October 27, 2014
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network continues to call on California politicans to stop taking and give back tobacco industry campaign contributions. This is an important activitiy that all the other health groups should join immediately.
Here is their latest press release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 27, 2014
Contact: Stephanie Winn McCorkle
Associate Director of Media Advocacy, Western Region
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network
Phone: 916 802-4033
Email: [email protected]
ACS CAN CALLS UPON THREE CANDIDATES
TO RETURN CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PHILIP MORRIS
SACRAMENTO - As part of its campaign to get tobacco money out of California politics, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) called upon three candidates to return contributions recently made by Philip Morris. ACS CAN has challenged all candidates for the state legislature and statewide office to refrain from accepting political contributions from tobacco companies. The recent contributions from tobacco giant Philip Morris went to curry favor with:
October 26, 2014
The American Industrial Hygiene Association just published a white paper, Electronic Cigarettes in the Indoor Environment, that contains an excellent review of the current state of the science on -cigarette emissions.
Here is the executive summary:
Executive Summary
October 24, 2014
Postdoctoral Fellowships in Tobacco Control Research
Academic Background Required: Doctorate/Equivalent Degree
The training program is a national treasure that offers a unique and comprehensive didactic and mentored research experience that considers the transdisciplinary nature of tobacco control in national and international health policy. The emphasis on science to policy research is relatively rare in tobacco research training and highly relevant, given the recent changes in tobacco control public health policies. The Program Director, Dr. Stanton Glantz, has a long and distinguished career conducting transdisciplinary research and mentoring on a wide variety of smoking-related topics and disease endpoints… The Program Co-Director, Pamela Ling, M.D., M.P.H., has been actively involved in the program since its inception … In addition, [there is] a large group of stellar faculty mentors. The environment is exceptional, including collaboration with the World Health Organization’s efforts on Tobacco Control and access to the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library; strong Institutional support is also evident.
--NIH Peer Review Summary Statement, 2010
October 23, 2014
California’s Tobacco Control Efforts Losing Steam
Reduced Spending Power of Anti-Tobacco Program, Resurgence of Tobacco Industry in State Politics, and Unregulated E-Cigarettes to Blame
California’s position as a leader in tobacco control is under threat, according to a new report from the UC San Francisco Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education. Once a highly successful program and international model, the state’s anti-tobacco efforts now appear to be waning due to the decreased spending power of the California Tobacco Control Program, a resurgence of the tobacco industry in state politics, and the emergence of new unregulated tobacco products.
“The combination of weak leadership at the state level, willingness of political leaders to accept tobacco industry money, and inflation eroding the spending power of the California Tobacco Control Program are compromising its effectiveness, which will lead, even in the short term, to more smoking,” said Stanton Glantz, PhD, UCSF professor of medicine and director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education.
The report will be published on Thursday, Oct. 23 in eScholarship, which provides open-access scholarly publishing services to the University of California.
October 22, 2014
Jennie Harris and colleagues at Washington University St. Louis recently published a paper, "Tweeting for and Against Public Health Policy: Response to the Chicago Department of Public Health's Electronic Cigarette Twitter Campaign," that did a quantitative analysis of the "Twitter Bomb" campaign directed against the the Chicago City Council when it was considering adding e-cigarettes to the city's clean indoor air law.
They found an organized campaign -- based outside Chicago (and outside Illinois) -- to generate oppostion to the proposed ordinance. Here is the summary of theor results from the abstract: