDA’s Flavor Warning
  
• Wellstone in Conference Call with FDA
  
• FDA Gets an Earful
  
• FDA Deflects Challenge
  
• Tobacco Firms Begin Paying for FDA Regulation
  
• FDA starts collecting tobacco fees
  
• Tobacco Takes on FDA
  
• FDA Moves Forward on Tobacco
  
• FDA Debuts Center for Tobacco Products
  
• FDA Names Tobacco Chief
  
• FDA To Create New Center for Tobacco Products
  
• Perrigo Receives FDA Approval to Market Cherry and Cinnamon Flavored Nicotine Lozenges
  
• FDA Regulation Will Broadly Affect Big Tobacco
  
• S&P on FDA
  
• FDA & Tobacco Regulation
  
• FDA Seeks Public Input on Tobacco Regulation
  
• FDA regulation could benefit Big Tobacco, experts say
  

Anti-smoking

• Lawrence Garfinkel Statistician linked smoking to cancer
  
• Dr. Howard A. Engle Pediatrician led anti-tobacco lawsuit
  
• In Depth: How Much You’ll Save By Quitting Smoking
  
• What You’ll Save by Quitting Smoking
  
• Grassroots Activist Congratulate Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for Ending Tobacco Sponsorship
  
• The Truth About American Legacy
  
• Ontario campaign for action on tobacco
  
• National Stop Smoking Campaign Continues with Information, Resource for Smokers
  
• Doctor presses the case against tobacco scholarships
  
• Destroyed documents: uncovering the science that Imperial Tobacco Canada sought to conceal
  
• CigarettesPedia.com
  
• Dr. Footsie’s 20 Tips Health Education Programs – Stop Tobacco Kit
  

Health

• Smokeless Tobacco Risks ‘Overblown’?
  
• Diabetes Risks Rises Temporarily for Smokers Who Quit
  
• Giving up smoking ‘raises diabetes risk’
  
• Premier workers who smoke face $500+ health care surcharge
  
• Smoking vaccine takes new approach
  
• Study Raises Concerns About Outdoor Second-Hand Smoke
  
• Massachusetts’ ‘Model’ Tobacco Cessation Benefit Spurs Unprecedented Drop in Smoking Rates, Heart Attacks, Asthma, and Birth Complications
  
• Address smoking, drinking as one health risk
  
• Tobacco smoke linked with respiratory diseases
  
• Trial drug may help smokers kick butts
  
• Cancer institute studies smokeless tobacco
  

Retailers

• More Exhibitors Added to NATO Show Lineup
  
• Valero Inks Deals with 39 AGs
  
• NATO Trade Show Draws More Support
  
• More Exhibitors Line up for NATO Trade Show
  
• NATO Announces Major Tobacco Companies Line Up for 2011 Trade Show
  
• NATO Show Is a Go
• 7-Eleven Joins NATO
  
• Smoking Out Opportunities at Tobacco Plus Expo
  
• Tobacco Legislative Roundup
  
• NATO Urges Exemption in Self-service Tobacco Display Ban
  
• Survey: Majority of retailers comply with tobacco age law
  
• NYACS opposes Retail Warning Signs for Tobacco
  
• Industry Besieged
  
• Tobacco Cos. Reassure Retailers Ahead of FDA Flavor Ban
  
• Race to Extinction
  
• Sign Language
  
• At ’09 Halfway Point, Candy, Snacks and OTP Drive C-store Sales
  

Products

• Flavored Tobacco Pellets Are Denounced as a Lure to Young Users
  
• R.J. Reynolds’ Orb---smokeless tobacco with a flavorful punch—sets off congressional firestorm
  
• Burned on Flavor
  
• A Different Camel Is Back in the Glossies
  
• Today’s smokeless tobacco is just as addictive and marketed to the young
  
• Hazard in plain sight? ‘Crossover products’ may help hook kids on smoking, drugs
  
• To the FDA, This Indonesian Smoke is Close but No Cigar
  
• Nicotine gum may help smokers quit gradually
  
• A safer cigarette? Tobacco companies testing alternatives
  

Packaging

• New rules, new smoke signals
  
• Taste the Rainbow: Cigarette Makers’ Colorful Answer to FDA Packaging Regs
  

Manufacturers

• Reynolds American Focuses on OTP
  
• CSNews Exclusive: OTP Opportunities Abound
  
• Swedish Match Separates from Snus Pack
  
• Swedish Match Launches General Snus Campaign
  
• Altria’s MST Strategy
  
• Star Scientific Files Application with FDA for Ariva-BDL
  
• Lorillard CEO Discusses FDA Menthol Study
  
• National Tobacco Adds Two
  
• RJR Wins Appeal
  
• Rivals pursue same goal: Reynolds American, Philip Morris prod FDA
  
• Tobacco’s Optimistic Glow
  
• Importer tries to get around clove smoke ban
  
• Nat Sherman Issues Letter on Flavors
  
• Special Tobacco Analysis, Pt 2 Big Tobacco Shifts Strategies
  
• Special Tobacco Analysis, Pt. 1 Big Tobacco Fights for Share…
  
• Kretek International Djarum Clove Cigars Still for Sale
  
• House Committee Investigates Kretek, Cheyenne Intl.
  
• Tobacco Cos. Win Inches with Dollars
  

Tobacco Growers

• No PM tobacco contracts for Georgia, Florida
  
• Amid industry uncertainties some tobacco farms grow
  
• Canadian bill worries Kentucky tobacco growers
  

Articles

• New Bold Warnings on Tobacco Ads
  
• Premium’s Growing Hold
  
• NATO Hones Strategy
  
• On Menthol & Tax Evasion
  
• ‘A Long, Storied History’
  
• Embracing the Hispanic Opportunity
  
• Tobacco Category in Flux
  
• Renewed Optimism for Smokeless Tobacco
  
• Menthol May Be Nicotine’s Partner in Addiction
  
• Counterfeit Cigarette Coupons Found in Pa.
  
• What lurks inside those cigarettes?
  
• Smokers need not apply for a job
  
• Senecas confront tobacco roadblock
  
• ‘Shaming’ smokers makes it harder to quit
  
• Senecas fight tobacco sales bill
  
• China Slims
  
• Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco
  
• FDA Tobacco Regulations: A Rocky Start
  
• Preparing for Drastic Tobacco Regulations
  
• Massachusetts Antismoking Plan Gets Attention
  
• High-Sensation Seeking Youth Drawn to Sweet-Tasting Cigarettes, Study Finds
  
• The doubt industry
  
• WHO: Smoking kills 5 million every year
  
• Smoking continues gradual decline among U.S. teens, smokeless tobacco threatens a comeback
  
• Smoking rates rise slightly
  
• A Broken Promise to Our Children The 1998 State Tobacco Settlement 11 Years Later
  
• Menthol Cigarettes More Addictive to U.S Minorities
  
• Report: States cut funding for tobacco prevention
  
• ‘Higher risk’ of lung cancer from smoking first thing
  
• Obesity Epidemic Cancels Out Anti- Smoking Gains
  
• Advertising Agencies Fight Tobacco Act
  
• Filtering Through Tobacco Regulations
  
• When cigarette warnings backfire
  
• Tobacco smoke exposure before heart transplantation may increase the risk of transplant failure
  
• Cigarette-Smoking Rate Rises in U.S.
  
• State’s smoking rate still high
  
• Smoke ‘Em If You Make ‘Em
  
• Teens and tobacco don’t mix in Illinois
  
• DIY cigarettes? Some smokers start growing tobacco
  
• Smoking Cessation Harder for Women than Men
  
• Stressed, broke smokers struggle with habit
  
• Stress, Anxiety May Keep Women Smoking
  
• Officials worry illegal tobacco sales too high
  
• ‘Into theArms of the Unregulated’
  
• Row breaks out over safety of e-cigarettes
  
• Philip Morris sees decline in health awards
  
• Big Tobacco retains its clout
  
• Smokin’ Aces
  
• Blazing a New Tobacco Road
  
• FDA Could Have Power to Restrict Tobacco Ads
  
• Lost in the Weed
  
• Tobacco Challenges and Opportunities Abound
  
• The State of Tobacco Control 2008

Lawsuits

• Altria Tobacco Cos. Lose Fight on N.Y. Flavor Ban
  
• PM USA Takes Case to Supreme Court
  
• Smoker Extinguishes Suit
  
• USSTC Fights New York City Flavored Tobacco Ban
  
• Kretek Drops Lawsuit Against FDA
  
• Judge Throws Out Tombstone Ads for Tobacco
  
• Tobacco Trials
  
• Kretek Drops Cigar Legal Action
  
• Ban on Color and Graphics in Tobacco Ads Thrown Out
  
• WLF files brief in support of tobacco companies
  
• Broward Jury Awards Former Mayor’s $300 Million in Fraud Case Against Tobacco Giant Philip Morris USA
  
• Jury Awards Punitive Damages to Smoker’s Daughter
  
• Judge Denies RJR Motion for Injunction
  
• Judge Denies RJR’s ‘Free Speech’ Gambit
  
• FDA tobacco chief sees no lawsuit impact
  
• Indonesia Seeks to Clear the Air Over US Kretek Ban
  
• State high court ponders award in cigarette lawsuit
  
• Cancer-Free Smokers Can Sue Philip Morris, Court Says
  
• Rolling Papers vs. Court Documents
  
• FDA Sued Again on Flavored Cigarettes
  
• Cigarette Companies Pursue Supreme Court Appeal
  
• Sometimes a Cigar Is Just a Cigar
  
• Kretek Sues FDA Over Flavor Ban
  
• Jury Awards $13.8 Million in Damages to Smoker’s Daughter
  
• Smoker, tobacco both winners in early Engle cases
  
• Smoker who lost job loses in court
  
• Provost Umphrey attorneys file class action in Beaumont over light cigarettes
  
• Kansas City-area residents sue Philip Morris USA
  
• Longtime dealer sues Caesars over second-hand smoke