Surf these sites: ACSH: Health Advice in Women''s Magazines: Up in Smoke? -- Women''s magazines are full of health advice. Is it accurate? Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviews 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking. Could it have something to do with the over 300 cigarette ads that the magazines ran during those five months? Background -- Smoking and Canadia Women -- Factsheet. Canadian Cancer Society - If you are a woman who doesn''t want to quit smoking -- What''s not here: advice on how to quit; lectures about how to quit; ways to cut back. What is here: how to deal with people who nag you to quit; getting information on your smoking; some facts about quitting that you might not have known. Cigarette Advertising in Women''s Magazines -- Magazines are a prefered source of health information for women, and research has shown that women''s magazines that carry cigarette advertising are less likely to have articles on the health effects of smoking. Which women''s magazines carry the most cigarette ads? Cosmopolitan and Vogue top the list; this chart tells all. Cigarettes more dangerous to women -- According to recent research. Guide to Stop Smoking for Women -- Canadian health pamphlet. HomeArts: Health News -- Lung Cancer Risk Underestimated, Especially by Women -- The most common cancer in the U.S. is lung cancer, and women have the highest incidence of lung cancer and the highest death rate. 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. 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. Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. -- Book review. Smoking and Quitting for Women -- From the National Women''s Health Information Center. Smoking and Women: the next wave of the global epidemic -- World Health Organiziation fact sheet. Smoking''s a drag for women -- Article from the Toronto Sun about smoking cessation. Stop Promoting Cigarettes to Women -- Distinguished Canadian women are saying "NO" to RJ Reynold''s use of a women''s achievement award to promote its cigarettes -- and they''re asking you to sign on too. Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry -- Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten. Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims advertising -- You''ve come a long way baby. How cigarettes were pushed in the 70''s. Yes, it does seem cheesy now. But it got results: the target audience started using the advertised product more, as they say in marketing. Tobacco Explained: 8. Big Tobacco and Women -- Chapter in a book on tobacco in Australia. Covers use of tobacco by women, how the tobacco industry views women, how the industry targets women in tobacco advertising and promotion.; Tobacco advertising and women -- Gallery of cigarette ads over the century, featuring and targetting women. Tobacco and Women''s Health -- Book review of book of same title. Why cigarettes can be a woman''s worst enemy -- Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertitlty; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart. Women First - Smoking Cessation -- "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. Women and Tobacco -- Information pack from Health Canada. Women''s Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women -- 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. You''ve come a long way...or have you? -- 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. Young Women and Smoking -- "Each day in the United Stated about 1,500 girls being smoking. Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school graduation...Data show an abrupt increase in smoking initiation in girls under age 18 around 1967, when tobacco advertising introduced specific brands of cigarettes for women."
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