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Opinion: Smoke-Free Foster Care is Common Sense

April 12, 2012 Representative Tina Liebling from Minnesota is introducing a bill in the legislature to prohibit smoking in foster care homes, stating, “It’s time for the state to act in the best interest of children in foster care and protect them from the known cancer-causing poisons and toxins in second-hand smoke.” Read More.

Could Anti-Smoking Hit the Jackpot Outside Atlantic City Casinos?

April 12, 2012 New Jersey prohibits indoor smoking in nearly all workplaces and buildings open to the public like restaurants, stores, and bars—with one huge exception, the casinos in Atlantic City. Read More.

Legacy and Lung Cancer Alliance Release of New Study: Lung Cancer Screening is Cost Effective

April 11, 2012 This analysis was commissioned by Legacy and Lung Cancer Alliance shortly after the National Cancer Institute announced the results of the National Lung Screening Trial (NLST) which proved that low dose CT screening could reduce lung cancer deaths by at least 20% in a high risk population of 55-74 year old current and former smokers. Read More.

Can Mindfulness Help You Quit Smoking?

April 11, 2012 Nicotine dependence is a tough addiction to beat. About half of current U.S. smokers actually gave up cigarettes for more than a day within the past year, but then relapsed. Read More.

Federal Court to Weigh Graphic Cigarette Labels

April 10, 2012 The question of how far the government can go in forcing business—in this case cigarette makers—to warn consumers about its product is before a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C on Tuesday. Read More.

Could Menthol Cigarettes Pose Even Higher Stroke Risk?

April 10, 2012 Menthol cigarettes may pose an even greater risk for stroke than other types of cigarettes, especially for women and non-black smokers, says a new, large study. Read More.

Blumenthal Announces Historic Steps In Fight Against Big Tobacco, Calls For More To Be Done

April 9, 2012 On Major League Baseball’s opening day, U.S. Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) announced details of an historic rule restricting the use of smokeless tobacco by players, managers, and coaches on and off the field. Read More.

Dutch Anti-Smoking Campaign Uses Cigarettes As Art

April 9, 2012 An innovative anti-smoking campaign from Iris Amsterdam and Stivoro, the Dutch tobacco-control agency, uses cigarettes as art to ask: What are you giving up to smoke? Read More.

WTO Ruling Is Blow to U.S. Anti-Smoking Effort

April 6, 2012 In a blow to the Obama administration’s efforts to prevent youth from smoking, a World Trade Organization appeals panel Wednesday upheld an earlier decision that a U.S. ban on clove cigarettes discriminates against Indonesia. Read More.

Big Tobacco Goes All in Against Prop 29

April 6, 2012 If there was any uncertainty whether Big Tobacco—the nation’s leading makers of cigarettes—would let this June’s statewide campaign for a tax hike slip by without an all out war… the question was answered quite definitively late Thursday. Read More.

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