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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Gabriola;color:#1F497D">Good Afternoon Grantees,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:Gabriola;color:#1F497D">Please see the information below regarding newly released findings on tobacco and secondhand smoke.</span><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#1F497D">Tara Weston, MPH </span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;color:#1F497D">ǀ Tobacco & Community Programs Liaison<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention ǀ Public Health Division<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">800 NE Oregon Street, Suite 730 ǀ Portland, OR 97232<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:#1F497D">Desk: 971-673-1047 ǀ Cell: 503-758-5523 ǀ <a href="mailto:tara.e.weston@state.or.us">
tara.e.weston@state.or.us</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Gabriola;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:6.0pt;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Gabriola">On behalf of the Community Guide<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What is being announced?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) released the following findings on Reducing Tobacco Use and Secondhand Smoke Exposure<b>:<o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">The
</span><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/task-force-members.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Community Preventive Services Task Force</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="http://wwwdev.thecommunityguide.org/about/categories.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">recommends</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/comprehensive.html"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">comprehensive tobacco control programs</span></b></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
based on strong evidence of effectiveness in reducing tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure. Evidence indicates these programs
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<![if !supportLists]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><span style="mso-list:Ignore">1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Reduce the prevalence of tobacco use in adults and young people,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Reduce tobacco product consumption,
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Increase quitting, and
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Contribute to reductions in tobacco-related diseases and deaths.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Economic evidence</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""> indicates that comprehensive
tobacco control programs are cost-effective, and healthcare savings exceed intervention costs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Why is this important?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States. Cigarette smoking has been causally linked
to diseases of nearly all organs of the body, to diminished health status and to harm to the fetus (CDC, 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Smoking imposes an immense burden on society with over 480,000 premature deaths, over $156 billion in lost productivity costs, and at least $133
billion in direct medical care expenditures in the United States each year (CDC, 2014).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="mso-margin-top-alt:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt;margin-left:.5in;mso-add-space:auto;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l5 level1 lfo8">
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Smokeless tobacco, cigars, and pipes also have deadly consequences, including lung, larynx, esophageal, and oral cancers as well as coronary heart
disease (CDC, 2004, CDC, 2006; National Cancer Institute, 1998). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Secondhand smoke exposure causes serious disease and death, including cancer, respiratory and cardiovascular diseases, and adverse effects on the
health of infants and children including sudden infant death syndrome (CDC, 2014). An estimated 88 million nonsmoking Americans, including about 54% of young children aged 3–11 years, are exposed to secondhand smoke (CDC, 2010).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Who should know about this Task Force recommendation?
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Those interested in community-based strategies to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure may be interested in these recommendations, such as public health professionals</span><span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">,
</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">clinicians, </span>
<span lang="EN" style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">health</span><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> care organizations, insurers, and employers.
<b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What materials are available to help share this information with others?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/news/2014/tobacco-comprehensive.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">News Story</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
- Use this ready-to-go story for newsletters and websites, or simply link to it from the following introduction:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The
</span><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/task-force-members.html"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Community Preventive Services Task Force</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">announced that it
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">recommends<span style="color:black">
</span></span><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/comprehensive.html"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">comprehensive tobacco control programs</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#C00000">
</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">to reduce tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Sample Tweets –
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Working on controlling tobacco use? Implement what works: comprehensive tobacco control programs #TheCommunityGuide
</span><a href="http://bit.ly/1yCTnmC"><span class="protocol"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://</span></span><span style="color:#1F497D">bit.ly/1yCTnmC</span></a><span style="color:red">
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]>Do comprehensive tobacco control programs cut tobacco use? Task Force says yes.
<span style="color:black">#TheCommunityGuide </span><a href="http://bit.ly/1yCTnmC"><span class="protocol"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://</span></span><span style="color:#1F497D">bit.ly/1yCTnmC</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="color:black">Comprehensive tobacco control programs = Cost-effective tobacco control. #TheCommunityGuide
</span><a href="http://bit.ly/1yCTnmC"><span class="protocol"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://</span></span><span style="color:#1F497D">bit.ly/1yCTnmC</span></a><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span></span><![endif]>See #TheCommunityGuide for >210 findings from the Community Preventive Services Task Force.
<a href="http://bit.ly/10buxvA"><span style="color:#1F497D">http://bit.ly/10buxvA</span></a><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="color:black;text-decoration:none"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/flyer.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Community Guide Flyer</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
– Use this as a handout, web link, attachment, or as a source of wording for materials you develop.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/tobacco/OnePager-Comprehensive.pdf"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">One-pager</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">– Use this as a handout, web link, attachment for a quick summary of the Task Force findings with links for more information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">What are the Task Force, Community Guide, and Liaisons?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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</span><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/task-force-members.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force)</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
is an independent, nonfederal, uncompensated panel of public health and prevention experts. The Task Force works to improve the health of all Americans by providing evidence-based recommendations about community preventive programs, services, and policies
to improve health. Its members represent a broad range of research, practice, and policy expertise in community prevention services, public health, health promotion, and disease prevention.<span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">T</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">he Guide to Community Preventive
Services</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"> (The Community Guide) is a website that is a collection of all the evidence-based findings and recommendations of the Community Preventive Services Task Force.</span><span lang="EN" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><a href="http://www.thecommunityguide.org/about/liaisons.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#1F497D">Liaisons to the Task Force</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt">— Many of the nation’s leading health practice and
research agencies and organizations hold official Liaison</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:blue">
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt">status with the Community Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force). They participate in Task Force meetings; serve on systematic review teams; represent the views, concerns, and needs of their organizations and constituents;
and disseminate findings to their members and constituents.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">References:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">CDC.
</span><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/2004/index.htm"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">.
Atlanta: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2004 [accessed 2013 June 25].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">CDC.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
</span><a href="http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/secondhandsmoke/report-index.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke:
A Report of the Surgeon General.</span></a><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Coordinating Center for Health Promotion, National Center for
Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2006.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">CDC.
</span><a href="http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/50-years-of-progress/index.html"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">The Health Consequences of Smoking—50 Years of Progress</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5802a2.htm"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">State-Specific Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost --- United States, 2000--2004</span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">
MMWR, <span style="color:#333333">2009, 58(2);29-33.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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</span><a href="http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5935a4.htm"><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Vital Signs: Nonsmokers' Exposure to Secondhand Smoke—United States, 1999–2008</span></a><span style="font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#333333">.
Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2010;59(35):1141–6 [accessed 2014 Oct 9].<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">National Cancer Institute.
</span><a href="http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/tcrb/monographs/9/m9_complete.pdf" target="_blank" title="Link to PDF file; link to non-CDC Web site; link opens in new window"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Cigars:
Health Effects and Trends</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">[PDF–2.93 MB]</span>. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 9. Bethesda (MD): U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 1998. [accessed
2013 June 25]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></span></span><![endif]><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">World Health Organization.
</span><a href="http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Monographs/vol89/mono89.pdf" target="_blank" title="Link to PDF file; link to non-CDC Web site; link opens in new window"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Smokeless
Tobacco and Some Tobacco-Specific N-Nitrosamines</span></a><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
<span style="border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">[PDF–3.18 MB]</span>. International Agency for Research on Cancer Monographs on the Evaluation of Carcinogenic Risks to Humans Vol. 89. Lyon, (France): World Health Organization, International Agency for
Research on Cancer, 2007 [accessed 2013 June 25].</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Brush Script MT"">On behalf of the Community Guide</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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