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 ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health [Recommended] Description: Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos. (ash.org.uk) |
| A Smokefree World Description: Personal page of Robert Starkey. (geocities.com) |
| Action In The War Against Big Tobacco Description: Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do. (cleanlungs.com) |
| Action on Smoking and Health - Canada Description: Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention. (ash.ca) |
| Advocacy Info: Tobacco Description: Information from the American College of Cheest Physicians on tobacco advocacy. (chestnet.org) |
| Advocacy Institute: Tobacco Control Project Description: Supports research, education, communication, training and advocacy for tobacco control and a smoke-free society. (advocacy.org) |
| Advocating for the Public's Health Description: Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care. (commed.uchc.edu) |
| Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change Description: Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates. (thepraxisproject.org) |
| Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education Description: Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action. (alcase.org) |
| Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health Description: Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers. (bcn.boulder.co.us) |
| Altria Means Tobacco Description: Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria. (altriameanstobacco.com) |
| American Lung Association Action Network Description: How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy. (lungaction.org) |
| Anti-Smoke Japan Description: English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan. (anti-smoke-jp.com) |
| AntiSmokingAds.org Description: Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research. (antismokingads.org) |
| ASAP911Tobacco Description: Individual advocate in Kentucky. (asap911tobacco.com) |
| ASH Australia Description: Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places. (ashaust.org.au) |
| ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control Description: Programs of the U.S. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to raise the visibility of tobacco prevention and control issues among state health officials and their senior staff. (astho.org) |
| Big Tobacco Sucks Description: Campaign against Transnational Tobacco mobilizes students to use the investment power of their universities to challenge the global tobacco industry's violation of human rights, public health, and the environment; site requires Flash. (bigtobaccosucks.org) |
| Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide Description: A comprehensive guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate by Dr. Larry Breed, DrPH covers dozens of topics and outlines activism responses to tobacco, with an emphasis on knowledge before action. (tobacco.org) |
| British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies Description: The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has developed strategy for dealing with the tobacco industry and its allies by using their stock to challenge issues through shareholder resolutions. (bmj.bmjjournals.com) |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids Description: Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobacco companies use to entice youth as their new customers. (tobaccofreekids.org) |
| Cigarette Litter Description: Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. (cigarettelitter.org) |
| Connecticut Stop Tobacco-Save Kids Description: Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less. (ctstoptobacco-savekids.com) |
| Consumer Voice: Tobacco Description: Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India. (consumer-voice.org) |
| Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively Description: Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world. (essentialaction.org) |
| Critical Analysis of FDA Tobacco Legislation Description: Analysis of S2461 reveals critical flaws, concludes this legislation benefits the tobacco industry more than public health. (notobaccobailout.org) |
| Don't Pardon Big Tobacco Description: Allows anyone concerned about the tobacco industry's practice of marketing to kids to send an instant fax to President Bush telling him not to weaken the US government's lawsuit against tobacco companies. (tfk.grassroots.com) |
| Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization Description: May 1997 report from CorpWatch. (corpwatch.radicaldesigns.org) |
| Emerging Tobacco Hazards in China Description: In Chinese and English. (ctsu.ox.ac.uk) |
| EMRO Tobacco Free Initiative Homepage Description: World Health Organization initiative on tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) provides posters and factsheets on smoking in English and Arabic, Islamic rules and Christian views on smoking. (emro.who.int) |
| Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco Description: Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canda with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. (essentialaction.org) |
| European Network for Smoking Prevention Description: ENSP is a European network for smoking prevention active in tobacco contol in Europe. (ensp.org) |
| FCTC Now! Description: Provides a way for invdividuals and groups to express their support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. (fctcnow.org) |
| Feel Free to Say No Description: EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages. (feel-free.info) |
| Fight With Fact Description: Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco. (fightwithfact.com) |
| Filter Online Description: A tobacco advocacy newsletter for central and eastern European countries, published by the Hungarian Health Center. (filter.tobinfo.org) |
| Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization Description: Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco. (nosmoking.ws) |
| Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz Description: Covers the Brown and Williamson papers, how they got to Glantz, what we've learned from them about the tobacco industry, how the industry tried to intimidate Glantz and UCSF to suppress them and why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not. (pbs.org) |
| Get Outraged Description: "Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary citizens get involved in the fight against Big Tobacco." (getoutraged.com) |
| Give Tobacco The Boot! Description: Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos. (givetobaccotheboot.org) |
| GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network Description: A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver. (globalink.org) |
| Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland Description: Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Switzerland. (apha.confex.com) |
| Grand Unification Press Description: Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking". (grandupress.com) |
| Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses Description: An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper. (grimreaper.org) |
| Health Canada: Tobacco Description: Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations. (hc-sc.gc.ca) |
| Health Promotion: Global Perspectives Description: Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally. (healthpromotionjournal.com) |
| INFACT Description: National grassroots organization founded in 1977, best known for its successful Nestle and GE boycott campaigns. Features information on the tobacco industry, explodes the myths pushed by tobacco industry PR (e.g. "smoking is an adult custom"), and invites action on a new boycott of the tobacco industry. (infact.org) |
| International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) Description: Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls. (inwat.org) |
| International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco Description: News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials. (ingcat.org) |
| Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. Description: Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider' (jeffreywigand.com) |
| Join the Joe Chemo Campaign! Description: Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event. (joechemo.org) |
| Kids Before Profits Description: Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco. (tfk.grassroots.com) |
| Licensed to Kill, Inc. Description: Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money. (licensedtokill.biz) |
| Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board Description: Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco. (lcltfb.org) |
| Making it UNCOOL Description: Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products. (washingtonmonthly.com) |
| MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco Description: Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, and medical costs due to smoking. (mascotcoalition.org) |
| MASSPIRG: Tough On Tobacco Description: Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives. (masspirg.org) |
| Michigan Smoke-Free Dining Act Petition Drive Description: Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan. (smokefreediningpetition.com) |
| Mobilizing the Gay and Lesbian Community Against Tobacco Description: Short item on community-based organization against tobacco promotion. (communityfocus.org) |
| Motherjones.com - See For Yourself: The Spiked PSA Description: A Quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California until it was pulled by the governor. (motherjones.com) |
| NAAAPI: Tobacco Control Advocacy Description: The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI) has worked since 1990 to reduce the effects that the tobacco industry has had on the African American community and communities of color. (naaapi.org) |
| National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) Description: Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada. (ncth.ca) |
| New York State College Alliance Against Tobacco Description: Network of student coalitions at colleges and universities throughout New York State educating and advocating against tobacco and for smokefree dorms, buildings, and events. (nyscaat.org) |
| Nicotine Victims Description: Focus is on tobacco product addiction. (nicotinevictims.com) |
| NO PATSY Homepage - National Organization of People Attacking Tobacco Sales to Youth Description: Canada's Tobacco Activist Headquarters - Top stories from NO PATSY - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars, the battles, the lawsuits, the government actions. (healthwatcher.net) |
| NYPIRG: Tobacco Description: Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do. (nypirg.org) |
| Philip Morris Can't Hide Description: Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action. (tfk.grassroots.com) |
| Philip Morris Info Sheet Description: From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus. (stanford.edu) |
| Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada Description: Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada. (smoke-free.ca) |
| PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign Description: Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest. (pirg.org) |
| Prescription for Change Description: "To help a persistent cough, go to aisle 8. To get a persistent cough, go to aisle 14" Advocacy to urge pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products. (rxforchange.org) |
| Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation Description: ASH publication. (ash.org) |
| Public Citizen: Tobacco Description: Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation. (citizen.org) |
| RI Tobacco Control Network Description: The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training. (ritobaccocontrolnet.com) |
| Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page Description: Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco. (sklaroff.globalink.org) |
| San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project Description: The San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project fights the pervasive infuence of the tobacco industry in our community. "We used to pick it -- now they want us to smoke it!" (polarisinc.com) |
| SIF Research: Tobacco's Changing Context Description: Explores the different approaches that shareholders can take in formulating a response to tobacco, such as divestment, modification of investments and shareholder resolutions. A sampling of institutions, including pension funds, universities, insurance companies and foundations, along with their responses, is included. (socialinvest.org) |
| Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry Description: Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulation of music to promote smoking. (kcstar.com) |
| Smokefree Advocacy Description: ANR and its members are involved in numerous clean indoor air campaigns around the nation. ANR action alerts give you an opportunity to take steps to protect your health and the health of your community. (no-smoke.org) |
| Smokefree.net Description: A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces. (smokefree.net) |
| Smoking and Islam Description: Asserts that Islam forbids smoking. (geocities.com) |
| Smokinghurts.com Description: Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research. (smokinghurts.com) |
| StatesOnTheTake.com Description: Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry. (statesonthetake.com) |
| Students for Tobacco Reduction Description: Student group at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. (tobaccoreduction.com) |
| Students Oppose Smoking Description: Organization founded by student smokers and non-smokers dedicated to easing the problem of student tobacco use in Montgomery County, Maryland. (sosnow.org) |
| Taking Down the Marlboro Man Description: Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC. (boston.com) |
| Taking on Tobacco Imperialism Description: Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. (multinationalmonitor.org) |
| Tarbox, Barb Description: Victim of smoking-related cancer. Led crusade across Canada to stop children from starting to smoke. Includes story, short commercials she recorded, transcripts of those commercials, and donation information. (tobacco.aadac.com) |
| The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues Description: Award-winning site examines non-health related tobacco industry fraud and false claims issues, presenting authentic tobacco company documents to illustrate tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and claims. Features grassroots programs and interactive content. Offers a related book for publication. (rxshuster.org) |
| The Syrian Center For Tobacco Studies Description: Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria (scts-sy.org) |
| The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage? Description: Speech given by Dr. Koop in September 1998. Dr. Koop found the real scandal at the time was Big Tobacco's power in Congress. He gives his reasons for outrage at that scandal, in moving and vivid terms. (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| The Tobacco Wars American Style Description: Canadian physician Terry Polevoy looks at the U.S. tobacco scene. (healthwatcher.net) |
| Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition Description: Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada. (timiskaminghu.com) |
| Tobacco and the European Union Description: ASH-UK factsheet presents information about smoking prevalence, tobacco-related deaths, and tobacco control policies. (ash.org.uk) |
| Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 Description: Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. (medicolegal.tripod.com) |
| Tobacco Control Description: Research paper. Extensive and fully documented look at Arizona's Proposition 200. Concludes: "health advocates in Arizona successfully fought tobacco industry attempts to divert the health education funds and pass preemptive legislation. But the executive branch limited the scope of the program to adolescents and pregnant women, and prevented it from attacking the tobacco industry or focusing on secondhand smoke." (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Tobacco Control Supersite Description: Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia. (tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au) |
| Tobacco Free Initiative Description: World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco. (who.int) |
| Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan Description: Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion. (emro.who.int) |
| Tobacco Free U Description: Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation. (tobaccofreeu.org) |
| Tobacco in Developing Countries: Dream Scenario or Shrill Wake-Up Call? Description: A slide show countering some of the common myths related to tobacco and developing countries. (idrc.ca) |
| Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East Description: Report from the WHO Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents tobacco industry front groups, lobbying, PR campaigns, spying on tobacco control organizations, and delaying or blocking anti-tobacco measures in the region. (emro.who.int) |
| Tobacco Money in Politics: Over $25 million Description: Common cause study. (commoncause.org) |
| Tobacco Post - Canada's best anti-tobacco site Description: Canadian coverage of tobacco wars. Covers friends and opponents of the industry in Canada. (healthwatcher.net) |
| Tobacco Survivors United Description: A network of survivors, families, and friends of men and women who have overcome the damanges of tobacco products; informs the public and advocates for a smokefree society. (tobaccosurvivorsunited.org) |
| Tobacco To 21 Description: Ohio-based organization; advocates making 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco. Describes tobacco history; industry promotion; tobacco and health; addiction; costs of tobacco use; use by children; and public policy. (tobacco21.org) |
| Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles Description: Charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. By Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach. (ucpress.edu) |
| Tough on Drugs -- Weak on Tobacco Description: Article in medical journal outlines how and why the government of Australia does little about tobacco, and government funding for tobacco control is small compared to government funding of other public health issues. (mja.com.au) |
| Virginia GASP home page Description: Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct. (gasp.org) |
| Wallgreens.Com Description: A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products. (Wallgreens.com) |
| WorkSmokefree.com Description: Advocates for smokefree workplaces in Oregon. (worksmokefree.com) |
| World No Tobacco Day Ecards Description: Send an ecard to encourage someone you know to take action against tobacco use. (wntd.com) |
