New study links maternal depression and child poverty
Thursday, September 02, 2010Evidence suggests that depression can interfere with parenting, potentially leading to poor child development—setbacks that are particularly devastating during infancy. Eleven percent of infants living in poverty have a mother suffering from severe depression. A new report examines the characteristics, access to services, and parenting approaches for infants living in poverty whose mothers are depressed. ...View Full Article
Webinar - American Lung Association study preview
Wednesday, September 8, 2010On September 8, 2010, at 12 noon EST, the American Lung Association is holding a webinar that will preview a study conducted at Penn State
entitled: Smoking Cessation: the Economic Benefits. ...View Full event
Free workshop: Public Health Project Management
Thursday, September 30, 2010The Center for Public Health Practice is offering a free training in Public Health Project Management. ...View Full event
YouTube used to push tobacco, study says
Monday, August 30, 2010Pro-tobacco videos have a significant presence on YouTube, a study published Thursday in the journal Tobacco Control found.
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Foundation and MTV hope campaign is ‘Dead On’ with youths
Monday, August 30, 2010An effort to discourage smoking among teenagers and young adults is seeking to take advantage of that lively interest in the undead. The American Legacy Foundation in Washington, which sponsors the anti-smoking “Truth” campaign, is joining forces with the MTV cable channel for an initiative called “The Real World: Zombieville.” ...View Full Article
Medicare expands coverage of tobacco cessation
Friday, August 27, 2010The Obama administration on Wednesday expanded Medicare to cover more seniors hoping to kick their tobacco habits. Under the new policy, Medicare will cover as many as two tobacco-cessation counseling tries each year, including as many as four individual sessions per attempt. ...View Full Article
Measure to block federal health reform on Colorado ballot
Thursday, August 26, 2010Measure to Block Federal Health Care Reform on Colorado Ballot. ...View Full Article
Worksite Wellness in Health Care Reform
Thursday, August 26, 2010Health care reform presents new opportunities for worksite wellness. ...View Full Article
CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report: Tobacco Use Among Middle and High School Students - United States, 2000-2009
Thursday, August 26, 2010To further decrease tobacco use and susceptibility to use among youth, restrictions on advertising, promotion, and availability of tobacco products to youth should be combined with broader tobacco-control strategies. To monitor trends in tobacco use among middle and high school students, CDC analyzed data from the National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS). ...View Full Update
Even Low Tobacco Smoke Exposure Is Risky
Monday, August 23, 2010Even low levels of tobacco smoke exposure pose a risk to lung health, triggering potentially hazardous genetic changes, according to a new study.
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'Step forward' in limiting smoking scenes in films
Friday, August 20, 2010The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report on Thursday showing that scenes of smoking in high-grossing films fell to 1,935 “incidents” last year, down 49 percent from a recent peak of 3,967 in 2005. The study defined an incident as the use or implied use of a tobacco product by an actor, with a new incident occurring each time a tobacco product went off-screen then came back, or a different actor was shown with tobacco.
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FDA mulling ban on menthol cigarettes
Thursday, August 19, 2010The tobacco industry has long targeted youth and minorities for menthol cigarette marketing, even manipulating menthol content in different brands in an effort to recruit new smokers among youth, according to the National Cancer Institute and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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Edgewater City Council continues Jefferson County Smoke-Free Leadership
Friday, August 13, 2010Edgewater, CO -- The City Council of Edgewater is the latest leader for strong smoke free laws in Jefferson County, Colorado. The Council voted July 8, 2010, on a 5 - 2 vote to make outdoor customer service areas smoke-free; expanding smoke-free zones to 20 feet from all doorways; making the city's parks and outdoor sporting events smoke-free; and, removing exemptions found in the State’s smoke-free law for indoor workplaces – tobacco retail stores, cigar bars, and small businesses. The ordinance will go into effect July 20, 2010.
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Ninth Annual Culture of Data Conference
Friday, October 8, 2010The Ninth Annual Culture of Data Conference, "Health Reform and Health Disparities: Where from here?" takes place on Oct. 8, 2010. ...View Full event
Save the Date: Ninth Annual Culture of Data Conference
Thursday, August 12, 2010Save the date for the Ninth Annual Culture of Data Conference, "Health Reform and Health Disparities: Where from here?" ...View Full Article
The claim: smoking relieves stress
Monday, August 09, 2010For millions of smokers, the calming effect of a cigarette can be reason enough to start up again. Studies have found, however, that in reality, lighting up has the opposite effect, causing long-term stress levels to rise, not fall. ...View Full Article
Survey: More favor restaurant smoking ban
Monday, August 09, 201059 percent of U.S. adults say smoking should be banned in restaurants, up 5 percentage points from 2007, a survey indicates. ...View Full Article
Risky combo: cigarettes and other tobacco forms
Friday, August 06, 2010Men and young adults are most likely to smoke cigarettes in combination with using tobacco in other forms, the CDC says.
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Real improvements in health require change in culture
Thursday, August 05, 2010Health and longevity are profoundly influenced by where and how Americans live, learn, work, and play. Recognizing this, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Commission to Build a Healthier America has identified concrete, feasible actions outside of medical care that constitute an urgent agenda for improving America’s health. These recommendations require action at all levels of society to promote development and health in childhood, good nutrition, and communities conducive to good health. ...View Full Article
New CDC report describes multi-product tobacco users
Thursday, August 05, 2010The use of cigarettes in combination with other forms of tobacco is linked with higher nicotine addiction, the inability to quit using tobacco and increases chances of tobacco-related health problems, such as stroke, heart disease and tobacco-related cancers, according to an anlysis of data from the 2008 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS).
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