Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth Coalition

Editorial: Simple steps will make us healthier–Cox News Service

Shelly Kiser — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:22:58 +0000

Middletown Journal Much more can be done to prevent heart disease and extend lives if better attention is paid to battling the disease, which is by far the No. 1 killer of both men and women in Ohio. A new comprehensive report by the Ohio Department of Health drives home an important message: While Ohio [...]

Editorial: Anti-smoking efforts were robbed blind–Dayton Daily News

Shelly Kiser — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:38:54 +0000

Editorial: Anti-smoking efforts were robbed blind By the Dayton Daily News | Friday, November 27, 2009, 12:00 AM In the past decade, Ohio has fumbled away a historic opportunity to attack the ills of smoking and get young people not to take up tobacco products. The really sad part is that there was no excuse. [...]

Ohio’s smoking rates may be on the rise–Dayton Daily News

Shelly Kiser — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:41:07 +0000

11:52 PM Sunday, November 22, 2009, Dayton Daily News COLUMBUS — Public health advocates foresee a perfect storm heading to Ohio next year that could increase smoking rates, gut enforcement of the indoor smoking ban and allow Big Tobacco to lure children into using new, mint-flavored tobacco products. “We are poised to see our smoking [...]

Editorial: Smoke ‘em out–Columbus Dispatch

Shelly Kiser — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:13:04 +0000

Editorial: Smoke ‘em out FDA’s new authority aims to keep kids away from tobacco Columbus Dispatch Thursday, October 8, 2009 3:08 AM New products being test-marketed in Columbus, Indianapolis and Portland, Ore., are ideal candidates for strict controls that can be imposed under the federal Food and Drug Administration’s new authority to regulate tobacco. Since [...]

Tobacco Mints a Lot Like Candy?: Columbus Dispatch

Shelly Kiser — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:05:44 +0000

By James Nash and Kathy Lynn Gray THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Camel Mints The “mints” in your child’s pocket might give much more than a sugar high, the Federal Drug Administration is warning. They might provide a jolt of nicotine. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. is test-marketing tobacco-infused mints in Columbus and two other markets. The company [...]

State May Stub Out Anti-Smoking Funds: Columbus Dispatch

Shelly Kiser — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:59:17 +0000

Thursday, September 24, 2009 3:29 AM By James Nash THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Ohio is poised to reduce its spending on anti-tobacco programs from $40 million a year early this decade to nothing by the beginning of the next decade, anti-tobacco activists said yesterday while calling for cigarette taxes to be applied to other tobacco products. [...]

An FDA Official Says 90 Percent of Smokers Start as Teens: Youngstown Vindicator

Shelly Kiser — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:56:16 +0000

Published: Thu, September 24, 2009 @ 12:00 a.m. By Marc Kovac Youngstown Vindicator COLUMBUS – An anti- smoking group said FDA restrictions instituted this week against flavored cigarettes do not apply to cigars, snuff and related tobacco products. And the Investing in Tobacco-Free Youth Coalition is continuing its call on state lawmakers to increase taxes [...]

Youth Tobacco Prevention Coalition Warns of New Threats to Kids

Shelly Kiser — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:29:43 +0000

NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT: Shelly Kiser, director of advocacy for American Lung Association® in Ohio 800-231-5864; cell: 740-739-0187; skiser@ohiolung.org Cresha Auck-Foley, advocacy director for American Heart Association® Great Rivers Affiliate 614-396-4357; cell: 614-296-1665; cresha.auck@heart.org Youth Tobacco Prevention Coalition Warns of New Threats to Kids No funding for prevention, new products [...]

New Tobacco Products: WSYX ABC 6 Columbus

Shelly Kiser — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 18:58:36 +0000

By Alexis Wiley awiley@sbgnet.com The American Lung Assoc. is taking aim at the tobacco industry, claiming companies are creating smokeless tobacco products that appeal to kids. Dissolvable tobacco products are being test marketed in Columbus. Columbus is one of only three test markets across the country. Shelly Kiser, American Lung Assoc. of Ohio, says products [...]

The Latest Thing They’re Smoking in Pipes on College Campuses: Tobacco

Shelly Kiser — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:11:44 +0000

Despite Risks, More Young People Light Up; ‘It Looked Like the Coolest Thing Ever’ February 20, 2009, Wall Street Journal By MARY PILON Dan Nemets, a sophomore at Central Michigan University, likes the TV show “Family Guy,” heavy-metal musician Ozzy Osbourne and a good pipe. Mr. Nemets took up pipe smoking 18 months ago after [...]