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- Global Innovation – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 20, 2014)
- Local Innovation & #MCubed – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 13, 2014)
- Open Access Journal on Clinical Diabetes and Endocrinology
- National Medical Librarians Month 2014
- Suicide Prevention & Trauma on Social Media – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of October 6, 2014)
- Radiation Oncology Journal Club (#RadOnc) – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 29, 2014)
- From the National Library of Medicine: Roosevelt at NIH
- Patients on the Right TEDMED Questions – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 22, 2014)
- TEDMED on Patient Engagement – Hashtags of the Week (HOTW): (Week of September 15, 2014)
Tag Archives: tobacco
E-cigarette poisonings & more in the new edition of Public Health Law News
From the CDC’s Office for State, Tribal, Local, & Territorial Support: The new edition of Public Health Law News reprints an article from USA Today on the rise in reports of poisonings in children by e-cigarettes. Other stories include reports … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, environmental health, health disparities, health policy, tobacco
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New tobacco rules in Europe
From the New York Times: Health warnings should cover 75 percent of cigarette packs but governments should also have leeway to require plain packaging, the European Commission said Wednesday. The commission’s proposal would also ban cigarettes containing large quantities of … Continue reading
Text messages help smokers kick the habit
From NPR’s Shots blog: Some good news about texting: A review of studies published by the Cochrane Collaboration finds that smokers trying to quit the habit are helped in a big way by supportive messages sent via text. We all … Continue reading
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Tagged consumer health, health behavior, health communication, tobacco
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New edition of health Communication Digest available
Seth Noar introduces an Audience-Channel-Message-Evaluation (ACME) framework for health communication campaigns. Three studies highlight the negative impact of unhealthy mass media messages. Smoking is the focus of all three studies. Glantz et al. observe a substantial increase in onscreen smoking in youth-rated movies. Shandel … Continue reading
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Tagged CDC, communication, social networking, tobacco
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Tobacco: Uphill battle for antismoking campaigns in poor and middle-income countries
From the New York Times: Despite expensive antismoking campaigns, 41 percent of men in poor and middle-income countries still smoke and more young women are starting to, according to a major new survey of global tobacco use. The survey, based … Continue reading
For teenage smokers, removing the allure of the pack
From “Fixes” at the New York Times: Remember teenage smoking? It’s been edged out by teenage obesity as the health concern of the moment. States are cutting programsto prevent the former while establishing programs to combat the latter. We shouldn’t … Continue reading
Tobacco prevention & control strategies in Washington state
From the CDC’s Prevention Research Centers: Researchers from the University of Washington PRC and their partners at health departments in Washington State and Oregon assessed health care costs and smoking rates associated with three tobacco-control strategies for the state of … Continue reading
Making the next generation tobacco free
A new report, Preventing Tobacco Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General, has just been released. Read the full report here, the Executive Summary here, or visit this web site for more information.
Live twitter chat on tobacco 21 March with the CDC
At 1 pm ET on 21 March, the CDC’s Director, Dr. Tom Frieden, hosts a live twitter chat on tobacco. Follow the conversation by using hashtag #CDCChat. Follow Dr. Frieden by going to his Twitter page: https://twitter.com/#!/DrFriedenCDC.
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