otec at Yahoo! Groups http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/ Otero County Tobacco Education Coalition OTEC June meeting canceled Sun, 31 May 2009 03:27:55 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/120 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/120 Hello all, The June OTEC meeting, originally scheduled for June 19, is canceled. Allen Stenger. North Carolina restaurants and bars are smoke-free starting January Wed, 20 May 2009 00:58:15 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/119 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/119 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 Wisconsin is smoke-free starting July 2010 Mon, 18 May 2009 16:20:29 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/118 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/118 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 May 15 OTEC meeting cancelled Sun, 03 May 2009 18:43:14 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/117 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/117 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 OTEC meets Thursday, April 16, 5 PM, at CHINS Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:03:58 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/116 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/116 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 March OTEC meeting cancelled Mon, 16 Mar 2009 15:37:59 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/115 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/115 The OTEC meeting originally scheduled for March 20 is cancelled due to a scheduling conflict. We'll meet next in April. Allen Stenger. Legislative actions: smoking in cars with kids, smoking in bars Sat, 28 Feb 2009 14:35:31 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/114 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/114 (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 OTEC meets Thursday 5 PM at CHINS Tue, 17 Feb 2009 17:42:07 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/113 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/113 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 Children's health program (S-CHIP) expanded, paid by tobacco tax Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:30:22 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/112 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/112 President Obama today signed a bill reauthorizing and extending the S-CHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program). Similar legislation had been passed smoke-free college campuses - a survey in North Carolina Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:24:07 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/111 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/111 Colleges in North Carolina, a high tobacco-producing state, are increasingly going smoke-free or are severely limiting areas where smoking is permitted. The Poll: New Mexicans favor $1 increase in cigarette tax to help budget Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:34:48 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/110 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/110 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 brief article on third-hand smoke from Scientific American Mon, 19 Jan 2009 00:31:09 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/109 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/109 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 OTEC meets this Friday at Noon Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:48:28 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/108 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/108 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. OTEC meets Friday, January 16, Noon, at CHINS Wed, 31 Dec 2008 02:42:10 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/107 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/107 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 report: New Mexico still underspending on tobacco prevention Mon, 22 Dec 2008 14:37:49 GMT Allen Stenger http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/106 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/otec/message/106 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