Surf these sites: 4-A-Voice -- Program that encourages real people to share their stories about how tobacco use has hurt them and their loved ones. Also tobacco news, contact information for California tobacco control organizations, and information on how to quit smoking. AIRSPACE Action on Smoking and Health -- Non-profit health advocacy group in the province of British Columbia, Canada. ASH - Action on Smoking and Health -- A London-based charity specialising in dealing with addiction and health problems relating to tobacco. ASH Australia -- Factsheets, letters, analysis, and newsletter of an active not for profit organization dedicated to improving tobacco control in Australia. Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) -- Everything for people concerned about smoking and nonsmokers'' rights Advocating for the Public''s Health -- Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco''s smoke and mirrors". Developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Heath Care. Alberta Tobacco Control Centre -- Focus is on enabling individuals and groups within the community to take effective action to reduce tobacco use. Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education: statement on Tobacco -- Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life through increased advocacy, psychosocial support programs, and education about the disease and its treatment. Their page on tobacco is a powerful statement on why lung cancer is the "invisible disease". Americans for Nonsmokers'' Rights -- Americans for Nonsmokers'' Rights works to pass legislation at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and protect youth from tobacco addiction. Arizona Tobacco Education & Prevention Program -- "Tobacco: tumor causing teeth staining, smelly, puking habit" is the theme of their tobacco education campaign. CCAA - Coalition for Clean Air in Apartments -- "The world''s first organization to address quality of air issues for residents in group housing." What you can do to protect yourself from secondhand smoke in apartments, at home, in the workplace, in public places. Also tobacco industry information, news, and analysis. Center for Tobacco Free New York -- Send e-postcards to tell your elected officials how to spend tobacco settlement money and stop smoking in New York State Coalition for a Tobacco Free Pennsylvania -- Policies the Coalition advocates, tobacco-related news and information, and searchable databases of smoking cessation programs and smoke-free restaurants in Pennsylvania. Connecticut stop tobacco -- "Activist site for Connecticut residents to fight the tobacco industry and protect kids from tobacco poisoning. Big Tobacco stalks, poisons, makes addicts, and kills -- all for profit. Using tobacco settlement money to protect teenagers and make them smoke-free will reduce profits and cause tobacco''s decline. Kids say: tobacco sucks." Conscientious Consuming Tobacco Company Boycott -- Conscientious Consuming is the process of evaluating the conduct and activities of product manufacturers when purchasing consumer products. This action involves the boycott of non-tobacco products of tobacco companies. Council for a Tobacco-Free Ontario Home Page -- The Council for a Tobacco-Free Ontario (CTFO) is a volunteer-directed, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate tobacco use in Ontario. Updates on Canada and the U.S. Extensive resources area. In English and French. Developing Coalitions for Tobacco-Free Youth -- Why tobacco is a community issue; forming a coallition; developing the coalition''s membership and expertise; planning for action; communicating with the community. Fight Against Smoking Team -- "A non-profit educational organization that uses the sport of professional auto racing to publicize the negative health and social consequences of smoking and cigarettes. We believe we are the only anti-smoking racecar running events all across the country." Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz -- 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; why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not; and much more. GASP of Colorado -- Smokefree dining database, advocacy, and lots of educational articles. Get Outraged -- "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." Health Canada: Tobacco -- Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations. Heath Partnership Project -- Health educators, doctors, nurses, pharmacists, medical students, teens, policy makers and community members dedicated to reducing the impact of tobacco in California. Supports communities in reducing and eliminating tobacco sales and promomtion in pharmacies and drugstores. Provides traning materials and resources for health professionals to fight tobacco use. Hope on the Tobacco Front -- Article in the newsletter of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada on "important gains against the tobacco industry" and upcoming legislation. INFACT -- 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. INWAT home page -- The International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT) was founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls. Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco -- Pulls together information on tobacco, nicotine and addictdion, secondhand smoke, media advocacy, youth, tobacco additives, and women and tobacco. Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. -- Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie ''The Insider'' Join Together Online: Substance Abuse -- Join Together is a national resource center for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. "Tobacco is the most common substance abuse problem, and the most lethal. Tobacco causes 400,000 deaths each year, killing more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, suicides, and fires combined." Join Together Online: daily news summaries on tobacco stories -- Join Together Online tobaco articles. News summaries every day on smoking, tobacco, and the tobacco industry. MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco -- Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, medical costs due to smoking, and more. Making it UNCOOL -- Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products. Minnesota Smoke Free Coalition Online -- Minnesota''s Tobacco Settlement: Let''s Win the War! Adovocates for use of tobacco settlement funds for tobacco use prevention. Large "trial evidence" section. NO PATSY Homepage - National Organization of People Attacking Tobacco Sales to Youth -- Canada''s Tobacco Activist Headquarters - Top stories from NO PATSY - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars, the battles, the lawsuits, the government actions. National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) -- Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada. National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco -- Aims to help recognize the dangers of tobacco use and exposure, and take a leadership role in helping the global community of women and girls lead tobacco-free lives. Non Smokers'' Movement of Australia -- The Non Smokers'' Movement of Australia is a lobby group against the tobacco industry, tobacco advertising, smoking in public places and all out-of-touch politicians who support this bogus industry. Non-Smokers'' Rights Association / Smoking and Health Action Foundation (Canada) -- NSRA and SHAF have been at the forefront of tobacco control efforts in Canada and around the world for the past quarter-century. PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign -- Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest. Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada -- Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada. Preemption of Local Tobacco Control -- ANR papers and tips on preemption and how to fight it. "Preempting local tobacco control with weaker state or federal laws is the tobacco industry''s number one legislative goal." QuickTime: PSA -- A quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California, until it was pulled by governor Pete Wilson. Wilson is "still a good friend" of the tobacco industry, according to an exposed industry document. RI Tobacco Control Network -- 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. SCARCNet Home Page -- SCARCNet Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center Network, a project of the Advocacy Institute San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project -- 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!" Save Lives, Not Tobacco -- A Coalition for Accountability -- Coalition of over 300 public health, consumer, medical, civic, labor and business organizations that advocates fair and effective tobacco control policies at local, state, and national levels. Supports measures that will reduce addiction, disease, disability and death caused by tobacco products. Believes that granting special protection to the tobacco industry is unjust and would undercut the ability to protect public health. Scientific American: Science and the Citizen: Big Tobacco''s Worst Nightmare -- "Industry secrets exposed by Stanton A. Glantz helped to put tobacco companies on the run. Show them no mercy, he urges" Smoke Free Maryland Home Page -- Avocacates for a smokefree society. Features info on the economic costs of tobacco use. Smoke Free Maryland Voting Records Site -- "Did your lawmakers vote for Big Tobacco or You?" Smoke Free Maryland''s Voting Records Page examines each candidate''s record on the issues. Smoke-Free School -- Aims for a 100% smoke-free environment at the Samuel-de-Champlain school in Saint-John, New Brunswick, Canada. SmokeScreen Action Network -- "Clearing the smoke from tobacco industry activity". Features news, discussion, and activism. Smokefree Advocacy -- 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. The Globalization of Tobacco -- Report from Corporate Watch. Essays and speeches on the global marketing and politics of tobacco. The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues -- A NON-Health Related Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues site. Uses tobacco company documents, forms and guides to illustrate fraudulent tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and false claims. It has Grassroots Efforts Programs and will be interactive. It is at less than 1/10th of 1% of planned content. The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage? -- 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. The Tobacco Wars American Style -- Canadian physician Terry Polevoy looks at the U.S. tobacco scene. Tobacco Activism Guide -- Dr. Larry Breed''s Tobacco Activism Guide is a structured guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate. Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 -- Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. Tobacco Control -- 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." Tobacco Control Online -- Quarterly scientific journal launched in 1992 to consider all aspects of tobacco prevention and control. Publishes research on: evaluation of smoking prevention and cessation programs; tracking and evaluation of tobacco control policies and legislation; epidemiologic and behavior research on tobacco use; health effects of smoking, smoking cessation, passive smoking and spit tobacco. Tobacco Control Super Site -- Tobacco control info for public health researchers and advocates in addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia. Tobacco Free Initiative Home Page -- World Health Organization (WHO) on tobacco. Tobacco Money in Politics: Over $25 million -- Common cause study. Tobacco Post - Canada''s best anti-tobacco site -- Canadian coverage of tobacco wars. Covers friends and opponents of the industry in Canada. Features sections on intimidation of the latter: e.g. of pharmaceutical firms marketing stop-smoking products. Tobacco Reduction Homepage -- Mission is to help Canadians to become and remain smoke-free through the provision of appropriate information pertaining to tobacco prevention, protection and cessation. Tobacco To 21 -- Ohio-based organization; advocates making 21 the mininum age to buy tobacco. Info on tobacco history; industry promotion; tobacco and health; addiction; costs of tobacco use; use by children; and public policy. Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles -- Charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. By Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach. Virginia GASP home page -- Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct. WISH Home Page -- Wisconsin Initiative on Smoking and Health. Guides to smokefree dining in Wisconsin, smokefree apartments, lodging, B&B, entertainment, shopping; tobacco news. Web Pages United Against Smoking -- Bunch of links: quitting smoking, smokefree webpages, and more. buttout.net -- Urges boycot of Philip Morris products as long as company advertises in magazines with a substantial readership of 16 to 20 year olds. kickbutt.org: health advocacy, tobacco as a community issue -- Washington DOC (Doctors Ought to Care) is a pioneering organization on tobacco and smoking founded in 1982. ScarcNet tobacco news summaries, educational materials, tobacco issues and analysis. Instead of lecturing to kids about smoking, kickbutt enlists kids as advocates for a smokefree society, and in fighting the tobacco industry.
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