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YouTube Video Contest to Support Smokefree Women. Deadline June 4, 2010

The National Cancer Institute's Smokefree Women team is launching  "Celebrating Smokefree Voices," a YouTube video contest, to capture the quitting experiences and reasons for quitting smoking among women and friends/families across the U.S. Tell them why being smokefree is important to you! Learn more here: http://women.smokefree.gov/videocontest.aspx

There are two categories for video submissions:

    1.   Why I Am a Smokefree Woman: Create a video that tells others why you stay smokefree. What are your reasons and motivations? What does it mean to you to be a smokefree woman?

     2.   Why I Want YOU to be Smokefree:  Is there a woman in your life that you care about who smokes? Create a video and let them know why you want them to enjoy a smokefree life and the freedom from cigarettes.

There will be three winners in each category with prizes up to $2,000.

All video entries must be submitted by June 4, 2010

Kelly Clarkson ends sponsorship with Indonesian tobacco company (4/22/10)

Television and billboard ads in Bogor, Indonesia for Kelly Clarkson's upcoming April 29th concert feature the American Idol singer promoting L.A. Lights, a popular brand of cigarettes in the country.  The ad has sparked public debate from both anti-tobacco forces as well as her fans. Matt Myers, the president of Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids in the U.S. publicly spoke out against the ads, claiming that they are blatantly geared toward children, and saying that Clarkson would be helping the tobacco company market to kids if she went ahead with the concert. As of April 22, 2010, Kelly Clarkson has officially ended her sponsorship deal with L.A. Lights, stating that she is "in no way an advocate or an ambassador for youth smoking."

For more information and to view the ad click here.

American Legacy Foundation cuts youth advocacy funding.

In response to the financial downturn and to maximize impact of limited funds, Legacy has shifted its efforts to focus mostly on population-based strategies and suspended its competitive grant-making programs. Legacy will no longer solicit or accept competitive funding requests and existing grants will be phased out through 2012. Read more here.

Five Tips to Help A Stressed-Out President or Anyone Else Quit Smoking (3/3/10)

Article briefly highlight's President Obama's continued struggles with smoking cessation and offers 5 tips for people under stress to quit smoking which include dealing with stress, setting a quit date, and rewarding yourself each day you go without smoking. Read more here.

Promising New Smoking Cessation Therapy (3/1/10)

Duke University Medical Center Researchers have developed an innovative technology for smoking cessation therapy that they claim is more effective in delivering nicotine to the blood stream and lungs which may cut down cravings and provide an immediate relief to withdrawal symptoms. The product, which is an updated version of the nicotine vapor inhalers currently marketed, should be commercially available within three to five years. Read more here.

Lung Association & Heart Association budget cuts (2/28/10)

Due to budget cuts, the local American Lung Association, which as of 2007 serves Maryland, Virginia and North Carolina, is cutting jobs, staffing and some programming to better carry out their and serve the people with less resources. The association is responsible for such things as smoke free restaurants and dining facilities. Read more here.

WHO Director-General Calls For Greater Efforts To Reduce Tobacco Use (2/2/10)

The WHO Director, General Margaret Chan, called for government officials worldwide to increase efforts to protect their population from the harmful effects of tobacco. She reports that tobacco use is actually increasing in developing countries, marketing girls and women. Read more here.

Smoking Increases Risk of Blindness in Old Age (1/10/10)

News findings suggests that smoking increases a person's risk of developing Age -Related Muscular Degeneration (AMD), which is the leading cause of blindness in Americans that are 65 and older. They say the findings suggest that it is never too late to quick smoking. Read more here. 

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Recommended Readings

Christakis, N.A. & Fowler, J.H. (2008). The collective dynamics of smoking in a large social network. New England Journal of Medicine, 358, 2249-2258.

Dale, L.C. et al (2007). Bupropion SR for the treatment of smokeless tobacco use. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 90, 56-63.

Eissenberg, T., Ward, K. D., Smith-Simone, S., & Maziak, W. (2008). Waterpipe tobacco smoking on a U.S. college campus: Prevalence and correlates. Journal of Adolescent Health, 42, 526-529. 

Taurus, J.A. (2004). Public policy and smoking cessation among young adults in the United States. Health Policy, 68, 321-332.  

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