Entries by Erin Hill-Oban

30 Health Groups Urge President Obama to End Delays and Issue Overdue Rule Regulating All Tobacco Products, Including E-Cigarettes and Cigars

WASHINGTON, DC – Expressing alarm about repeated delays that have endangered the health of children, 30 leading public health and medical groups today urged President Barack Obama to promptly issue a final rule providing for Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes and cigars. In a letter to the […]

UND Studio One interviews Grand Forks Public Health Tobacco Prevention Coordinator

From University of North Dakota’s Studio One: Tobacco was the first cash crop grown in North America starting in 1612. Since then, mass amounts of money have gone towards both selling tobacco and preventing its use. Studio One is a live television show produced by the University of North Dakota’s Television Center. The Television Center […]

USA Today Column: Past time for MLB to ban smokeless tobacco

Use among teen athletes is rising and won’t fall until their MLB role models give it up. By: Frank Pallone The first pitches of the new Major League Baseball season in Boston, Los Angeles and San Francisco mark the moment players there must abide by local laws that ban chewing tobacco use in ballparks. Similar restrictions in Chicago […]

Reuters: Tobacco Companies Would Rather Your E-Cigarettes Contained Tobacco

Two tobacco giants are seeing strong demand for their reboots of the e-cigarette in Japan, with Philip Morris International twice postponing a nationwide rollout and Japan Tobacco suspending shipments – both due to supply shortages. Japan has become a key testing ground for the two companies and their new, real tobacco e-smokes as they grapple […]

Center for Public Integrity: How Big Tobacco lobbies to safeguard e-cigarettes

By Nicholas Kusnetz SACRAMENTO, Calif. ­— In the Golden State, home to healthy living, progressive politics and one of the lowest smoking rates in the nation, cigarettes can seem like a relic of the past, barred long ago from restaurants, bars and even some city parks. And yet within the walls of California’s high-domed capitol, tobacco […]

Drug Store News: CDC's latest anti-smoking campaign inspired 104,000 smokers to quit

BY MICHAEL JOHNSEN ATLANTA – The latest outcomes measuring the impact of CDC’s national tobacco education campaign are as strong as those achieved in its first year, and suggest that three years into the campaign, the ads were still having a significant impact. More than 1.8 million smokers attempted to quit smoking because of the […]

Drug Store News: CDC's latest anti-smoking campaign inspired 104,000 smokers to quit

BY MICHAEL JOHNSEN ATLANTA – The latest outcomes measuring the impact of CDC’s national tobacco education campaign are as strong as those achieved in its first year, and suggest that three years into the campaign, the ads were still having a significant impact. More than 1.8 million smokers attempted to quit smoking because of the […]

ESPN: New York approves smokeless tobacco ban at sporting events

Adam Rubin, ESPN Staff Writer Smokeless tobacco will soon be off-limits for players and patrons at Citi Field and Yankee Stadium. The New York City Council approved a ban on smokeless tobacco at ticketed sporting events on Tuesday afternoon by a vote of 44-3. The law is due to take effect immediately once Mayor Bill de […]