http://www.tobacco.org/newsfeed/state/CO.rss Latest top tobacco news headlines en-us http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2012/01/17/ntr.ntr303.abstract http://tobacco.org/news/333622.html Conclusions: GLBT self-identification was not associated with lower than average acceptance of evidence-based smoking cessation strategies, especially NRT, but a large minority of GLBT smokers were unlikely to seek cessation assistance through clinical encounters. Public health campaigns should focus on supporting motivation to quit and providing nonclinical access to evidence-based treatments. Nicotine and Tobacco Research journals.permissions@oup.com Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19930704?source=rss http://tobacco.org/news/333583.html AURORA -- A group determined to prevent minors from using tobacco is asking the city to issue licenses to sell tobacco products other than cigarettes. Tobacco-Free Aurora has in recent weeks urged City Council members to adopt a licensing policy. State statutes place financial penalties on communities that license cigarette sales, allowing the state to withhold funds collected from tobacco taxes. But other tobacco products are free to be licensed without penalty. By licensing the noncigarette products, including chewing tobacco and cigars, cities may better track who is selling those items and can enforce laws, similar to the way communities regulate alcohol sales to minors. Denver Post cillescas@denverpost.com (Carlos Illescas) Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_19895891?source=rss http://tobacco.org/news/333335.html A group determined to prevent minors from using tobacco is asking the city to issue licenses to sell tobacco products other than cigarettes. Tobacco-Free Aurora has in recent weeks urged City Council members to adopt a licensing policy. State statutes place financial penalties on communities that license cigarette sales, allowing the state to withhold funds collected from tobacco taxes. But other tobacco products are free to be licensed without penalty. By licensing the noncigarette products, including chewing tobacco and cigars, cities may better track who is selling those items and can enforce laws, similar to the way communities regulate alcohol sales to minors. For example, cities could have the power to suspend or revoke a license if a retailer sells tobacco to minors. Denver Post cillescas@denverpost.com (Carlos Illescas The Denver Post) Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.craigdailypress.com/news/2012/jan/28/tmh-facilities-track-becoming-tobacco-free-july-1/ http://tobacco.org/news/333019.html Starting this summer, The Memorial Hospital, along with its satellite facilities, will be completely tobacco-free. At its regular meeting Thursday, the hospital board unanimously approved the final draft of a plan to prohibit smoking and any other kind of tobacco use on TMH grounds. Hospital officials are planning to put the new policy in place July 1. Smoking is already prohibited within a short distance outside a hospital, said Jennifer Riley, TMH chief of organizational excellence. Craig Daily Press Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_19788311 http://tobacco.org/news/332539.html From banning smoking in public places to finally building a north Boulder library branch, the Boulder City Council spent the second day of its annual retreat Saturday laying out new goals and hashing out priorities for the next two years. . . . Matt Appelbaum supported taking a look at banning smoking in public places. "We were once ahead of the game," he said. "Now we're probably a decade behind." Boulder Daily Camera urieh@dailycamera.com (Heath Urie, Camera Staff Writer ) Sun, 22 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20120113/NEWS/120119905/1001&parentprofile=1058 http://tobacco.org/news/332056.html Sales clerks at four local businesses are due in Pitkin County Court on Tuesday to answer charges that they sold cigarettes to minors. Employees at Great Western Grog Shop, City Market, Sundance Drug & Liquor and Aspen Quick Mart were cited after the Department of Revenue's Tobacco Enforcement Unit operated a sting in Pitkin County on Nov. 22. The sting was part of a routine compliance check the state does in Pitkin County at least once a year, said Mark Couch, spokesman for the Revenue Department. "We're constantly doing them throughout the year," he said, noting that the state averages between 2,000 and 3,000 tobacco compliance checks annually. The checks are part of a federal program, Couch said. Aspen Times rcarroll@aspentimes.com ( Rick Carroll The Aspen Times) Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:00:00 GMT http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20111221/LETTER/111229996/1078&ParentProfile=1055 http://tobacco.org/news/330927.html To those smokers who make the choice to carelessly flick your cigarettes, rather than find a better end to a poor choice, I salute you. For your self-serving arrogance. For your inability to recognize that your decision to pass your carcinogen-laced filter into our shared environment hastens the shorter snow season we all decry. You are truly blind to the consequences of your needless action. You encourage the poor ski conditions inherited by everyone; the snow-gunned manifestation of a season failing to satisfy. We are the victims of poor decisions; our own or those of others. Stand up and get involved. Tell others their decision to flick their butts on our mountains is unacceptable. Do your part. Keep Colorado clean. Spread the word. Summit Daily News Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.law360.com/articles/294157/colo-exits-antitrust-suit-over-tobacco-master-settlement http://tobacco.org/news/330627.html A New York federal judge approved a settlement Wednesday between the state of Colorado and Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd. in the cigarette maker's long-running antitrust suit disputing the $200 billion tobacco master settlement between state attorneys general and the nation's largest tobacco companies. The suit, filed by Grand River in 2002, stems from a 1998 deal between 46 attorneys general and 19 participating tobacco companies, including the big four . . . U.S. District Judge John F. Keenan gave his blessing to the Colorado settlement, dismissing the action with prejudice, with each side to bear its own costs. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal follows settlements Grand River reached in November with the states of Wyoming and Illinois, while Delaware, Oregon and Ohio all settled out of the case in October. Law360 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20111126/COLUMNS/111129891&parentprofile=search http://tobacco.org/news/329958.html In my job at the Summit Community Care Clinic, parents every day tell me they feel alone in their fight to protect kids from tobacco and other substance abuse. And the fight becomes even harder when the big tobacco companies come into our county targeting children with their colorful, trendy products designed to entice kids to buy. It's not just about cigarettes anymore, either. Now, tobacco companies like R.J. Reynolds are test-marketing dissolvable tobacco products that come in the form of orbs, sticks and strips -- including right here in Summit County. I am very worried about kids using these products at a younger and younger age. These products look like candy and are very colorful and attractive. They are intended for children and youth consumption. . . . People need to be aware that these products have lifetime consequences for our kids. If we can't stop the big tobacco companies from using Summit County as a market test-bed, we must do more as a community to ensure our children are not able to buy or use these harmful substances. For starters, I challenge every adult out there to talk to two kids -- a son or daughter, neighbor or friend -- about the dangers of tobacco. Summit Daily News Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.summitdaily.com/ARTICLE/20111204/LETTER/111209950/-1/RSS http://tobacco.org/news/329853.html Re. "Tobacco's bad, but not No. 1 killer" by Joanne Richardson, guest commentary, Nov. 30 Ms. Richardson is a coroner, not an epidemiologist, not a public health scholar. This may explain why she thinks tobacco products and heart diseases are distinct causes of death. In fact, hundreds of thousands of Americans die every year from heart disease caused by cigarettes. In fact smoking is the number one controllable risk factor for heart attack, more than diet or exercise. And fact: Tobacco products are the number one preventable cause of death in America. It kills one out of five Americans today. Summit Daily News Sat, 03 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20111201/COLUMNS/111139985/1078&ParentProfile=1055 http://tobacco.org/news/329728.html As the Summit County Coroner, I was surprised to read that tobacco is the No. 1 cause of death in Summit County ("Tobacco has a lifetime of consequences for kids," guest commentary by Jenniffer Gonzalez, Nov. 25). When I then saw the "We Count" organization ad in the Daily on Nov. 28, I felt compelled to clarify. I cannot abide by facts being distorted or inflated to make a point. I list tobacco use on a death certificate as "past smoker or current smoker" when applicable, but it is NOT the No. 1 cause of death in Summit County. The No. 1 cause of death in Summit County is heart disease. It is usually not due to any one cause but a combination. . . . There are only a handful of cases a year in Summit County that can be directly linked to tobacco use. These would include lung cancer, COPD or emphysema. So no, it is not the No. 1 cause of death in Summit County. I don't know where Ms. Gonzalez pulled this number from, but she didn't consult my office and it is obvious she did not consult the Colorado Health Department, either. We live in a free market society that brings many choices, and people don't always make the right choices. Tobacco companies have lobbyists, and the incestuous nature of their relationships with lawmakers contributes to this problem. We live in such a commercial society that it will continue to be an issue. These new tobacco products aren't taxed due to a loophole in our state law. . . . By my stating that tobacco is not the No. 1 cause of death in Summit County might cause some to think "The coroner says smoking and tobacco are not so bad." That is not what I am saying at all. Summit Daily News Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20111126/COLUMNS/111129891 http://tobacco.org/news/329317.html In my job at the Summit Community Care Clinic, parents every day tell me they feel alone in their fight to protect kids from tobacco and other substance abuse. And the fight becomes even harder when the big tobacco companies come into our county targeting children with their colorful, trendy products designed to entice kids to buy. It's not just about cigarettes anymore, either. Now, tobacco companies like R.J. Reynolds are test-marketing dissolvable tobacco products that come in the form of orbs, sticks and strips -- including right here in Summit County. I am very worried about kids using these products at a younger and younger age. These products look like candy and are very colorful and attractive. They are intended for children and youth consumption. . . . I believe a big key to prevention is awareness throughout all of Summit County that tobacco is dangerous. Even adults sometimes don't realize the important role they play. If kids see adults doing things like using tobacco, they'll follow. They'll think it's OK to start. People need to be aware that these products have lifetime consequences for our kids. If we can't stop the big tobacco companies from using Summit County as a market test-bed, we must do more as a community to ensure our children are not able to buy or use these harmful substances. For starters, I challenge every adult out there to talk to two kids -- a son or daughter, neighbor or friend -- about the dangers of tobacco. Summit Daily News Sat, 26 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www2.journalnow.com/business/2011/nov/20/wsmain01-dissolvable-tobacco-products-appealing-to-ar-1628633/ http://tobacco.org/news/329026.html Adult female tobacco users have proven an elusive consumer group for manufacturers' smokeless/smokefree products, particularly — and especially — if they involve spitting. However, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. reported recently its Camel dissolvable tobacco products, which do not require spitting, are gaining traction with females in its test markets of Charlotte and Denver. . . . Of the adult smokers who bought Camel Sticks, Camel Strips and Camel Orbs in the test markets during September and October, adult females represented 45 percent of the consumers, according to Reynolds. Of all tobacco consumers, 31 percent of the buyers were adult females. By comparison, adult males constitute 85 percent of the users of moist snuff and Camel Snus. Winston-Salem Journal rcraver@wsjournal.com (RICHARD CRAVER * Winston-Salem Journal ) Sun, 20 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.gazette.com/articles/fda-128301-tobacco-minors.html http://tobacco.org/news/328655.html Eight Colorado Springs establishments have received warning letters from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration since February for violating federal regulations aimed at stemming the sale of tobacco products to minors, the agency reported Thursday. The number represents only about 10 percent of the 85 Colorado Springs supermarkets, liquor and convenience stores and bars checked for compliance through Oct. 31, but it sends a message that the FDA is serious about enforcing regulations drawn up in conjunction with the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act of 2009. Colorado Springs Gazette Fri, 11 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT http://www.coloradoan.com/article/20111102/GETPUBLISHED/111020364/Lung-Cancer-Awareness-Month-Time-Take-Action?odyssey=mod%7Cnewswell%7Ctext%7CFRONTPAGE%7Cs http://tobacco.org/news/328237.html As a disease that annually takes the lives of more people than breast, prostate, colon and pancreatic cancers combined, lung cancer will kill more than 156,000 people in the United States this year, according to the American Cancer Society. Additionally, about a quarter of a million people will face a lung cancer diagnosis. November is Lung Cancer Awareness Month a time to take action, quit smoking, educate loved ones and raise awareness for the leading cause of cancer deaths in men and women. Research from the National Cancer Institute has found that in Larimer County an average of 37 of every 100,000 people die of lung cancer each year while 45 of every 100,000 are affected by the disease. Despite the statistics, however, exposure to lung cancers biggest risk factor tobacco can be controlled. Estimates from the American Cancer Society suggest as much as 90 percent of all instances of the disease are because of tobacco use. A vast majority of lung cancer patients are current or former smokers, explains Dr. Lee McNeely, Rocky Mountain CyberKnife radiation oncologist. Take time this month to commit to a smoking cessation program or encourage a friend or family member who smokes to quit. Fort Colliins Coloradoan Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:00:00 GMT