Ugly Is the New Look for Cigarette Packs

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Tina Rosenberg of The New York Times HERE When it was introduced in the late 1920s, Marlboro was a woman’s cigarette — “Mild as May,” said the ads. Ads showed glamorous and fashionable young women smoking. Marlboro left the market during the war. But in the 1950s, scientists began associating cigarettes with […]

LGBT community aims to trim its higher tobacco use

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Sammy Caiola of The Sacramento Bee HERE Link to LGBT HealthLink HERE   When Bill Gruenloh moved from Sacramento from St. Louis 10 years ago, he headed to the easiest place to meet people and make friends – the local gay bar. Then 24 and a smoker since his teens, he hoped […]

Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s Young Women’s Initiative

  LINK TO SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE LINK TO SOCIAL MEDIA IMAGE Living Beyond Breast Cancer’s Young Women’s Initiatitve is now accepting applications for our Young Advocate Program in Philadelphia from September 23-25, 2016.  The training will be held in conjunction with our 2016 LBBC Conference:  Individual Treatments, Shared Experiences. The program will provide the tools […]

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY: New Informatics Tools and Methods to Enhance U.S. Cancer Surveillance and Research

Funding Opportunity New Informatics Tools and Methods to Enhance U.S. Cancer Surveillance and Research http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-16-349.html   Goal:  To advance surveillance science by supporting the development of new and innovative tools/methods for more efficient, detailed, timely and accurate data collection by population-based central cancer registries in the U.S. Research Areas:    1)    Development, validation, evaluation of tools/methods […]

Native American Athletes Take Center Stage in Red Lake Nation Summer Camps

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Austin Monteith of Grand Forks Herald HERE RED LAKE — A number of Native American athletes and coaches from around the country have flocked to Red Lake Nation this summer. A series of sports camps are being held in conjunction with Oshkiimaajitahdah, a community organization in Redby also known as Tribal […]

NH rule protects residents from secondhand smoke

CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE from Healthy Monadnock New Hampshire Housing Finance Authority (NHHFA) recently ruled that all future units built using the state’s Low Income Housing Tax Credit will be required to be 100 percent smoke-free. New Hampshire is one of only five states in the U.S. to have this requirement. This new requirement […]

Most smokers not aware of chemicals they’re inhaling

CLICK HERE FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Emma Tiller of NH Voice Cigarette smoke contains as many as 4,800 chemicals and many of these chemicals are carcinogens, but a new study has revealed that a big majority of smokers don’t realize what they are inhaling. In the study, a team of researchers analyzed data related to […]

Colorectal cancer screening: Estimated future colonoscopy need and current volume and capacity.

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION HERE FROM PubMed.gov Colorectal cancer screening: Estimated future colonoscopy need and current volume and capacity. Joseph DA1, Meester RG2, Zauber AG3, Manninen DL4, Winges L4, Dong FB4, Peaker B5, van Ballegooijen M2. Author information 1Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Centers for Disease Control […]

U.S. healthcare facilities have capacity to meet colorectal cancer screening goals

ORIGINAL ARTICLE FROM CDC HERE US government agencies and their colorectal cancer prevention partners have set a goal that at least 80% of adults ages 50-75 will be screened for colorectal cancer.  A recently published study conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that the U.S. healthcare system has […]

Smokers May Try to Quit 30 Times Before it Sticks

FOR ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Kathryn Doyle of Reuters HERE Though conventional wisdom says it takes five to seven attempts for most smokers to quit, those estimates may be very low, a recent study suggests. Based on data for more than 1,200 adult smokers in Canada, the real average number of quit attempts before succeeding may […]
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