Lorraine Reitzel (TTTF Director) was recently awarded a grant from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to expand the TTTF program through a project titled, Taking Texas Tobacco Free among Substance Users within Community-based Healthcare Settings in Rural and Medically Underserved Areas Across Texas. Quarterly Newsletter 10/2020 This quarter we partnered with new centers and provided Tobacco Education Training to their clinical staff as part of our "Train the Trainer" program
New coverage of the 2025 Traditional Sacred Tobacco Day Tobacco free Communities Tobacco free The purpose of this program is to work with the city if Minneapolis and other community groups to train youth to be peer educators on tobacco policies within the city of minneapolis
Overall, the Contraband Tobacco Team and members from other federal and provincial law enforcement agencies work closely together at the operational level (e.g., Cornwall Regional Task Force, Ontario Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau, Ontario Ministry of Finance)
The FDA cannot and will not enforce against individual consumer possession or use of menthol cigarettes or any tobacco product, Zeller said
"The Misuse of Drugs Act is past its sell-by date and needs to be redone," he said