By 2015, 6.4 million people per year will die from tobacco-related illnesses, claiming twice as many victims as AIDS, the World Health Organization says.
 

Massachusetts Cigarette Sales Penalties May Increase:
http://www.projo.com/massachusetts/somerset/content/projo_20060719_sosmok19.1764a70.html
(Requires registration)
 

July 31, 2006:  “Report Says Smoking Rising Fast Among Women”
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/summaries/2006/reports-says-smoking-rising.html
 

RI’s Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program Phase II has begun.

Phase II will encompass and expand upon the original comprehensive tobacco control initiative by focusing on curbing access to tobacco products, engaging community support to reduce the availability of tobacco products to youth, to reduce tobacco company promotions that negate the health effects of the cigarette excise tax, and to seek a voluntary reduction in advertising of tobacco products within 500 feet of schools and playgrounds. It will focus on mapping tobacco at the community level – its sale, advertising and promotions, and tobacco industry targeting of certain groups.

Welcome our new (and seasoned) tobacco control partners:

• Progreso Latino
• Woonsocket Task Force
• Urban League of Rhode Island
• Crossroads Rhode Island
• Pawtucket Substance Abuse Prevention Task Force
• International Institute of Rhode Island

We look forward to working closely with you during Phase II and beyond.

Sincerely,

OXFORD JOURNALS: “Using anti-tobacco industry messages to prevent smoking among high-risk adolescents”
http://her.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/21/3/325
 

National Institutes of Health STATE-OF-THE-SCIENCE CONFERENCE STATEMENT Tobacco Use: Prevention, Cessation and Control
http://consensus.nih.gov/2006/TobaccoStatementDraft061406.pdf

Comprehensive Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Programs Effectively Reduce Tobacco Use:
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0045.pdf

GET THE FACTS: http://www.no-smoke.org/getthefacts.php
 

The University of California, San Francisco Library has added a Multimedia Tobacco Documents Collection:
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/mm_about.html
 

Legal update newsletter from the Tobacco Control Legal Consortium (TCLC) which is a new national network supporting tobacco control policy change by giving advocates better access to legal expertise

• The Verdict Is In: Findings from United States v. Philip Morris
  http://www.tobaccolawcenter.org/dojlitigation.html

• View the October 2006 newsletter
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• View the July 2006 newsletter
• View the May/June 2006 newsletter
• View the February/March 2006 newsletter
   

National African American Tobacco Prevention Network (NAATPN)
 

National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention
 

National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty
 

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Research Center “You need to know the truth”: http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/
 

Talk to the Right People: Choosing Strategic Audiences
http://www.advocacy.org/enews/archive/06-05-Audiences.htm
 

Smokefree States Map
 

Please contact the Tobacco Control Staff if you need anything:

Lina Alba-Navarro (Secretary)

Seema Dixit

Donna Levesque

Kelly Doyle

Carol Hall-Walker (Media)

Betty Harvey (Program Manager)