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Friday January 21, 2005
In this edition:
1) CDC Launches
Cessation Resource Center
2) Jail Smoking Ban Good
3) Cancer Now Top Killer of Americans
Under 85
4) NNTPP – Case Studies
and Focus Group Summary Now Available
5) Upcoming
Events
1) CDC
Launches Cessation
Resource Center
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
Office on Smoking and Health has established a resource center on its web site
that provides access to tobacco cessation materials.
These user-tested materials provide information about such
topics as implementing health care system change, community initiatives,
business resources, reimbursement options, quitlines, and evaluation methods to
support cessation.
The website for the Cessation Resource Center is http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/CRC.htm
2) Jail
Smoking Ban Good
Wheeling (WV) News-Register
Sunday, January 16, 2005
Jails are inhabited by people who don't want to be there -
but have no choice in the matter. In that, they are not a "public
place" from which people can leave if they don't like the atmosphere -
including tobacco smoke in the air.
That's why new Belmont County Sheriff Fred Thompson's
decision to ban smoking in the county jail was appropriate. Beginning this
week, neither inmates nor jailers will be permitted to smoke at the jail.
Thompson worried that unless he imposed the ban, Belmont County might be hit by the same type of
lawsuit some other localities with jails have had to fight. Some inmates in
those jails have sued because they say their health has suffered from
second-hand smoke.
Clearly, Thompson didn't have much choice but to impose the
ban. As he pointed out, "We don't need a lawsuit."
But the ban also makes sense from a health standpoint,
because it safeguards inmates who, again, cannot simply walk out of the jail to
get away from tobacco smoke in the air. Thompson is to be
commended for making the decision.
3) Cancer Now Top Killer of Americans Under 85
The Associated Press
Jan. 19, 2005
For the first time, cancer has
surpassed heart disease as the top killer of Americans under 85, health
officials said Wednesday. The good news is that deaths from both are falling,
but improvement has been more dramatic for heart disease.
“It’s dropping fast
enough that another disease is eclipsing it,” said Dr. Walter Tsu,
president of the American Public Health Association.
The single biggest reason: fewer
smokers.
Many cancers are preventable
A third
of all cancers are related to smoking, and another third are related to
obesity, poor diets and lack of exercise — all factors that also
contribute to heart disease.
“We want to send the message:
Don’t smoke, eat right, exercise and maintain normal weight, and see your
doctor for normal checkups,” Eyre said.
Smoking among adults fell
dramatically between 1965 and 2000, from 42 percent to 22 percent. Federal
goals are to cut the rate to 12 percent by 2010.
For the full article please visit http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6844751/
4) NNTPP – Case Studies and
Focus Group Summary Now Available
The National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty
announces the release of two case studies written in collaboration with two of
our national Stakeholder organizations. Tobacco
Policy, Cessation, and Education in Correctional Facilities Case Study highlights
NNTPP’s collaboration with the National Commission on Correctional Health
Care and a joint survey conducted among correctional facilities across the United States to examine tobacco use policies and
cessation programming. Integrating
Tobacco Control into The Salvation Army’s
Substance Abuse Training Curriculum Case Study focuses on NNTPP’s
collaboration with The Salvation Army.
It describes our efforts to integrate nicotine addition treatment into
The Salvations Army’s alcohol and substance abuse treatment programs.
In addition, NNTPP also released a summary report of our
focus group data collected in collaboration with West Virginia University-Prevention Research Center titled Smoking Habits and
Prevention Strategies in Low Socio-economic Status Populations. The
objectives of the focus groups were to review the social and cultural nuances
that support/encourage smoking in low SES populations, identify communication
channels most effective in reaching this population with tobacco cessation/prevention
messages, and to tailor prevention messages to reach low SES adults.
Copies of the case studies and the focus group summary may
be obtained by calling the Health Education Council, toll-free at 1(888)
442-2836 or emailing nntpp@healthedcouncil.org
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5) Upcoming Events
19th National
Conference on Chronic Disease Prevention and Control
Health Disparities: Progress, Challenges, and Opportunities
March
1-3, 2005 – Atlanta, GA
Updates in Correctional Health Care
Presented by the National Commission on Correctional Health
Care
April 9-12, 2005 - Flamingo Hotel Las Vegas, NV (773) 880-1460
New England Regional Minority Health
Conference
April 10 & 11 and 12, 2005 - Portland, Maine
Information:
michellesurdoval@yahoo.com
National
Conference on Tobacco or Health
May
4-6, 2005 – Chicago, IL
American
Public Health Association Annual Meeting
Evidence-Based
Policy and Practice
November 5-9, 2005 - New Orleans, LA
Abstract
submission begins: December
17, 2004
Abstract submission
deadline: February 7-11,
2005
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