From: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 12:27 PM To: Owens, Kelly S (LHD

- Madison Co) Cc: Hawkins, Ruth R (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: RE: P.O. for ads in Berea Citizen Attachments: image001.jpg Thanks Kelly, will do. In the future, if I am the one arranging for an ad Ill take responsibility for submitting a non-routine requisition to the program director and completing a PO. That should keep it less complicated. cg

From: Owens, Kelly S (LHD - Madison Co) Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 11:49 AM To: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Cc: Hawkins, Ruth R (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: RE: P.O. for ads in Berea Citizen

I never filled out purchase order for the ads. Please create one 836/125

Kelly S. Owens, MPH, CHES Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Specialist/Health Educator II Madison County Health Department 1001 Ace Drive Berea, KY 40403 (859) 228-2043 Web Address: www.madison-co-ky-health.org

Need Help Quitting? http://www.becomeanex.org/

ky_quitline_logo_2010

file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail

From: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:07 AM To: Owens, Kelly S (LHD - Madison Co); Dixon, Marvin (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: P.O. for ads in Berea Citizen

Hello Kelly and Marvin, Angie just brought me the bill for two ads the environmental fee increase notice and the Clean Indoor Air Regulation amendments invitation for public comment. Do you have POs for these? Or do I need to create them? Thanks, cg

Christie L. Green Development and Communications Public Information Officer Madison County Health Dept. 214 Boggs Lane Richmond, KY 40476-1208 859-623-7312 cell 859-661-0853 www.madison-co-ky-health.org <http://www.madison-co-ky-health.org> "...what it really takes to change the world isn't so much wealth or power as creativity, determination and passion." Nicholas Kristof Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

From: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Sent: Monday, December 13, 2010 11:27 AM
file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

To: Owens, Kelly S (LHD - Madison Co) Subject: FW: Tobacco Program Ad Hello Kelly, Heres the price for the Richmond ad it ran in Sundays paper, as well as a local brief on A2 in Saturdays paper. I will forward those in interoffice mail Thanks, cg

From: Classified Advertising [mailto:classifieds@richmondregister.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:15 PM To: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: Tobacco Program Ad

Hi, Christie -I have received your ad and have scheduled it to run Sunday, December 12th, as you requested. Your total is $133.35. I will forward a tear sheet for your reference. If you should have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. I'll be happy to help. Thank you. -Kathy Smith Classified Advertising Executive Richmond Register P.O. Box 99 Richmond, KY 40476-0099 Phone: 859-624-6681 Fax: 859-623-2337 From: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 12:25 PM To: 'Lorie Love Hailey' Subject: clean indoor air public comments legal advert Attachments: Press Release - Clean Indoor Air Regulation public comment.docx Hello Lorie, Attached is the language for the clean indoor amendments public comment period. We would like to run it on Sunday, December 12th. Please ask the ad department to send me a cost via email so that I can do a requisition. Also, it will help us if they stipulate tobacco program on the billing invoice.

I appreciate your help with this.

file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

Have a good weekend, cg

PS Ronicas flu article was very informative with lots of good information. I hope all is going well for her.

Christie L. Green Development and Communications Public Information Officer Madison County Health Dept. 214 Boggs Lane Richmond, KY 40476-1208 859-623-7312 cell 859-661-0853 www.madison-co-ky-health.org <http://www.madison-co-ky-health.org> "...what it really takes to change the world isn't so much wealth or power as creativity, determination and passion." Nicholas Kristof Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

From: Farris, Leslie D (LHD-Madison Co) Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:59 PM To: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: RE: E-Cigarettes and Smoke-free Policies Sounds just fine to me. Have a good evening

From: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:54 PM To: Hensley, Martin (LHD-Madison Co ); Farris, Leslie D (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: FW: E-Cigarettes and Smoke-free Policies Importance: High

file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

I think we shouldnt respond to this as web contacts. Kelly and Ruth can sort it out. I will mention it at branch chiefs in the morning to make sure that Nancy is aware of it. Thanks, cg

Christie L. Green Development and Communications Public Information Officer Madison County Health Dept. 214 Boggs Lane Richmond, KY 40476-1208 859-623-7312 cell 859-661-0853 www.madisoncountyhealthdept.org <http://www.madison-co-ky-health.org> "...what it really takes to change the world isn't so much wealth or power as creativity, determination and passion." Nicholas Kristof Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.

NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This e-mail, including any attachments, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential information that is legally privileged and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are notified that any review, use, disclosure, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message.

From: Elaine Keller [mailto:ekeller@casaa.org] Sent: Monday, March 21, 2011 5:51 PM To: Owens, Kelly S (LHD - Madison Co) Cc: ejhahn00@uky.edu; Owens, Kelly S (LHD - Madison Co); board@casaa.org; mchd@madisoncountyhealthdept.org Subject: E-Cigarettes and Smoke-free Policies

Dear Ms. Owens:

The Consumer Advocates for Smoke-free Alternatives Association (CASAA) is pleased to be able to provide you with information regarding research on electronic cigarettes. CASAA is a non-profit organization that works to ensure the availability of reduced harm alternatives to smoking and to provide smokers and non-smokers alike with truthful information about such alternatives.

The document E-cigarettes and Smoke-free Policies posted on the Madison County Health Department web site
file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

(http://www.madisoncountyhealthdept.org/Documents/Community/One-pager%20ecigarettes%20and%20Secondhand%20Smoke%20EH%20112110.pdf) contains many inaccuracies. Only one of the sources (Trtchounian et al, 2010) describes the findings of research conducted on electronic cigarettes. The remaining sources include a press release, opinion pieces, and research conducted on smoke. This document appears to be based on a document of the same name produced by the Tobacco Policy Research Program at the University of Kentucky, so I am copying Ellen Hahn on this message as well.

Bullet points in the document regarding the FDAs testing of 18 cartridges are based on an FDA press conference, rather than the on the laboratory report issued by the scientist who conducted the testing. http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Drugs/ScienceResearch/UCM173250.pdf

Inaccurate statements were lifted verbatim from the press release, e.g. they contain carcinogens and toxic chemicals such as diethylene glycol, an ingredient used in antifreeze. The truth of the matter is that the 8 nanograms of tobaccospecific nitrosamines (TSNAs) found in the liquid of a high dose cartridge are no more likely to cause cancer than the 8 nanograms of the very same TSNAs in a 21-mg Nicoderm patch. No TSNAs were detected in the vapor. There was only one potentially toxic chemical found, again in the liquid but not the vapor. However, the quantity of diethylene glycol (DEG) that the FDA measured was 0.01 ml -- thousands of times below the toxic level of 1 ml per kg. Screening for tobacco-specific impurities in the vapor was negative except for a non-toxic quantity of ?-Nicotyrine.

When you compare the lab report to statements in the press release, it becomes obvious that the FDA found nothing in the e-cigarettes tested that would endanger health. However, the Agency used inflammatory wording in its press conference to make it appear as though the using an e-cigarette is more dangerous than continuing to smoke. That is egregious behavior on the part of officials of an Agency charged with protection of public health.

Henningfield and Zaatari might suspect that e-cigarettes emit carcinogens, but the scientists who actually studied the vapor have found no carcinogens--or any other harmful substance--in vapor. One such scientist is Dr. Murray Laugesen of Health New Zealand who has been studying e-cigarettes for over four years. He states, Lacking any active ingredient or any gaseous products of combustion, the PG mist or smoke is not harmful to bystanders. More than one researcher has found that e-cigarette vapor contains only one-tenth the amount of nicotine as a puff of tobacco smoke, and most of the nicotine is absorbed by the user, rather than exhaled.

Sliemans research was conducted on smoke residue. Including bullet points that imply Sliemans study results are applicable to e-cigarette vapor is a gross misrepresentation of the science.

In 1990, there were 43.8 million smokers. Twenty years later that number stands at over 46 million smokers. The smoking prevalence statistics and the smoking cessation rates tell us quite clearly that a more effective approach is needed. In Harm Reduction in Nicotine Addiction: Helping Smokers Who Cant Quit, a 2007 report by the Tobacco Advisory Group for the Royal College of Physicians, the authors discuss the relative harm of different nicotine products. They state that many lives could be saved and much morbidity prevented if we recommended that smokers substitute less hazardous alternatives for smoking.

file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

All of the smoking cessation programs in existence today are based on the concept of imposing nicotine abstinence--an approach that does not work for the overwhelming majority of smokers. When used as directed, to wean down and off nicotine, the FDA-approved products have a 7% success rate at 6 months, dropping to 5% at one year, and only 2% after 20 months. (Moore D, Aveyard P, Connock, M, Wang D, Fry-Smith A, Barton P: Effectiveness and safety of nicotine replacement therapy assisted reduction to stop smoking: systematic review and meta-analysis. BMJ 338:b1024 2009.)

The success rates reported in surveys of e-cigarette users indicate that the harm reduction approach is much more effective than the nicotine abstinence approach. In studies limited to a single product, success rates of 31% have been reported (Siegel, et al. Electronic Cigarettes as a Smoking-Cessation Tool: Results from an Online Survey. American Journal of Preventive Medicine. http://www.ajpm-online.net/webfiles/images/journals/amepre/AMEPRE3013.pdf).

Im sure you will agree that a 6-month point prevalence rate of smoking abstinence of 31% is superior to a 7% rate of smoking abstinence.

Now what happens if you dont limit users to a single product, allow them to find the combination of hardware and liquid that works best for them, and provide advice and assistance by an online community of experienced users? Success rates soar. A survey of 270 e-cigarette consumers (303 before excluding possible duplicates) found that 100% smoked before starting to use the e-cigarette, 92% had tried to stop smoking63% trying 4 or more times to do so, and 87% had tried pharmaceutical nicotine products. Only 1% reported that pharmaceutical products helped them to stop smoking permanently. How well did the e-cigarette work? Only 3% were using the product in addition to smoking, 15% were using them as a partial replacement for smoking, and an astonishing 82% were using them as a complete replacement for smoking.

Which would save more lives? If a range of 2% to 7% of smokers can quit nicotine altogether, or if a range of 31% to 82% of smoker are able to abstain from smoking but use a less hazardous alternative source of nicotine?

In the case of Smoking Everywhere and Sottera (dba NJOY) versus the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the Honorable Richard J. Leon, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia stated that the FDA failed to provide any evidence that the products have harmed anyone. Since that opinion was issued, millions more of the products have been sold; and to date there have been zero reports of any serious adverse event. Side effects reported are no different from those reported with use of FDA-approved nicotine products.

Both the lower court and the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia have issued opinions that, as long as vendors make no claims that electronic cigarettes can cure or treat a disease, the FDA cannot regulate the products as a drug or drug-delivery device combination under the Food Drug and Cosmetics Act. If electronic cigarettes are marketed without health claims, the FDA can use the authority granted under the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act to regulate e-cigarettes as tobacco products.

file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

There is no evidence that vapor presents any sort of danger to bystanders. In fact the same surveys that report exceptional rates of smoking abstinence with e-cigarette use also report that more than 90% of users are experiencing health improvements. Given that fact, how could the vapor they exhale possibly endanger the health of bystanders?

When continuing smokers see electronic cigarette users staying in a nice, climate-controlled environment while they are exiled outside to the elements, this observation can serve as a powerful incentive. They may think, Why not give e-cigarettes a try? Many e-cigarette users at first had no intention of quitting smoking. But once they began using an e-cigarette, they no longer had any urge to smoke.

CASAA has revised E-cigarettes and Smoke-free Policies to provide a more accurate picture of the scientific facts about e-cigarettes. A copy is attached. I have sent a printed copy of this document to members of the Madison County Board of Health. Feel free to contact me with any questions you might have.

Very truly yours,

Elaine Keller CASAA Vice President http://www.casaa.org <http://www.casaa.org/>

(703) 244-8692 From: Classified Advertising [classifieds@richmondregister.com] Sent: Friday, December 10, 2010 3:15 PM To: Green, Christie L (LHD-Madison Co) Subject: Tobacco Program Ad Hi, Christie -I have received your ad and have scheduled it to run Sunday, December 12th, as you requested. Your total is $133.35. I will forward a tear sheet for your reference. If you should have any questions, don't hesitate to contact me. I'll be happy to help. Thank you. -Kathy Smith Classified Advertising Executive Richmond Register P.O. Box 99 Richmond, KY 40476-0099 Phone: 859-624-6681 Fax: 859-623-2337
file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]

file:///C|/Users/Gregory%20Conley/Desktop/FOIA/Results/MadisonCounty/FOIA/email%20-%20Christie%20Green2.txt[7/29/2011 10:49:07 AM]