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No smoking or vaping at California beaches or parks under this bill

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Patrick McGreevy with Los Angeles Times Smoking would be banned at California parks and beaches as a health and wildfire risk under legislation approved Tuesday by the state Senate. Sen. Marty Block (D-San Diego) introduced SB 1333, which would make smoking and disposing of tobacco waste an infraction subject to a […]

Eugene’s parks go smoke-free on June 1, but city will be soft on enforcement for three months

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from The Register-Guard Eugene’s city-owned parks and natural areas will go smoke-free starting Wednesday. But violators will receive the white-glove treatment for the first three months of the smoking ban. June 1 kicks off the three-month “education period” before officials begin enforcing the smoking ban with citations. The education effort will include […]

U.S. E-cigarette use stalls as health concerns grow: Reuters/Ipsos poll

ORIGINAL ARTICLE by Jilian Mincer of Reuters HERE Use of electronic cigarettes and other vaping devices has stalled in the United States as more Americans question their safety, according to a new online Reuters/Ipsos poll. About 10 percent of the 9,766 adults surveyed between April 19 and May 16 use the devices, the same percentage […]

FDA Deeming Requirements – New Resources Available

FDA Announcement Dear Tribal Stakeholders, The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing a final rule entitled, “Deeming Tobacco Products To Be Subject to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, as amended by the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act; Restrictions on the Sale and Distribution of Tobacco Products and Required Warning […]

Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond: A Virtual Clinic

https://www.smokingcessationandpregnancy.org/ “Smoking Cessation for Pregnancy and Beyond: A Virtual Clinic” is an updated online training, based on the “Virtual Practicum” model. The training is intended for health care professionals who will be assisting their female patients in quitting smoking, in particular, patients who are pregnant or in their child-bearing years. Health care professionals include physicians, […]

Local youth host Earth Day cigarette butt pickup event

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from Brighton-Pittsford Post In honor of Earth Day, local Reality Check groups at Pittsford High School and Community Place of Greater Rochester recently held a cigarette butt pickup event at Pittsford Plaza, 3349 Monroe Ave., Rochester. Reality Check members wore hazardous material suits while collecting bags of cigarette butts to put on […]

Archived Webinar: Basic Tenets of Risk Communication for Public Health Professionals

CLICK HERE FOR ARCHIVED WEBINAR Course Title: Basic Tenets of Risk Communication for Public Health Professionals Course Duration: 43 minutes Course Description: The goal of risk communication is to influence risk perception sufficiently enough to motivate the audience to protective action. This course details the components of communicating risk effectively, including targeting audiences and developing […]

Judge clears way for San Francisco’s soda pop warnings

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE by Nathan Bomey of USA Today Soda pop manufacturers will be forced to include warnings about the potential dangers of their products on certain advertisements in San Francisco after a federal judge declined to halt a new law. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen refused Wednesday to block the measure from taking effect […]

Oklahoma considering $1.50 per pack increase

ORIGINAL ARTICLE HERE from American Heart Association A plan to hike the tax on cigarettes in Oklahoma by $1.50 per pack to help stave off deep cuts to the state’s health care system passed its first major hurdle in the Legislature on Monday as lawmakers raced to close a $1.3 billion hole in the state […]

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