Tag Archives: smoking

“My Name is Sherrill and I’m a Recovering Smoker”

  Sherrill Wayland, MSW SAGE Metro St. Louis         “My Name is Sherrill and I’m a Recovering Smoker” This was my opening comment for the “Voices of Community Partners” Panel, during the Community Engagement to Address Tobacco-related Health Disparities Pre-Conference at SRNT.  If you had told me a year ago that IContinue reading ““My Name is Sherrill and I’m a Recovering Smoker””

SRNT Poster watch: An Examination of poly-tobacco use in sexual and gender minority individuals

    Real-time reporting from SRNT brought to you by your trusty Network       As you may know, the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco 19th Annual International Meeting is taking place this week in Boston! We wanted to give a shout-out to some of our friends (and heroes) in LGBT Tobacco ControlContinue reading “SRNT Poster watch: An Examination of poly-tobacco use in sexual and gender minority individuals”

PRESS RELEASE: FINDINGS FROM CDC’S NATIONAL ADULT TOBACCO SURVEY SHOWS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER PREVALENCE OF TOBACCO USE AMONG LGBT RESPONDENTS VERSUS GENERAL POPULATION

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                                         September 20, 2012     Contact:     Chris Viveiros 617.927.6342 / 617.721.7494                                        Continue reading “PRESS RELEASE: FINDINGS FROM CDC’S NATIONAL ADULT TOBACCO SURVEY SHOWS SIGNIFICANTLY HIGHER PREVALENCE OF TOBACCO USE AMONG LGBT RESPONDENTS VERSUS GENERAL POPULATION”

Dissonance

by e.shor After some tumultuous travel, I finally arrived in Bloomington where the queers are bustling in the Indiana Memorial Union Hotel and Conference Center among many wedding parties. Irony? Duh. This is a small conference with lots of space for conversation and learning from discussion and questions. I like that. I had a chanceContinue reading “Dissonance”