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Healthcare
organizations want the loopholes in Bill C-32 closed
Legislative summary of
the federal government’s Bill C-32
http://www.parl.gc.ca/About/Parliament/LegislativeSummaries/Bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c32&Parl=40&Ses=2&source=library_prb
Press conference led by Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada and the Canadian
Dental Association
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftlIQrktjQ
Dysfonction érectile
Stan Shatenstein
on advocacy and the banality of death
GLOBALink Medical Journal Update
http://www.globalink.org/
American Cancer Society’s 2012 Luther L. Terry award winners
http://www.cancer.org/AboutUs/HonoringPeopleWhoAreMakingADifference/LutherTerryAwards/LutherTerryRecipients/lta_winners_2012
Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing on plain packaging
http://www.yourhealth.gov.au/internet/yourhealth/publishing.nsf/Content/plainpack-tobacco#.T4R4nRHXFqU
Singapore hosts
the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health
WCTOH website
http://wctoh2012.org/
Dr. Margaret Chan, Director-General of the World Health Organization
http://www.who.int/dg/chan/en/index.html
Prabhat Jha wins
Luther Terry award for outstanding research
More information on Prabhat Jha:
http://www.who.int/bulletin/volumes/88/3/10-040310/en/index.html
http://www.phs.utoronto.ca/faculty_template_new.asp?GetFile=JPrabhat
American Cancer Society’s 2012 Luther L. Terry award winners
http://www.cancer.org/AboutUs/HonoringPeopleWhoAreMakingADifference/LutherTerryAwards/LutherTerryRecipients/lta_winners_2012
Health groups
forced to cut jobs while waiting for new federal strategy
Health Canada’s Federal Tobacco Control Strategy
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/about-apropos/role/federal/strateg-eng.php
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/consult/_2011/foward-avenir/index-eng.php
The World Health Organization’s Framework Convention of Tobacco Control
http://www.who.int/fctc/en/
The art of
quitting: Ottawa Conference tackles low abstinence rates
University of Ottawa Heart Institute: birthplace of the Ottawa Model for Smoking
Cessation
http://ottawamodel.ca/en_main.php
2012 CTUMS report:
Tobacco Use in Canada
http://www.tobaccoreport.ca/2012/index.cfm
CAN-ADAPPT’s
national guidelines for smoking cessation
http://www.can-adaptt.net/English/Guideline/Introduction.aspx
National
Non-Smoking Week highlights how hard quitting can be
Details of the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control’s 2012 National
Non-Smoking Week
http://nnsw.ca/nnsw-2012
The Canadian Cancer Society’s “Break It Off” campaign
http://www.cancer.ca/Manitoba/Support%20Services/Break%20It%20Off.aspx?sc_lang=en
Tobacco control and environmental advocates share the same skeptics
The Traveling
Salesmen of Climate Skepticism
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,721846,00.html
Merchants of Doubt, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Bloomsbury Press, New York, 2010
The verdict is in
on climate change
http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jan/22/opinion/la-oe-oreskes-judging-climate-change-20120122
Climate sceptics
are recycled critics of controls on tobacco and acid rain
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/cif-green/2010/feb/19/climate-change-sceptics-science
$284 million up in smoke
Auditor General's fall report
http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_oag_201111_03_e_35935.html
Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada article that raised the alarm
www.smoke-free.ca/pdf_1/Tobacco%20is%20still%20being%20grown%20in%20Ontario.pdf
Tobacco training course without the exam pressure makes learning fun
Access to OTRU's
training modules
http://tobaccocourse.otru.org/
OTRU's general website
http://www.otru.org/
Review of new
studies by the Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
Current OTRU selection of journal articles and reports on tobacco topics
http://www.otru.org/current_abstracts.html
Briefs
Outdoor smoking bans
Proposed stricter
smoking bylaw moves ahead
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/story/2012/02/07/ottawa-smoking-bylaw-board-of-health.html
Côte-St-Luc passes
anti-smoking bylaw
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/story/2012/02/13/anti-smoking-cote-st-luc.html
Cigarettes Are Safe
as Long as You Just Invest: Riskless Return
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-01/cigarettes-are-safe-as-long-as-you-just-invest-in-them-riskless-return.html
Legal trouble in Alberta
The Alberta Gaming and Liquor Board Commission statement on seizing
contraband
http://www.aglc.ca/pdf/news/IB_ContrabandTobacco20110106.pdf
Details of the legal issues at stake
http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Case+decide+First+Nations+right+move+cigarettes+between+reserves/5957522/story.html
Golden Holocaust book review
University of California Press – Golden Holocaust: Origins of the
Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520270169
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/
Robert N. Proctor speaks about the tobacco industry’s “secret documents”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_ww4fg_oEE&feature=related
Tobacco stocks a safe investment?
Questor share tip:
Imperial Tobaccco is cash generating machine
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/questor/9057495/Questor-share-tip-Imperial-Tobaccco-is-cash-generating-machine.html
Less smoking in U.S. films
Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6027a1.htm?s_cid=mm6027a1_w
Propel Centre for
Population Health Impact report
http://www.tobaccoreport.ca/2012/
World No Tobacco Day
WHO's World No
Tobacco Day
http://www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2012/announcement/en/index.html
World No Tobacco
Day: What do people do?
http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/un/world-no-tobacco-day
Nunavut
anti-tobacco campaign
Nunavut’s Tobacco Has No Place Here campaign
http://www.nuquits.gov.nu.ca
Facebook fan page for Nunavut’s campaign
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tobacco-Has-No-Place-Here/259959614059514
