Wednesday, April 25th 1 – 2 pm EDT This webinar highlights two of the 20 communities that NACCHO and the National Association of Local Boards of Health (NALBOH) have worked … Read More
Tuesday March 27th, 1 to 2:30 PM ET. Join leading experts from the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health and the Schroeder Institute for Tobacco Research and Policy Studies … Read More
With partners the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids and the American Heart Association, Counter Tobacco is proud to announce today’s release of a new report: Deadly Alliance: How Big Tobacco and Convenience … Read More
Presenters: Danny McGoldrick, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Kurt M. Ribisl, UNC Gillings School of Public Health Danny McGoldrick discusses the Deadly Alliance report, which outlines ways that the tobacco industry … Read More
In June 2009, President Obama signed into law the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act. Over two years later, provisions of this law are still going into effect and … Read More
About 3 to 3.5% of people in the US are smokeless tobacco users – a stable prevalence – though use is more common among Whites and American Indian/Alaska Native populations … Read More
Tobacco companies have long been fighting the 2009 Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act requirement to place graphic health warnings on cigarette packages beginning in September 2012. US District … Read More
New research from Drs. Jidong Huang and Frank Chaloupka of the University of Illinois at Chicago was published online this week in the journal Tobacco Control. Dr. Huang is a … Read More
The CounterTobacco.org image gallery is now home to a series of chloropleth maps that have been developed and shared by site users. Chloropleth maps are an easy way to visualize how … Read More
Introducing a new CounterTobacco.org feature on point of sale marketing and promotions near schools: http://www.countertobacco.org/stores-near-schools. The tobacco messages that kids see when purchasing after-school snacks are some of the few remaining. Point-of-sale … Read More
