Web Directory

» Action on Smoking and Health
   UK charity provides history, factsheets, schools resources, discussion, policy and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on internal memos.
   http://www.ash.org.uk/

» American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer
   Information about the harmful effects of tobacco, quitting tips, smoking legislation, and risks for children and teens.
   http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10.asp?sitearea=PED&level=1

» American College of Chest Physicians
   It's the chest physician, the cardiac specialist, or the oncologist, that breaks the prognosis to the family. This website goes to the response of the medical community to preventable disease and death.
   http://www.chestnet.org

» International Union Against Cancer
   Cigarette smoking is the greatest avoidable cause of disease and death in the world. This program aims to change attitudes to tobacco use in society and to promote a strategy to eradicate tobacco production, sales, promotion, and use. Conferences, tobacco
   http://www.uicc.org/index.php?id=707

» Koop Institute
   The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth has projects on tobacco, nicotine, addiction, public health.
   http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/koop/

» Ontario Medical Association: Tobacco Issues
   Papers on secondhand smoke, tobacco industry, stop-smoking medications, smokefree workplaces, cigarette package labelling.
   http://www.oma.org/phealth/tobaccomain.htm

» Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago
   Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago mission is to promote healthy lungs and fight lung disease through research, advocacy, and education.
   http://www.lungchicago.org

» SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness
   Trains survivors of tobacco-related illness to speak with children and teens in schools and community groups about smoking and the effects of tobacco products.
   http://www.tobaccosurvivors.org/

» Smokefree England
   Official site with details of the Smokefree legislation introduced in England on July 1st 2007.
   http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/

» Survivors and Victims Empowerment Project
   The Survivors and Victims Empowerment program identifies, trains and works with tobacco survivors and acts as a resource for groups in North Carolina. Youth listen and learn when a survivor of a tobacco-related illness shares their story.
   http://www.main.nc.us/save/

» Tackling Tobacco
   Programs and information for students, teachers, and health care professionals about tobacco, from Texas A&M.
   http://tacklingtobacco.tamhsc.edu/

» The American Legacy Foundation
   Promoting tobacco-free generations; vision is to become the preeminent authority in tobacco prevention by funding cutting edge research, marketing and education programs that tell the truth about tobacco use.
   http://www.americanlegacy.org/

» The Cancer Council of New South Wales: The Tobacco Web
   Fact sheets on the history of smoking, secondhand smoke, young people, women, quitting, cancer, and other health issues.
   http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369

» Tobacco Control Resource Centre
   Working with medical associations across Europe to educate doctors, help patients, and inform public policy on tobacco.
   http://www.tobacco-control.org/

» Tobacco Dependence Program
   Dedicated to reducing the harm to health caused by tobacco, through education, treatment, research and advocacy; a program of the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Cessation guidelines for individuals and clinicians; tobacco-free policies; chem
   http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/

» Tobacco Free Initiative
   World Health Organization provides information on tobacco's health impact, secondhand smoke, economics, youth, industry conduct, women and tobacco, and advocacy for tobacco policy change.
   http://tobacco.who.int/

» Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
   TTAC builds capacity to achieve effective tobacco prevention and control programs and policies, by providing information and technical assistance.
   http://www.ttac.org/

» Tobacco use in British Columbia
   Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Summary of the "number one preventable cause of death in British Columbia, killing more than 5,800 people and costing the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars annually."
   http://www.health.gov.bc.ca/tobacco/

» Trans-Atlantic Conference on Tobacco
   Sponsored by the Koop Institute, a group of health care professionals at Cambridge University and at Dartmouth Medical Center met to discuss tobacco policy, research, and prevention/treatment strategies.
   http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/koop/projects/past/tobacco_conference.shtml

» VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control
   Conducts research and undertakes policy development work designed to advance tobacco control efforts in Australia and internationally. This site provides information about the centre and its research programs as well as links to important repositories of
   http://www.vctc.org.au/

» smokefreeVCU.org
   Smokefree organization at Virginia Commonwealth University; site features smokefree stories, quit help, posters on smoking and quitting, behavioral strategies for success in beating nicotine.
   http://www.smokefreevcu.org/

» tobaccofreedom.org
   Education, news, research, and analysis.
   http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/