Important Dates

August 7, 2025 11:00 AM Pacific / 1:00 PM

Webinar from the Public Health Law Center titled: "Healthy Retail Strategies: Countering the Tobacco Industry’s Influence on Retailers"

The tobacco industry invests heavily in providing financial and resource incentives to retailers to entice them to sell and advertise commercial tobacco products. While policies such as point-of-sale restrictions and retailer density limitations are effective in dissuading some retailers, in many jurisdictions these tools are unavailable. Healthy retail strategies are another set of tools that communities may have at their disposal. These strategies counter tobacco industry incentives by equipping retailers to move away from commercial tobacco sales that harm communities and towards a business model that benefits both the retailer and the community at large.

This 75-minute Public Health Law Center webinar features three experts in the tobacco retail environment and healthy retail strategies. Presenters will describe tactics the industry uses to persuade retailers to market tobacco products and explore a range of effective countermeasures, such as providing retailers with evidence-based information on the economic and community-wide benefits of selling consumer products like fresh food.

More information & registration: https://www.publichealthlawcenter.org/webinar/healthy-retail-strategies-countering-tobacco-industrys-influence-retailers

August 19, 2025 11 AM Pacific / 2 PM Eastern

Cuts and Consequences: Current Threats to Tobacco Control and Health Equity.

This webinar from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is part of their Campaign for the Culture conversation.

The proposed elimination of the CDC’s Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) raises urgent questions about how tobacco control efforts and the communities they serve may be affected moving forward. While the full impact is still emerging, this cultural conversation brings together community leaders, public health practitioners and equity advocates to explore the consequences of these cuts. Together, we’ll reflect on what’s at stake for disproportionately impacted communities, share perspectives across sectors, and consider how we can collectively respond to protect equity in tobacco prevention and cessation.

Register Online

August 26-28, 2025 in Chicago.

The National Conference on Tobacco or Health (NCTOH) is one of the largest, long-standing gatherings for top United States tobacco control professionals. The convening attracts a diversity of public health professionals committed to best practices and policies to reduce tobacco use—the leading preventable cause of disease and death in the United States. The conference has a registration fee, see the website for available information.

More information: https://nnphi.org/relatedarticle/national-conference-tobacco-health/

Tuesday September 9. 11 AM - Noon Pacific / 2 - 3 PM Eastern

The Tobacco Endgame: History, Headwinds, and the Horizon by Ruth E. Malone, RN, PhD, Professor Emerita, Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences, UCSF and Editor Emeritus, Tobacco Control .

The Smoking Cessation Leadership Center at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) is hosting this live webinar.

Learning Objectives: By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

1. Discuss the broad concept of a tobacco endgame and how its definition differs from tobacco control
2. Name two ways in which cessation services are synergistic with endgame policies
3. Identify tobacco industry strategies that undermine endgame goals and consider how cessation programs can apply knowledge about the tobacco industry in motivating and supporting cessation

Register now!

Participants who join the live session on September 9, 2025, can earn one hour of free credit. Instructions on how to claim credit will be provided via a post-webinar email.

The Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) are providing continuing education credit through UCSF's accreditation. UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM.

Questions about this webinar and the available continuing education credits can be directed to Jennifer.Matekuare@ucsf.edu.

Wednesday Oct. 1, 2025 statewide virtual coalition meeting

10:00 AM - Noon Coalition Meeting

Noon - 1:00 PM Open discussion & networking

This meeting is for Washington Breathes coalition members, partner organizations, and interested allies. This will be a virtual meeting so that everyone across the state can participate.

More information will be shared closer to the date via the coalition's email list. Or contact organizer@washingtonbreathes.com for more information.