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- MOTAC Launches New and Improved Website
The Metro Omaha Tobacco Action Coalition (MOTAC) launched its revamped Website in September. The Website contains information about how to become involved with MOTAC as well as a variety of resources.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
- New Guidelines Promote Tobacco-Free Campuses
The American College Health Association has released new guidelines encouraging colleges and universities nationwide to adopt campus-wide tobacco-free policies. The guidelines also include prohibitions on tobacco sampling, marketing, and sponsorship, and recommendations to provide cessation support to the campus community.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
- Secondhand Smoke Campaign: The Sunflower Test
A Sao Paulo (Brazil) ad agency came up with a highly visual representation of the dangers of secondhand smoke (and smoking). Two sunflowers were placed next to each other in glass cubicles. Both were kept in identical conditions, except that one passively smoked a cigarette each day for a week.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
- Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects
On October 15, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a new report, Secondhand Smoke Exposure and Cardiovascular Effects: Making Sense of the Evidence.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
- Updated Resource from the ANR Foundation
The American Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) Foundation has updated their The Smoker Next Door...Handling Unwanted Tobacco Smoke in Apartments and Condominiums advice sheet.
Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
- New Smokefree Movie Ads
Smoke Free Movies has launched a new series of print ads. Educational use of these ads is allowed at no charge.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
- Small Amounts of Smoke Raise Risk of Death from Cardiovascular Disease
Even small amounts of smoke - such as from smoking a few cigarettes a day, inhaling someone else's tobacco smoke or breathing polluted air - increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease (CVD), researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
Tobacco Free Nebraska
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