Hello all, OTEC will meet this Thursday, July 17, at 5 PM at CHINS, 501 24th Street in Alamogordo. The agenda is below. Allen Stenger. Greetings and...
Health and Human Services Secretary Michael Leavitt sent a letter to Congressman Joe L. Barton on July 21 expressing the Bush administration's opposition to...
Billionaire philanthropists Michael Bloomberg and Bill Gates are donating a total of $375 million to cut smoking globally. This is in addition to a $125...
There's a new conspiracy theory making the rounds, namely that smoking bans are being passed because of lobbying by pharmaceutical companies who sell smoking...
The Navajo Nation Council has voted to ban all use of commercial tobacco in public places on the reservation. This includes outdoor public places, and includes...
The ban is not a done deal yet, as it still needs to be signed by Navajo President Joe Shirley, Jr. He has 10 days to decide. More press coverage is here: ...
The House voted 326-102 on Wednesday to give the FDA power to regulate tobacco. The bill still has to get through the Senate, and President Bush has signalled...
The New Mexico Department of Health is now accepting applications to be certified as a cigar bar under the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act. The Act provides...
Navaho President Joe Shirley, Jr. has vetoed the Navajo smoking ban, according to the Associated Press. He cited concerns that it would interfere with...
Otero County Tobacco Education Coalition will meet this Friday, September 19, at Noon, at CHINS, 501 24th Street in Alamogordo. The agenda is below. This is an...
Four anti-anti-smoking groups have filed complaints against the 2006 Surgeon General's report on secondhand smoke with the Office of Research Integrity of the...
Otero County Tobacco Education Coalition will meet this Thursday, October 16, at 5 PM at CHINS, 501 24th Street in Alamogordo. Dinner will be provided. The...
(this is off-topic, but members of this coalition are interested in public policy and quality of life issues and would probably like to attend this meeting...
Reminder: the meeting is tonight! The Library Foundation will be presenting a new plan to get funding for the larger library. There's a story about the new...
According to an article in the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, the number of smokefree college campuses has more than quadrupled since 2006, from 34 to 160. The...
New Mexico is 11th in the nation in funding tobacco prevention programs, according to a November 18, 2008 report from Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. The...
Hello all, We've taken off a couple of months, but OTEC meetings will start up again in 2009 with a regular meeting on Friday, January 16 at Noon at CHINS (501...
Hello all, Otero County Tobacco Education Coalition will meet this Friday (January 16) at Noon at CHINS, 501 24th Street in Alamogordo. Lunch will be provided....
We had a little bit of discussion about third-hand smoke at the OTEC meeting last Friday. Here's a brief article from Scientific American online, interviewing...
According to a new poll, about 76% of likely voters in New Mexico favor a $1 per pack increase in the state cigarette tax to help with the projected budget...
Colleges in North Carolina, a high tobacco-producing state, are increasingly going smoke-free or are severely limiting areas where smoking is permitted. The...
President Obama today signed a bill reauthorizing and extending the S-CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program). Similar legislation had been passed...
Hello all, Otero County Tobacco Education Coalition meets this Thursday, February 19, 5 PM, at CHINS, 501 24th Street in Alamogordo. We'll have a potluck...
(1) Senate Bill 44, introduced by Bernadette M. Sanchez, would amend the Dee Johnson Clean Indoor Air Act to ban smoking in motor vehicles where a minor is...
Otero Tobacco Education Coalition meets this Thursday, April 16, at 5 PM at CHINS, 501 24th Street in Alamogordo. The agenda is below. See you then! Allen...
Hello all, Due to a schedule conflict the OTEC meeting scheduled for May 15 is cancelled. We'll meet on June 19 at Noon at CHINS; the program will be on media...
Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle today signed a bill banning smoking in Wisconsin bars, restaurants, and work places. The ban takes effect July 2010. The state...
North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue today signed a bill banning smoking in bars and restaurants, although not in other workplaces or public places. The ban...
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