• Blue Cross of Idaho Foundation for Health Inc. (Boise, Idaho): The proposed project will develop and evaluate an innovative touch-screen program to reduce smoking prevalence by hospitalized patients in rural communities.

• City of Bethlehem Health Bureau (Bethlehem, Pa.): This project will establish and assess the prevalence of waterpipe smoking among the Arab community in the Lehigh Valley, and develop prevention and cessation strategies based on the assessment.

• Emory University (Atlanta, Ga): The Tobacco Control Network will assist state health departments in developing strategies to implement comprehensive smoke-free air laws through tailored technical assistance, resources and education.

• HiTops, Inc. (Princeton, N.J.): This program will equip people ages 18-24 with tools for smoking cessation via bilingual, technology-based services.

• Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Agency (Indianapolis, Ind.): This group will implement grassroots and viral marketing approaches to establish smoke-free workplaces for musicians, entertainers, and restaurant/bar staff in Indiana.

• Lane County Public Health Services (Eugene, Ore.): Lane County will develop and implement a program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) clinic providers designed to increase provider counseling practices and decrease tobacco use and relapse among low-income pregnant and postpartum women.

• Tenderloin Health "TLH" (San Francisco, Calif.): TLH will assist homeless individuals and individuals living with HIV/AIDS with a smoking cessation program in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.

• Teton Youth & Family Services (Jackson, Wyo.): The program will develop a sustainable coalition of statewide parties to secure a University of Wyoming (UW) policy which prohibits spit tobacco sponsorship and sampling at any UW event, club, or fraternity, and sales of spit tobacco on campus. The coalition will also assist UW in finding long-term alternative funding for rodeo events.

• University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Cancer Center (Aurora, Colo.): This project aims to eliminate disparities related to spit tobacco use in Colorado by creating a statewide, Web-based surveillance tool designed to capture spit tobacco use trends; social and cultural norms that support use of spit tobacco; product marketing and sales practices; tobacco industry sponsorship of local events; prevention and cessation resources; and policies and practices.

• University of Maine System acting through the University of Maine System (Bangor, Maine): The program aims to eliminate disparities in access to online tobacco prevention and cessation resources for Maine's disabled adults.

• University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine (Las Vegas, Nev.): The WorkOUT program targets 18-to-24-year-olds at their work sites (such as fast food restaurants, movie theaters, construction sites, retail stores and malls) to provide tobacco education and cessation information, brief intervention counseling and free, comprehensive oral cancer and dental screenings.

• Youth Leadership Institute (San Francisco, Calif.): This pilot project will establish an intergenerational community coalition to counter predatory tobacco marketing and sales tactics in disadvantaged neighborhoods in the Bayview Hunters Point, Mission District, Potrero Hill and South of Market areas of southeast San Francisco.

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