Legacy forum, White House initiative can improve health of military families
Editor
Nov 1, 2011
A great way to mark Veterans' Day is to help a veteran or someone currently serving in the military to quit using tobacco.
The smoking rate among members of the U.S. military — 30.6 percent in 2008 — is far higher than for the adult population as a whole. Despite slow but steady progress in reducing smoking among American adults, the rate of smoking among military personnel has remained unchanged since 1998, when it was 29.9 percent.
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posted November 01, 2011
ABC World News Now reports on how young players mimic their role models to become addicted
Editor
Oct 27, 2011
ABC World News Now reports on young baseball players who started chewing tobacco as teens and now can't break their addiction. Southern Baptist leader Dr. Richard Land and ESPN analyst Bobby Valentine tell the network that Major League Baseball must provide better role models.
Says Valentine: "The message is this–wise up! We have to put forth a better face, and that face has to be one without a bulge in our lip."
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posted October 27, 2011
Editorials, columnists say get tobacco out of baseball
Editor
Oct 26, 2011
Newspaper editorials and sports columnists around the country are calling for the Major League Baseball players union to finally end the game's unseemly addiction to tobacco by agreeing to ban the use of smokeless tobacco in the next collective bargaining agreement.
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posted October 26, 2011
Chamber of Commerce urges statewide smoke-free law
Editor
Oct 24, 2011
A quarter century ago, Kentucky lawmakers responded to a proposal for smoke-free indoor air by lighting up cigarettes in a legislative chamber.
Now smoke-free advocates in the tobacco-producing state are getting a stunningly different reaction — a strong endorsement from the state's leading business group.
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posted October 24, 2011
Flavored cigars, free samples and hip-hop imagery target urban youth
Editor
Oct 21, 2011
A California-based company is promoting flavored cigars called "Hoodwraps" to inner-city youth, using names such as "Da Bomb Blueberry" and "Swag Berry," and even handing out free samples in downtown Indianapolis.
Trendsettah USA is marketing the cigars with "street teams" — inner-city youth recruited to give out the samples. The slogan for Hoodwraps: "So Hood. So Good." The aggressive promotion has angered local tobacco-control advocates, who note that urban youth in Indiana are more likely to begin smoking at an earlier age than the national average.
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posted October 21, 2011
Video, radio interviews promote tobacco-free baseball
Editor
Oct 19, 2011
Sen. Richard Durbin of Illinois, a long-time tobacco-control champion, hit a homerun on the floor of the Senate yesterday when he made a compelling speech aimed at getting smokeless tobacco out of Major League Baseball.
Among millions of viewers who will watch the start of the World Series tonight, Durbin noted, are kids who will see their baseball heroes and imitate "that little puff in the lip, that can in the pocket. And they think that’s part of being a great baseball player."
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posted October 19, 2011
Health officials in Texas and St. Louis want tobacco out of World Series, MLB
Editor
Oct 18, 2011
With the Texas Rangers and St. Louis Cardinals set to begin the 2011 World Series Wednesday night, four U.S. Senators called on the Major League Baseball Players Association to protect players' health and the well-being of millions of young fans by agreeing to a contractual ban on tobacco use at games.
Sens. Richard Durbin (D-Ill), Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Ct) urged in a letter to Players Association executive director Michael Weiner that the ban be effective in the 2012 baseball contract. The senators noted that the World Series is likely to be watched by an estimated 15 million viewers, many of them children.
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posted October 18, 2011
Help us honor outstanding young people who are working to save lives
Editor
Oct 14, 2011
It's that time of year again — nominations for the 2012 Youth Advocates of the Year (YAYA) Awards are open!
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posted October 14, 2011
Chan says countries must stand together to thwart efforts to block anti-smoking measures
Editor
Oct 12, 2011
World Health Organization Director-General Margaret Chan has accused the tobacco industry of dirty tricks and unethical behavior in its latest efforts to challenge tobacco-control laws and policies around the world.
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posted October 12, 2011
League Championship Series should set the pace for tobacco-free baseball
Editor
Oct 10, 2011
The Detroit Tigers and Texas Rangers, Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals can do more than make baseball history as they face off in the American and National League championship series.
The players can help break Major League Baseball's addiction to smokeless tobacco by voluntarily refraining from using tobacco during the high-profile playoff games, viewed by millions of kids in the United States and around the world.
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posted October 10, 2011
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