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      new window Women and Smoking  [Recommended]   Description: Chapter in a book on tobacco in the UK. (ash.org.uk)
new window "You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby" Description: Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada. (web.idrc.ca)
new window 16. Women and smoking Description: Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia. (quit.org.au)
new window A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic Description: Report in PDF format from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women. (amsa.org)
new window ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke? Description: Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking. (acsh.org)
new window ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000 Description: Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice. (acsh.org)
new window Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction Description: "Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation." (foresight-preconception.org.uk)
new window Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco Description: Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF. (tobaccofreekids.org)
new window Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco Description: Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group). (moalpha.org)
new window Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke Description: Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking. (cwhn.ca)
new window Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model Description: Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer. (drdonnica.com)
new window Cigarette Ads Targetting Women Description: A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads. (tobacco.org)
new window Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis Description: Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women." (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
new window Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes Description: Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women. (csmonitor.com)
new window Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy Description: New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children. (chem-tox.com)
new window Cigarettes Cause More Damage to Women Description: Recent research finds that cigarettes cause more disease in women. (ingenta.com)
new window Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer Description: Summary of recent research. (bcn.boulder.co.us)
new window Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women Description: According to recent research. (ash.org)
new window Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females Description: The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement. (quitsmoking.about.com)
new window Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women Description: Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women. (health.fi)
new window Facts on Women and Tobacco Description: Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). (cdc.gov)
new window Higher death risk for women smokers Description: Women are twice as likely to develop an untreatable form of lung cancer than men, according to the UK's biggest lung cancer study. (news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk)
new window Independence From Smoking Description: National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking. (4woman.gov)
new window 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)
new window ivillage: Smoking and Women Description: Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention. (ivillagehealth.com)
new window Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking Description: US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular (csmonitor.com)
new window June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women Description: Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families. (jrussellshealth.com)
new window Ladies Home Journal on Smoking Description: Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms. (lhj.com)
new window Marketing Cigarettes to Women - Fact Sheet Description: CDC pamphlet covers history of cigarette advertising strategies, current advertising strategies, sponsorships and promotions, and global advertising strategies. (cdc.gov)
new window Mediascope Issue Briefs - Women and Smoking Description: Factsheet, all sources cited; tobacco industry promotion to women; smoking and women's health. (mediascope.org)
new window OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk Description: Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. (sciencedaily.com)
new window Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls Description: Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking. (ourbodiesourselves.org)
new window Philip Morris: National Expert on Women Description: Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues". (tobacco.org)
new window Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination Description: Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy. (mothersbliss.co.uk)
new window Recruiting Women Smokers: The Engineering of Consent Description: Summarizes research on how cigarette advertisers structure their messages and images to get more women to smoke. (ohd.hr.state.or.us)
new window Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. Description: Book review. (tc.bmjjournals.com)
new window Scientist Deplores Philip Morris' "Woman Thing" Music Campaign as Latest Enticement to Young Girls Description: A public health expert and other prominent speakers deplore "Philip Morris' latest move to entice young girls to smoke: the "Woman Thing" music campaign where girls get "free" CD's by buying two packs of Virginia Slims cigarettes. (acsh.org)
new window Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function Description: Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study. (unisci.com)
new window Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker? Description: Benefits of quitting for you and your baby, resources that will help you quit smoking and stay quit, and how to contact Smoke-Free Families. (smokefreefamilies.org)
new window Smokey Imagery and the 7 Deadly Myths Description: Oxygen.com describes tobacco industry use of images of thin, liberated women, enjoying an active, love-filled life, to get women to smoke. (oxygen.com)
new window Smoking and Quitting for Women Description: From the National Women's Health Information Center. (forwoman.net)
new window Smoking and Reproduction Description: ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and long-term growth. (ash.org.uk)
new window Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic Description: World Health Organiziation fact sheet. (who.int)
new window Smoking is a Women's Issue Description: Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry. (tobaccofreekids.org)
new window Smoking Is Ugly Description: Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info. (smokingisugly.com)
new window Smoking's a Drag for Women Description: Article from the Toronto Sun about smoking cessation. (canoe.ca)
new window Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women Description: Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher. (sciencedaily.com)
new window Smoking: A Guide for Teens Description: Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women. (youngwomenshealth.org)
new window Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia Description: Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data. (wvdhhr.org)
new window Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer Description: Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options. (speakerskit.chestnet.org)
new window Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry Description: Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten. (ritobaccocontrolnet.com)
new window The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women Description: Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women. (tc.bmjjournals.com)
new window The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit Description: Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. "We help pregnant women quit smoking." (helppregnantsmokersquit.org)
new window The New Face of Tobacco: Women Description: Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. (lists.essential.org)
new window The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility Description: Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight. (globalink.org)
new window The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking Description: Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco. (globalink.org)
new window The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes Description: Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal. (wcn.org)
new window The Wrong Way to Stay Slim Description: Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking. (nejm.org)
new window This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care? Description: Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups. (washingtonpost.com)
new window Tobacco Advertising Description: Gallery of tobacco ads, some exploiting women, some targetting women. (users.wclynx.com)
new window Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising Description: You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slimds ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's. (tobacco.org)
new window Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting Description: Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language. (TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com)
new window Tobacco and Women's Health Description: Book review of book of same title. (tc.bmjjournals.com)
new window Tobacco as a Problem for Women Description: Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women. (bcn.boulder.co.us)
new window Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO Description: Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report. (bmj.com)
new window Tobacco, and Women and Young People Description: Chapter from a book by the British Medical Association examines women and smoking. (bma.org.uk)
new window Torches of Freedom Description: Themes of Women's Liberation in American Cigarette Advertising; a paper presented at the Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association Convention. In PDF. (rtvf.unt.edu)
new window U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s Description: ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history. (smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu)
new window Virginia SLAM! Description: Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry out of music. (drdonnica.com)
new window Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy Description: Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart. (cnn.com)
new window Women and Smoking Description: American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones. (women.americanlegacy.org)
new window Women and Smoking Description: A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links. (cdc.gov)
new window Women and Smoking Description: Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation. (womenandsmoking.com)
new window Women and Tobacco Description: WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes. (tobacco.who.int)
new window Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report Description: The marked increase in the number of women who die each year from tobacco products has led the surgeon general to call smoking-related disease among women a full-blown epidemic. (usmedicine.com)
new window Women First - Smoking Cessation Description: "For women approaching midlife, smoking cessation is the single most important change you can make to enhance your life expectancy." Collection of articles on smoking and quitting for women. (womenfirst.com)
new window Women's Cigarette Market Description: 1973 R. J. Reynolds memo discusses it marketing strategies targeting women. (library.ucsf.edu)
new window Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women Description: NOW pamphlet. "Within six years of the tobacco industry's introduction of cigarette brands and ad campaigns targetting women, the number of girls smoking increased 110%." Factsheet and research references. (now.org)
new window Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women Description: NOW Foundation fact sheet. (nowfoundation.org)
new window Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks Description: Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking. (healthfactsandfears.com)
new window Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge Description: Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action. (ceche.org)
new window You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World Description: Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking = liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally. (villagevoice.com)
new window You've Come a Long Way...or Have You? Description: From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing. (acsh.org)
new window Zyban may be better than nicotine to help women snuff tobacco habit Description: Recent research finds Zyban is more effective than nicotine patches or gum for women quitting smoking. (oregonlive.com)
 




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