What's New at RI Tobacco Control Network
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November 18-23, 1999
11/22/99 Press release for National Cancer Institute's 430-page report on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (including instructions on how to order the full report).
On-line version of revised/updated ACS SmokeFree Dining Guide
September 23-24, 1999
More restaurants added to SmokeFree Dining Guide
More factsheets and links added:
"Bidi Use Among Urban Youth -- Massachusetts, March-April 1999" (Link to article in Sept. 17, 1999 MMWR , on CDC website- http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4836a2.htm)
Facts on Youth Smoking, Health, and Performance (CDC factsheet - 1994)
Health Effects of Smoking Among Young People (CDC factsheet - Aug. 1996)
Parents—Help Keep Your Kids Tobacco-Free (CDC factsheet)
September 11-14, 1999
More restaurants, especially Providence East Side and Jamestown, added to SmokeFree Dining Guide.
More links and factsheets added:
commercial health website by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop http://www.drkoop.com
Gene Borio's Tobacco BBS website, with an amazing range of information and links to resources, including a detailed history/timeline of tobacco from 1492 on. Check it out! (assorted tidbits from the history will appear as a regular feature in the SmokeFree Times newsletter) http://www.tobacco.org
National statistics on Smoking; Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD); Lung Cancer (a variety of documents and graphs in .PDF format - there's a link to download Adobe Acrobat Reader if you don't have it). (link to American Lung Assn. website http://www.lungusa.org/data/index2.html)
Healthy Schools, Healthy Kids (link to website - RI Dept. of Health & Dept. of Educ.)
"Quitting Smoking" (ALA factsheet - 1998)
"Secondhand Smoke and Children" (ALA factsheet - 4/99)
"Teenage Tobacco Use" (July 1999 update of ALA factsheet)
Link to image comparison of healthy lung vs. lung with emphysema
"International Consultation on Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) and Child Health" Table of Contents, Executive Summary, and Introduction, plus link to full report (WHO report - 1/99)
World Bank report on "Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control" (Click here to read summary, and for link to full report on WHO website)
July 30-31, 1999
More restaurants added to SmokeFree Dining Guide
New link to RI School Tobacco Policies (on DOH/Project ASSIST website)
List of RI Municipal Ordinances related to tobacco has been repaired
June 26-28, 1999
Major update of RI Smokefree Dining Guide [Click here to go there]
Note--Wright's Chicken Farm Restaurant going smokefree on July 1 !!
June 12, 1999
IRS allows some medical deductions for quit smoking programs/medications (Read Boston Globe article - 6/11/99)
New link to CyberIsle website--prevention website for youth [go to links page]
May 28, 1999
Added on Factsheet page:
WHO's "Framework Convention for Tobacco Control--A Treaty for Public Health--Summary" (SCARCNET Action Alert - 5/28/99)
"Health Department Lauds Study Showing Smoke-Free Restaurants Good for Tourism" (link to RI DOH website - Press Release - 5/25/99)
May 21, 1999
Added new link to Massachusetts Dept. of Health's new website "Get Outraged" --express outrage over tobacco industry tactics and the 3,000 U.S children who start smoking every day. http://www.getoutraged.com
May 10, 1999
The reference page has expanded so much that it is now in two separate parts--one page for factsheets and articles, and another page for the links to other tobacco-related websites. Check it out!
The SmokeFree Times newsletter is now on-line. Read the May '99 issue.
