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      new window Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health  [Recommended]   Description: Massive UK scientific report. (official-documents.co.uk)
new window UCSF Tobacco Control Archives  [Recommended]   Description: California has been a leader in tobacco control; UCSF maintains an archive of important documents, including many formerly secret tobacco industry internal memos. (library.ucsf.edu)
new window Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) Description: U.S. legal-action antismoking organization. Resources include information on health effects, quitting, advocacy programs and techniques, smoking statistics, and U.S. antismoking groups. (ash.org)
new window Alberta Tobacco Reduction Strategy Description: Information about tobacco, spit tobacco, smoking, prevention, quitting, and what Alberta Canada is doing to help. (tobacco.aadac.com)
new window AMSA: Comprehensive List of Tobacco Texts Description: American Medical Students Association list of tobacco books and articles, organized into top recommended readings, women and tobacco, historical readings, international tobacco, area/state specific tobacco, and other tobacco readings of interest. (amsa.org)
new window Artful Truth Description: Artful Truth-Healthy Propaganda Arts Project aims to reduce tobacco use through art education; gallery shows images created by students. (artfultruth.fiu.edu)
new window BBC News | Smoking Description: Collection of stories from the BBC. (news.bbc.co.uk)
new window Big Tobacco Looks for a Clean Getaway Description: Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to the 1997 proposed deal with the tobacco industry. (multinationalmonitor.org)
new window Big Tobacco Sucks Description: Site requires Flash. (bigtobaccosucks.com)
new window Bmj.com Collected Resources: Smoking Description: Includes hundreds of papers, news stories, clinical reviews, letters, debates, and editorials about health effects and public policies. (bmj.bmjjournals.com)
new window British Medical Journal, 5 August 2000 Description: Tobacco is the theme of this issue; articles on health policy, lung cancer, passive smoking, tobacco dependence, tobacco litigation. (bmj.com)
new window C-Health - Associations Library: Smoking Description: FAQ from Canoe-Health covers 50 most commonly asked questions on smoking and health. (canoe.ca)
new window Call - Tobacco Use Description: The "Tobacco" section of a language analysis project at Ohio University. Definitions of terms, links to anti-tobacco and pro-tobacco sites. (ohiou.edu)
new window Canadian Cancer Society: Tobacco Information Description: Health effects of cigarettes, tobacco products and cancer, secondhand smoke, children and secondhand smoke, women and tobacco, tobacco statistics. (cancer.ca)
new window Cancer Council of South Australia -- Tobacco Description: Information sheets for students, schools, and publications on tobacco, passive smoking, smoking and disease, addiction, quitting. (cancersa.org.au)
new window Canoe-Health: Smoking Description: Health news and features from C-Health in Canada. (chealth.canoe.ca)
new window CDC Health Topic: Tobacco Description: Information from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (cdc.gov)
new window CDC's tobacco stats -- state by state Description: Center for Disease Control has hosted a database that you can look up your state's tobacco use, break it down by cigarette/cigar/pipe/spit tobacco, and get lots of other stats. (www2.cdc.gov)
new window Doctors and Tobacco: Medicine's Big Challenge Description: Action manual for medical associations and their members, available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. (bma.org.uk)
new window Documents on Tobacco, Nicotine, Smoking, Cigarettes Description: Tobacco documents, secret documents, tobacco sites, smoking-related news, addresses, history, movie and book lists, health information, quit-smoking, spit tobacco. (tobacco.org)
new window Dying to Quit Description: Book on smoking. (bob.nap.edu)
new window eBMJ -- Collected Resources: Smoking Description: Recent articles on smoking from the British Medical Journal . (bmj.com)
new window Economic Opportunity Institute - Health Care Policy Description: Contains several factsheets and reports on tobacco, its costs to Washington State, its marketing, and its effects. (econop.org)
new window Educating for Life Description: Reflections on health education and cancer prevention. (healthlink.mcw.edu)
new window eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction Description: Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section. (emedicine.com)
new window Engle Trial News Description: Large collection of articles, notes, and commentary on the Engle trial in Florida. (gasp.org)
new window Fact Sheets About Smoking and Tobacco Description: Collected by the Nonsmokers Movement of Australia. (nsma.org.au)
new window Film Ideas: Smoking and Substance Abuse Description: Instructional films and videos on tobacco and substance abuse. (filmideas.com)
new window FTC: Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco Products - Public Comments Description: Letters from the American Lung Association, American Medical Association, and dozens of other health organizations regarding FTC's role in reporting and analysis of tobacco products. (ftc.gov)
new window GASP of Colorado Education Center Description: Tobacco information resources ranging from the costs to society to the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke. (gaspforair.org)
new window GLOBALink: Secret Documents from the Minnesota Depository Description: Papers reviewing industry internal documents: Tobacco industry campaign against advertising bans in the 1980's; Industry recruitment of scientific experts; industry attitudes revealed by editing; and files relevant to women. (globalink.org)
new window GLOBALink: Selected Images Description: Anti-smoking posters, ads, animated GIFs, videos. (globalink.org)
new window Go Smokefree! Health Canada Description: Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm associated with smoking and provides a rich set of resources for this: information, help, news, spotlight on the tobacco industry, and quitting tips. (gosmokefree.ca)
new window Health & Prevention Videos Description: Videos for instructional use or presentations; includes "Selling Addiction" and "Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered". (gpn.unl.edu)
new window Health 20/20: Tobacco Essays Description: Essays on tobacco, tobacco control, tobacco promotion, and patterns of use. (health20-20.org)
new window Health Care Information Resources on Smoking Description: From McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, some health, policy, and activism links on smoking and tobacco. (www-hsl.mcmaster.ca)
new window Health Education Inc. Research Promotion Prevention Description: Tobacco prevention and education for Nebraska children and communities. News, legislation, and art. (healtheducation.org)
new window Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke Description: Factsheets on tobacco, secondhand smoke, the tobacco industry, and cigarette sales. (cleanlungs.com)
new window House of Commons - Smoking and Health - Second Report Description: UK scientific report on smoking in Britain, awareness of the health effects of active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, and the tobacco industry in Britain. (parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk)
new window How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works Description: Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much. (howstuffworks.com)
new window India Tobacco News Extracts Description: Cancer Patients Aid Association hosts news stories on tobacco in India. (cpaaindia.org)
new window indiacancer.org Description: Tobacco, smoking and cancer; children and tobacco use; involuntary (secondhand) smoking; women and smoking; quitting; references. (indiacancer.org)
new window Indiana Prevention Resource Center: Tobacco Resources Description: Fact sheets and lots of links. (iprc.indiana.edu)
new window Information on Drugs of Abuse: Nicotine Description: Resources on nicotine addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. (nida.nih.gov)
new window It's Your Life Description: Health promotion pamphlet created by Monash University medical students uses humor with a spoof TV game show approach to smoking. (med.monash.edu.au)
new window Leave The Pack Behind Description: A campus smoking program which provides information for smokers and non-smokers. (leavethepackbehind.org)
new window Making Smoking History Description: Article features public health worker who challenges the conventional view of smoking as an individual problem, and makes the case for tobacco as a societal health problem. (whsc.emory.edu)
new window MEDLINE: Tobacco Uue - Smoking and Spit Tobacco Description: Topic in MEDLINE's medical encyclopedia covers effects, chemical componenents, diseases caused, quitting tobacco, with 4 poster-quality illustrations. (nlm.nih.gov)
new window MEDLINEplus: Smoking Description: Medical emphasis; factsheets, clinical trials, prevention/screening, news, organizations, statistics, particular populations. (nlm.nih.gov)
new window Men and smoking Description: Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction. (menstuff.org)
new window Minnesota Institute of Public Health: Tobacco Related Issues Description: Resources and links. (miph.org)
new window Missouri Department of Health: Smoking and Tobacco Description: Factsheets and reports on tobacco prevention, clean in door air, costs of tobacco products, youth tobacco use, and county-level studies; most in PDF or Word format. (health.state.mo.us)
new window MTCP Reports Description: Reports on youth smoking prevalence in Massachusetts smoking attributable mortality, morbidity, and economic costs; designing an effective tobacco control program; tobacco advertising on storefronts. (mass.gov)
new window National African American Tobacco Prevention Network Description: A national network of Black tobacco-control and health promotion activists. (naatpn.org)
new window National Conference of State Legislatures Description: Secondhand smoke laws by state; miscellaneous laws pertaining to tobacco by state; smokefree state capitols; youth access to tobacco; Healthy People 2010 objectives; various publications and resources on tobacco, smoking, and cigarettes. (ncsl.org)
new window New Jersey Tobacco Use Research Program Description: Monitors tobacco use trends over time in response to tobacco control activities. (www2.umdnj.edu)
new window Nicotine Addiction in Britain Description: Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations. (rcplondon.ac.uk)
new window Nicotine Addiction to Disease: Growing Up With the Tobacco Industry Description: Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute materials covers history and consequences of tobacco use. (yale.edu)
new window NIDA Research Report - Nicotine Addiction Description: National Institute on drug abuse report on nicotine covers addiction, extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine works, effects of long-term nicotine exposure, treatment of nicotine addiction, gender differences in smoking. (nida.nih.gov)
new window NIEHS 9th Report on Carcinogens Description: Evaluation of substances by scientists from the National Toxicology Program has listing that includes Environmental Tobacco Smoking, Tobacco Smoke, and Smokeless Tobacco. (ehis.niehs.nih.gov)
new window North Carolina Prevention Partners Description: Tobacco control news and facts in the state. (ncpreventionpartners.org)
new window NoSmokingArt Description: Art depicting anti-smoking messages. (members.tripod.com)
new window Not To Kids! Description: Campaign to educate the community about the Tobacco Control Act of Ontario. (nottokids.ca)
new window Nova Scotia Tobacco Control Online Description: Broad range of tobacco issues including information on health effects, secondhand smoke, quitting, the tobacco industry, youth, and Canada law. (gov.ns.ca)
new window Oregon Public Health Services Description: Tobacco Prevention and Education Program provides information on the program, key partners, the science behind it, legislation and policy initiatives, the secrets, the tools, quitting tobacco, and progress made so far. (ohd.hr.state.or.us)
new window Parliament of Ireland: Report on Health and Smoking Description: Chapters on youth, health effects, economics, nicotine addiction, and secondhand smoke. (irlgov.ie)
new window Patrick Reynolds Description: RJ Reynolds' grandson is a well known anti-smoking advocate and motivational speaker, for grades 7-12. He speaks at community events, school assembly programs and colleges on the dangers of smoking, and influence of tobacco industry advertising campaigns. (tobaccofree.org)
new window Philippe Boucher's Rendez Vous Description: Inverviews with major figures in tobacco control. (tobacco.org)
new window Powerpoint Presentations on Tobacco Description: 18 powerpoint presentations from leading tobacco experts, including tobacco company bar promotions, marketing tobacco to women, economics of tobacco, types and uses of tobacco litigation, US tobacco marketing tobacco outside the US, and teenagers, smoking, and transnational tobacco corporations. (tc.bmjjournals.com)
new window Principal Health News Description: Articles and news summaries on tobacco, cigarettes, spit tobacco, quitting, and secondhand smoke. (principalhealthnews.com)
new window Project Smokeout Description: Dedicated to exposing tobacco industry activity in Texas and around the globe. (projectsmokeout.org)
new window Proposed US Federal Tobacco Legislation Description: Tech Law Journal summary of bills pertaining to tobacco sales and ads on the Internet. (techlawjournal.com)
new window Public Versus Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry Description: From the book The Cigarette Papers, footnoted table documents 30 years of public and private statements made by the tobacco industry regarding nicotine and addiction. (library.ucsf.edu)
new window Pyramid Media: Tobacco Videos Description: Produces and distributes educational videos on smoking, tobacco, and the tobacco industry, from classics like "Death in The West" to recent releases like "Smoke & Mirrors: A History of Denial". (pyramidmedia.com)
new window Resources on Smoking and Big Tobacco Description: Articles on the tobacco industry, state and national elected officials, regulators, the media, and conservative groups. (motherjones.com)
new window Risk Management Internet Services - Tobacco Description: For-pay site, providing subscribers with information about tobacco. (rmis.com)
new window San Francisco Medical Society Online: Substance Abuse and Tobacco Description: Articles on addiction, tobacco, cessation, and progress in treatment. (sfms.org)
new window Science, Tobacco and You Description: Multidisciplinary, multimedia, science curriculum resource that addresses tobacco use and prevention through student questions and answers. (scienceu.fsu.edu)
new window Smoke & Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War Description: Complete online book (370 pages in printed form) covers tobacco history, issues, players, strategy, and industry in Canada. (globalink.org)
new window Smoke and mirrors Description: Large collection of links on smoking and health, marketing of tobacco products, laws and litigation, advocacy and organizations concerned with smoking. (storytellerdesign.com)
new window Smoke Free Jacksonville Description: Dedicated to reducing tobacco use and educating the public in Jacksonville, Florida. (smokefreejacksonville.org)
new window Smoke gets in your eyes Description: Whyfiles on: why is smoking so addictive? Does cigarette advertising influence kids to smoke? And related questions. (whyfiles.org)
new window Smokers Prayer Description: Large list of links and resources compiled by an ex-smokers with COPD. Introduced by her own poem, the Smoker's Prayer. (olivija.com)
new window Smoking and African-Americans Description: Factsheet looks at the impact of tobacco on the African American community. (blackhealthcare.com)
new window Smoking Behaviours of Australian Adults in 1995 Description: Research paper summarizes prevalence, consumption, demographics, trends. (mja.com.au)
new window Smoking From All Sides Description: A simple directory of smoking links and sites, including pro-tobacco and anti-tobacco. (cs.brown.edu)
new window Smoking From All Sides Description: Links to pages for all perspectives of smoking. Includes sites about anti-smoking groups, commentary, health effects, cessation, celebrity smokers, statistics, news, history, and pro-smoking documents. (smokingsides.com)
new window Smoking in Australia Description: Online book provides facts on prevalence, trends, health effects, secondhand smoke, cigarette design and ingredients, smoking in the workplace and public places, costs of tobaccoo, spit tobacco, addiction, cessation, anti-smoking campaigns, the tobacco industry in Australia, women and smoking. (quit.org.au)
new window Smoking Kills Description: Short Break, Long Rest -- anti smoking computer animation to download. Requires Quicktime. (homepage.virgin.net)
new window Smoking kills! Description: In English and Slovenian. Put together by three students from Slovenia. (library.thinkquest.org)
new window Smoking? No! Description: Gateway to information about anti-tobacco and non-smoking information on the Internet world wide. Books, organizations and products. (smoking.no)
new window State of Health Products Description: Anti-tobacco ID tags, T-shirts, posters, buttons, magnets, wall signs, bookmarks, headbands, and the now-obligatory mouse pads. (buttout.com)
new window Submission to Senate Inquiry into the Tobacco Industry - 1994 Description: Shortened version of the "Time for Action" submission by the Non-Smokers' Movement of Australia provides a terse summary of tobacco's effects, marketing, industry influence, public health significance, social response, history. (nsma.org.au)
new window Tar Wars Description: National poster contest for fourth- and fifth-graders on tobacco-free lifestyles. (tarwars.org)
new window The Arents Collection Description: New York Public Library collection said to be the largest and most comprehensive collection in the world on the history, literature, and lore of tobacco. (nypl.org)
new window The Dope on Nicotine Description: NOVA episode on nicotine, addiction, and tobacco products. (pbs.org)
new window The National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Person Description: Advocacy group and center for conducting research, education and training to increase public awareness of the effects of tobacco on older persons and to reduce smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke by older persons. Includes fact sheets with data about smoking among older persons, and information specific for older persons about tobacco-related health problems, smoking cessation, and tobacco settlement funds. (tcsg.org)
new window The Tobacco Epidemic Description: Slides to accompany talk given by Gregg Stave, MD, JD, MPH, covers dimensions of the epidemic, causes, cigarette advertising, lifecycle of a smoker, and changing social norms about tobacco. (ncpreventionpartners.org)
new window The Tobacco Lords Description: Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to tobacco; includes China's Tobacco Wars; Addicting the Young; The Tobacco Lobby; Fighting for Smoke-free Skies; tobacco economics. (multinationalmonitor.org)
new window Tobacco Action Pack Description: Designed to be used by students and contains the latest information from international studies in an easy-to-read format. Covers history and contents of cigarette product, and what it does to the customer. (quit.org.au)
new window Tobacco and Smoking: A Pollak Library Research Guide Description: The Pollack Library at Cal State Fullerton has assembled a list of books, articles, statistics, documents, and online resources on tobacco and smoking. (guides.library.fullerton.edu)
new window Tobacco Control Directory Description: Searchable listing of people and organizations involved in tobacco control, to facilitate and improve communication. (tcdirectory.org)
new window Tobacco Control Links Description: Maintained by Dr Mario R Sammut MD DipHSc, a family doctor from Siggiewi, Malta. (tobaccocontrollinks.homestead.com)
new window Tobacco control resource centre Description: Promotes tobacco control activity among national medical associations; encourages doctors to stop smoking; provides research and improves knowledge of skills in smoking cessation through its information database. (tobacco-control.org)
new window Tobacco Dentistry Program Description: Lecture outlines for tobacco; educadtion program; tobacco and periodontal diseases; tobacco induced and associated oral conditions; spit tobacco; cigar; secondhand smoke; nicotine addiction; stages of quitting; cessation clinical practice guidelines; quitting pamphlets; quitting aids. (www1.umn.edu)
new window Tobacco Education for Low Literacy Readers Description: From First to Last Ash: The History, Economics, and Hazards of Tobacco. Sample pages online; information on ordering. (www2.wgbh.org)
new window Tobacco Factfile Description: Presents key facts and data about tobacco; designed especially for health professionals, policy makers, educators and the media. All content is selected and peer-reviewed by experts in the field. (tobaccofactfile.org)
new window Tobacco in Australia Description: History, smoking rates, deaths from smoking, why people smoke, what people smoke, and regulating tobacco. (quit.org.au)
new window Tobacco Industry Tracking Database Description: Searchable database contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and detailed indexing for over 11,000 articles, news stories, and other materials regarding the tobacco industry, clean indoor air campaigns, and other tobacco policy issues. (tidatabase.org)
new window Tobacco Names Description: Names of people involved in tobacco; some with short descriptions of the involvement; a work in progress. (tobacco.org)
new window Tobacco News and Tobacco Legal Help Description: News on what's happening in the industry; find tobacco attorneys and other tobacco resources. (branchlawfirm.com)
new window Tobacco Road Description: Special project at McGill Medical School. Cigarettes, smoking, quitting, secondhand smoke. (sprojects.mmi.mcgill.ca)
new window Tobacco Smoking Description: College student paper includes examples of cigarette ads, smoking trends in the 1930s and 1940s, and even cigarette etiqette, according to Emily Post. (otal.umd.edu)
new window Tobacco Use Description: From the Mountain States Community Health Project, an online education module on tobacco; covers nicotine addiction, cigarette use by young people, the financial cost and health consequences of tobacco use, spit tobacco and cigars, and how to quit; also online quizzes on the material. (caresproject.org)
new window Tobacco Use Behavior Research Description: Reports and raw data on tobacco products use, prevalence, attitudes, behavior, and media exposure. (ssdc.ucsd.edu)
new window Tobacco Wars Description: Quoatations from "Tobacco Wars" a BBC documentary on the history and politics of tobacco, broadcast in July/August 1999. (ash.org.uk)
new window Tobacco: FTC Reports and Comments Description: Although FTC site, much content furnished from other sources (public input, expert analysis); covers "light" cigarettes and tar numbers, spit tobacco, analysis of tobacco industry claims. (ftc.gov)
new window Tobaccopedia - The Tobacco Encyclopedia Description: Organized compendium of online resources on tobaco, active smoking, passive smoking, addiction, pharmacology, chemistry, cessation, economics, youth, women, smokefree homes and workplaces, and effects on the environment. (tobaccopedia.org)
new window TobaccoWeek Description: Tobacco news, resources & information for the tobacco control professional engaged in policy development and implementation and tobacco users looking for effective ways to quit smoking. (tobaccoweek.com)
new window Top Ten Myths About Smoking Description: AHealthyAdvantage examines ten widely held beliefs about cigarettes and tobacco products. (lifewise.ahealthyadvantage.com)
new window UICC GLOBALink Description: Online tobacco control community of the International Union Against Cancer (UICC) offers tobacco control resources, papers, directory, networks, calendar, factsheets, and country profiles. Tobacco news headlines and bulletins. (globalink.org)
new window UICC GLOBALink Tobacco Control Resources Description: Large set of resources including tobacco news, world tobacco news, tobacco industry secret documents, tobacco control information, tobacco activism accounts, situation overviews for various countries, anti-smoking posters, secondhand smoke information, satirical ads, and tracking tobacco industry activities worldwide. (globalink.org)
new window UNC-TV - Black Issues Forum - Tobacco Use Description: Transcript of TV show on how tobacco and smoking affects African Americans. (unctv.org)
new window University of California - Center for Tobacco Control and Research Education Description: Publications on tobacco include analysis of industry documents, and reports on industry influence in government. (repositories.cdlib.org)
new window University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network Description: Network of University of Michigan scholars, spanning many disciplines in numerous UM schools and colleges, who share an interest in tobacco and nicotine related research. Tobacco websites, news and events, research. (umich.edu)
new window Up In Smoke: The FTC's Refusal to Apply the "Unfairness Doctrine" to Camel Cigarette Advertising Description: Legal journal article analyzes whether the FTC legally could have undertaken action against the Joe Camel advertising campaign. (law.indiana.edu)
new window Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Overview Description: Collection of stories on tobacco from the Washington Post. (washingtonpost.com)
 




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