Missouri's Tobacco Control Exchange

OTC Tobacco Workshop Scheduled

The 7th annual workshop of The Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Campus Policy will be May 26 and 27 at Ozarks Technical Community College in Springfield, Mo.

Participants will learn about implementing and enforcing tobacco-free or smoke-free  campus policies at a “flag ship” state university, independent college, multi-campus community college and other institutions served by the Center of Excellence for Tobacco-Free Campus Policy in an interactive, discussion oriented environment.

Cost of the workshop is $150 per person.  

For more information, visit www.otc.edu/tobaccofree  or e-mail Ty Patterson at patterst@otc.edu.  

Vintage Christmas Ads Highlight Smoking

Cigarettes were romanticized in film and a top choice for Santa, according to some vintage cigarette ads found around the Web. My favorite? The one showing Santa sporting a smoke and talking about how Pall Malls help with "throat scratch."

 

 

 

 

 

What to Do about Relatives Who Smoke Near Babies

What if you have close relatives who don't understand the dangers of secondhand smoke and continue to smoke around your baby?

BabyCenter.com offers an interesting thread about how parents and expectant parents handle the situation. This is a terrific post to read if relatives who smoke will be staying in your smoke-free home with you and your children.

Free Webinar on Creating Tobacco Policies

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center will host the Webinar, “Building Staff Buy-In for Tobacco-Free Policies,” on Thursday, Dec. 10, 2009, at 11am Pacific Time (2 pm Eastern Time).

You can register at:

https://rwjf.webex.com/rwjf/j.php?ED=134567492&RG=1&UID=0&RT=MiM0

If you have questions, contact SCLC at reason.reyes@ucsf.edu or call toll-free (877) 509-3786.

Apply Online for Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Initiative Community Grant Cycle 1

Agencies that want to apply for the Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Initiative Community Grant Cycle 1 can now do it online.

To apply online for Community Grant funding review the Request for Applications document, then click here to begin the application process. You will then be guided through setting up an account with Missouri Foundation for Health.  After setting up an MFH account, you will be automatically taken to the online application.

Applications may be created in more than one session, so you can do it at your own pace.  When exiting the application, be sure to choose “Save & Finish Later” to save your work. Answers can be written in other formats and then pasted into the online application.  Upon completion, applicants must choose the “submit” button or the online application will not be received by MFH.  In addition, applicants must submit online all required attachments listed in the RFA Application Checklist (page 10-11).  These can be submitted in Word, Excel, or Adobe PDF formats.

If you have any questions regarding the online application process, please contact Matthew Kuhlenbeck at 314.345.5541 (toll-free 800.655.5560) or email mkuhlenbeck@mffh.org.

Online applications are preferred, but paper applications will also be accepted. 

If you do not have the ability to upload the required attachments listed in the RFA Application Checklist, a paper copy may be submitted to:
 
Matthew Kuhlenbeck, MHA
Program Officer
Missouri Foundation for Health
1000 Saint Louis Union Station
Suite 400
St. Louis, MO 63103

Smoking While Pregnant

I heard an interesting story from a friend about a new mother who is also a smoker.

The young lady didn't quit smoking while pregnant and continues to smoke while breast feeding - even with all the data showing the dangers to a child's heath.

Women who continue to smoke while breast feeding don't have nearly as much as milk for the child, and the milk they do have tastes like cigarettes. Even so, the milk that is there offers some protection to the child from the harmful effects of nicotine, says Massachusetts General Hospital.

One study offers a terrific for mothers to stop smoking while breast feeding: Their children will sleep a lot longer and more soundly when not hyped up with nicotine-tainted milk.

Also on the Web:

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has a good list of dangers to share with expectant mothers who are smokers. 

NetWellness.org offers this Q&A on smoking and breast feeding from 2003.

Ad featured above discovered at Quit Smoking Painlessly Now.

Make Your Community Smoke-Free 101

Want to make your community smoke-free, but not sure where to begin?

A new seminar can help.

The American Nonsmokers’ Rights Foundation, the Missouri Foundation for Health and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services will offer a free seminar, Smokefree Indoor Air Policy & Grassroots Training on Wednesday, Nov. 18. Here are the details:

Location:

TBD

Training will last from 8:00am till 5:00pm.
 
Topics include:

• Best Practices in smokefree policy change
• Stakeholder roles in smokefree policy changes
• Laying the groundwork for policy advocacy
• Panel Discussion on Grassroots
• Media Messaging and Outreach
• Model Language: Ordinance Does and Don’ts
• Mock City Council Exercise

RSVP to anr@no-smoke.org with "ANRF/MFH St. Louis Training RSVP" in the Subject Line.

Reservations required by Nov. 11

Light breakfast and lunch included.

Don't Smoke but Like to Travel? Here Are Some Countries for You!

The L.A. Times' Daily Travel and Deal blog offers up some top locales for travelers who don't want to be bothered by cigarette smoke. Unfortunately, most aren't places for a dream vacation - unless you consider no plumbing  and roughing it a vacation.

Review: The New Community Rules

ProBlogger Darren Rowse reviews a new social media tome, The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.

DHSS: Teens Cigarette Addicts before They Can Legally Buy

A new Department of Health and Senior Services flier shows that Missouri youth are addicted to smoking before they are even of age to buy.

Statistics from the state show that a third of youth smokers in the Show-Me state are able to purchase smokes at stores - a clear violation of law.

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