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National News about Tobacco

• Anti-smoking film competition winner: “You inform other young people and you learn a lot yourself” **NEW**
  
• How should times dictate smoking fight? Your Say Interactive **NEW**
  
• Oklahoma's Two Major Cities Lack Smokefree Protection
  
• Study by Mayo Clinic Shows Smokefree Workplaces Lead to Reduction in Cardiac Events **NEW**
  
• Media Release - Calls to Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Increase with CDC campaign launch **NEW**
  
• New Surgeon General's Report -- How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease **NEW**
  
• Won't Bar New Federal Tobacco Marketing Regs
  
• CDC Survey Finds Smoking Declines Have Stalled, Shows Elected Officials Must Step Up Fight Against Tobacco
  
• Institute of Medicine Secondhand Smoke Report (for more information, visit www.iom.edu)
  
• Tobacco Control Legal Consortium Legal Update (Summer 2009)
  
• FDA Extends Comment Period for Public Input on Implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Act (Dec. 28, 2009 deadline) 
  
• FDA Announces Ban on Flavored Cigarettes under Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act

Happenings Around the State

• Oklahoma Youth Smoking Rates Drop
  
• Oklahoma Tobacco Helpline Puts Muscle Behind New Year's Resolutions to Quit Smoking
  
• National Report Ranks Oklahoma 11th in Protecting Kids from Tobacco
  
• Tobacco-Free Oklahoma Week Rallies Support for a Healthier Oklahoma (Word format)
  
• CDC Releases Prevalence Information and State Specific Prevalence
  
• Save the date for the 3rd Annual "Preparing for the 7th Generation" Conference (April 7-9, 2010, in Oklahoma City)
  
• Groups Want To Ban Smoking in All Oklahoma Restaurants, Bars
  
• OSDH Issues Warning on Exposure to Secondhand Tobacco Smoke
  
• 2009 Turning Point and Oklahoma Fit Kids Conference (Dec. 3 at University of Central Oklahoma)
  
• Letter to the editor: Oklahoma Gazette Oct. 14
  
•  Tobacco Stops With Me Secondhand Smoke Newspaper Insert January 2009 ( PDF - 13 mg)

Oklahoma State Department of Health

• 2009 Certified Healthy Business Application Now Online
  
• 2009 Tobacco Control Leadership Institute: Empowering Local Communities
  
• Oklahoma Restaurants Not Adversely Impacted by Smoking Laws (Sept. 23, 2008)