No Menthol Sunday (May 28th), a national observance day led by NAATPN, Inc. is an important opportunity to engage faith leaders and their communities in a discussion about how to improve health outcomes for African Americans. Tobacco is still the number one killer of African Americans, and people of faith can play a major role … Read More
Keeping up with the ever-changing federal tobacco control policy landscape can be challenging. It’s complicated, and new developments arise daily. This webinar will discuss the federal political climate and the … Read More
More communities are moving beyond siloed approaches to the retail environment. California’s Healthy Stores for a Health Community (HSHC) campaign is one catalyst for this change. Join ChangeLab Solutions for a webinar that builds on the momentum created from the HSHC campaign, a statewide collaboration with partners in tobacco control, nutrition, and excessive alcohol use … Read More
Webinar description: The evidence is clear: menthol in tobacco products is a public health risk. Menthol encourages youth to smoke, makes it harder for smokers to quit and is disproportionately marketed to African Americans and other targeted populations. After years of federal inaction, local policy solutions to the problem of menthol are gaining momentum across … Read More
Counter Tools' first quarterly webinar will host guest presenters and research scientists, Dr. Ilona Jaspers, Dr. Flori Sassano, and Dr. Arunava Ghosh from the UNC/Tobacco Centers of Regulatory Science (TCORS). They will be discussing their findings on what is in e-liquids used in e-cigarettes and other vaping devices as well as the possible impacts of … Read More
We are excited to announce the dates for CounterTobacco.org's 6th Annual Photo Contest! Each year we host this contest to showcase what's happening at tobacco retailers all across the country. These images are crucial to educating the public and furthering the success of state and local tobacco control efforts that seek to reduce tobacco industry activity … Read More
This Tobacco Control Legal Consortium webinar is designed to give members of the tobacco control and public health community a short refresher on how laws in general – and tobacco control laws in particular – are passed at the federal, state, and local levels. Although the webinar will use examples from tobacco control, the session … Read More
This webinar will offer case studies for successfully passed local policies restricting the sale of menthol tobacco products. Come find out how these localities were able to pass their policies, who helped, lessons learned and more.
Preemptive policies and preemption-based legal challenges can block state and local advances in tobacco control and public health and derail important initiatives. In this first of a series of Consortium and Public Health Law Center webinars on the impact of preemption on public health and safety, public health experts will provide a general background on … Read More
Exploring, creating, or sharing tobacco control strategies or policies? Need the latest federal, state and local resources and data to support your work? This webinar showcases a variety of handy online resources that anyone in tobacco control – local, state, and federal public health advocates and professionals, researchers, policymakers, attorneys, as well as private citizens … Read More
Last updated August 28, 2018
