HHS & FDA Youth and Tobacco Town Hall, Live Webcast, Tomorrow June 14

HHS & FDA Youth and Tobacco Town Hall Meeting  Live Webcast tomorrow, June 14  Join us tomorrow, Thursday, June 14, for an important and timely Town Hall Meeting on Youth and Tobacco.  Participants will be sharing tools and best practices in tobacco use prevention, and discussing how to enhance existing efforts and devise new strategies to help youth resist pressures to start using tobacco. Three top health leaders will join public health professionals, policymakers, educators, and—most importantly young people—from around the Pacific Northwest in the day-long meeting.  The speakers commencing the meeting will be: FDA Center for Tobacco Products Director, Dr. Lawrence Deyton will discuss an action agenda for tobacco product regulation. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin will highlight the 2012 report Preventing Tobacco Use among Youth and Young Adults.    Dr. Timothy McAfee, CDC Office on Smoking and Health Director, will present CDC's work in tobacco use prevention. The morning session of the day-long program will be webcast on June 14, 2012, from 9:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. PT (12:00 p.m.- 2:45 p.m. ET) from the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. To participate via live Web streaming, visit uwtv.org/webcast/youthandtobacco at the time of the webcast.  We also invite you to provide comments via Twitter, using the hashtag: #PNWtobacco. Read more about the goals of the meeting and view a complete agenda.     You are subscribed to FDA Tobacco Products Email Updates. Subscriber Services: Manage Preferences | Unsubscribe | Help with this service If you have questions, please email AskCTP@fda.hhs.gov or call 1-877-CTP-1373. Food and Drug Administration | 9200 Corporate Blvd.  | Rockville, MD 20850  | www.fda.gov/tobacco This email was sent to kostikblog@ukr.net using GovDelivery, on behalf of: U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) · 10903 New Hampshire Ave · Silver Spring, MD 20993 · 800-439-1420