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Recently the annual TAP/TEG Facilitator
survey was emailed to you. The survey takes about five
minutes to complete and not only provides us with
updated information on TAP/TEG but also
provides you with a great year end report of your
groups and their outcomes. If you have not already
emailed or faxed back the survey to me please do so
by June 30th, 2007. Please email them to me at:
amy@communityintervention.org or fax them to:
612-342-2388. Thank you. - Amy DeNoyer-Hickey,
Training Director, Community Intervention, Inc.
| Prenatal Smoking Affects Teen Attention Spans |
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Female teens who smoke and whose mothers
smoked while pregnant with them are more likely to
have attention problems according to researchers at
Yale University. The young women showed visual and
auditory attention deficits while the young males had
more auditory deficits and fewer visual deficits.
The study tested the visual and auditory attentiveness
of 181 teens, 92 who had been exposed to smoke in
utero and 67 who were daily smokers. Brain scans
done during the study showed that certain parts of the
brain in teens exposed to nicotine worked harder
when they performed tasks. Non smokers who were
not exposed to smoke while in the womb
performed better on the tests. The complete study can
be found on the online journal of
neuropsychopharmacology, March 21, 2007 (JTO
News Research Summary, April 12, 2007)
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| Tobacco Ads DO Attract Teens |
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Cigarette display advertising in retail stores has been
proven to increase the likelihood of teen smoking
according to a recent study by the University of Illinois -
Chicago. The study looked at marketing data from
966 communities in the United States and analyzed
surveys from over 26,000 teens in grades 8-12. The
research from those communities found that cigarette
display point of sale advertising, price cuts and gifts
with puchase all influenced a teen's likelyhood of
smoking. The complete study can be found in the May
issue of the Journal Archieves of Pediatrics and
Adolescent Medicine. (Healthday.com, May 10, 2007)
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| Teens Believe People Who are Successful Smoke |
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Teens who believe successful people smoke are
more likely to become smokers arrording to a study by
the University of Pittsburgh. The study identified three
normative beliefs of the teens in the study: perceived
prevalance of smoking, perceived popularity of
smoking among elite and successful elements of
society, and the approval or disapproval of smoking
by their peers and parents. The students in the study
were from a public high school and were a mix of
current smokers and those most succeptible to start
smoking; 47.2% were male, 90.2% were white and
the mean age was 15.9.
This study found that
24% of teens incorrectly believed that successful
business people smoked at least once a month and
that 27% incorrectly believed that wealthy people
smoked more than poor people. The study found that
the teens were more likely to smoke if the people they
admired smoked and were more likely not to smoke if
their peers and family disapproved of it. The complete
study can be found in the May issue of the Archieves of
Adolescent and Pediatric Medicine. (Medpage.com,
May 8, 2007)
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| Can Spirituality Aid Smoking Cessation? |
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Researchers at the Oregon Health and Sciences
University found that 78% of current smokers believed
that incorporating spirituality into their attempts to quit
smoking could be helpful. David Gonzales, Ph.D and
lead author of the study noted that while behavioral
interventions, combined with smoking cessation
medicines can help increase quit rates, there
may be merit in recognizing a spiritual component
inconjunction with them as well.
(JTO Reseach News Summary, May 8, 2007)
May Question of the Month
What changes are you planning to make in your
TAP/TEG groups next year?
The first four people to responding to me in detail at:
amy@communityintervention.org will receive 10
TAP or TEG student work books.
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| Cigarette Signature Brands Expanding |
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To help curb the cost of introducing new cigarette
brands to the market some tobacco companies are
now making the most of their most popular brands by
expanding on them.
R.J Reynolds Tobacco had
most recently come under fire from anti-smoking
advocates who felt that they were marketing their new
cigarette Camel N0.9 to young women by trying to
make smoking appear glamous. On May 4, 2007 five
United States Senators sent a letter to the U.S.
Federal Trade Comission regarding the marketing of
Camel N0.9
For the past year R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco has tested new tobacco flavors for
their Camel signature brand recently introduced new
versions of their popular Kool and Camel cigarettes.
Kool has two new menthol versions called Groove and
Flow. Camel offers: Camel Mello-a sun-cured flavored
cigarette, Camel Frost, which is menthol flavored
cigarette, Camel Robust, which is described as
having a "burley" taste and Camel Infused which
claims to have a spicy taste.(JTO News Summary, May
17, 2007)
TAP/TEG Training Schedule
May 31-June 1, 2007
Tempe/Phoenix, AZ
June 20-21, 2007
Grand Island, NE
August 6-7, 2007
Reading, PA
August 20-21, 2007
Laramie, WY
September 20-21, 2007
Pasco, WA
October 25-26, 2007
Los Angeles, CA
November 14-15, 2007
San Diego, CA
November 19-20, 2007
Indianapolis, IN
To register on-line for a training visit
www.communityintervention.org under training dates
and locations.
For more information how to sponsor or cosponsor a
training contact Amy DeNoyer-Hickey at 1-800-328-
0417 or amy@communityintervention.org
For on-line specials, updated books, games and
videos, visit our website at
www.communityintervention.org
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