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» ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health
Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos. http://www.ash.org.uk/ Sites:
» ASH Australia
Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places. http://www.ashaust.org.au/ » ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control
Programs of the U.S. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to raise the visibility of tobacco prevention and control issues among state health officials and their senior staff. http://www.astho.org/?template=state_tobacco.html » Action In The War Against Big Tobacco
Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do. http://www.cleanlungs.com/action/index.html » Action on Smoking and Health - Canada
Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention. http://www.ash.ca/ » Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change
Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates. http://www.thepraxisproject.org/tools/advocacy_how_to_tobacco.pdf » Advocating for the Public's Health
Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care. http://www.commed.uchc.edu/healthservices/mediaadvoc/default.htm » Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education
Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action. http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/involved/tobacco_background.html » Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health
Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/ » American Lung Association Action Network
How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy. http://lungaction.org/ » AntiSmokingAds.org
Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research. http://www.antismokingads.org/ » Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide
A comprehensive guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate by Dr. Larry Breed, DrPH covers dozens of topics and outlines activism responses to tobacco, with an emphasis on knowledge before action. http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/lbguide.html » British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has developed strategy for dealing with the tobacco industry and its allies by using their stock to challenge issues through shareholder resolutions. http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/375 » Burning Brain Society
Burning Brain Society is a voluntary Civil Society Organization in India with a focus on tobacco policy and how this affects young people and their future. http://www.burningbrain.org » Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobac http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/ » Cigarette Litter
Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. http://www.cigarettelitter.org/ » Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively
Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world. http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/qofm/0202a.html » Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization
A report from CorpWatch. http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3972 » EMRO Tobacco Free Initiative Homepage
World Health Organization initiative on tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) provides posters and factsheets on smoking in English and Arabic, Islamic rules and Christian views on smoking. http://www.emro.who.int/tfi/wntd2001/ » Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco
Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canada with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, an http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/ » Fight With Fact
Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco. http://www.fightwithfact.com/ » Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization
Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco. http://nosmoking.ws/ » 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 and why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/glantz.html » GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network
A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver. http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/ » Gayatri Pariwar
Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco. http://www.vatikashaktipeeth.com/tobacco/ » 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 involve http://www.getoutraged.com/ » Give Tobacco The Boot!
Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos. http://www.givetobaccotheboot.org » Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland
Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Switzerland. http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_8734.htm » Grand Unification Press
Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking". http://www.grandupress.com » Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses
An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper. http://www.grimreaper.org/ » Health Canada: Tobacco
Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations. http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/ » Health Promotion: Global Perspectives
Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally. http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/global/2000-09/index.htm » International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT)
Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls. http://www.inwat.org/ » International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco
News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials. http://www.ingcat.org/ » Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D.
Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider' http://www.jeffreywigand.com/ » Join the Joe Chemo Campaign!
Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event. http://www.joechemo.org/campaign.htm » Licensed to Kill, Inc.
Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money. http://www.licensedtokill.biz/ » 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, and medical costs due to smoking. http://www.mascotcoalition.org/ » Making it UNCOOL
Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products. http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9903.worth.cigs.html » Motherjones.com - See For Yourself: The Spiked PSA
A Quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California until it was pulled by the governor. http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/qt2.html » NYPIRG: Tobacco
Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do. http://www.nypirg.org/health/tobacco/ » National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH)
Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada. http://www.cctc.ca » PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign
Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest. http://www.pirg.org/consumer/tobacco/index.htm » Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH)
Provides grants, technical assistance, research, and training for tobacco policy advocacy to community groups serving communities of color. http://www.thepraxisproject.org/path/ » Public Citizen: Tobacco
Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation. http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/Tobacco/index.cfm » 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. http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/ » Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network
An advocacy-focused collective working to reduce tobacco use in the state. Includes articles and membership form. http://www.ritcn.org/ » Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page
Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco. http://sklaroff.globalink.org/homepage-tobacco.html » 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!" http://www.polarisinc.com/tobacco/ » Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry
Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulatio http://www.alternet.org/story/3519/ » 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. http://www.no-smoke.org/goingsmokefree.php » Smokefree.net
A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces. http://www.smokefree.net/ » Smokinghurts.com
Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research. http://www.smokinghurts.com/ » StatesOnTheTake.com
Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry. http://www.statesonthetake.com/ » Taking Down the Marlboro Man
Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC. http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/23/taking_down_the_malboro_man/ » Taking on Tobacco Imperialism
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html » Tarbox, Barb
Victim of smoking-related cancer. Led crusade across Canada to stop children from starting to smoke. Includes story, short commercials she recorded, transcripts of those commercials, and donation information. http://www.aadac.com/79_601.asp » The Oxygen Project
Grassroots activism for smokefree campus environments. http://www.theoxygenproject.com » The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues
Award-winning site examines non-health related tobacco industry fraud and false claims issues, presenting authentic tobacco company documents to illustrate tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and claims. Features grassroots programs and intera http://www.rxshuster.org/ » The Syrian Center For Tobacco Studies
Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria http://www.scts-sy.org/ » 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. http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/393 » Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition
Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada. http://www.timiskaminghu.com/content.asp?navID=49&parentID=49&lang=en » Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000
Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. http://medicolegal.tripod.com/alltcases.htm » 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 http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/141 » Tobacco Control Supersite
Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia. http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/ » Tobacco Free Initiative
World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco. http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ » Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan
Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion. http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/EMROleads-Pakistan.htm » Tobacco Free U
Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation. http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/ » Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East
Report from the WHO Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents tobacco industry front groups, lobbying, PR campaigns, spying on tobacco control organizations, and delaying or blocking anti-tobacco measures in the region. http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/VOICE OF TRUTH.pdf » Tobacco To 21
Ohio-based organization; advocates making 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco. Describes tobacco history; industry promotion; tobacco and health; addiction; costs of tobacco use; use by children; and public policy. http://www.tobacco21.org/ » Tobacco in Developing Countries: Dream Scenario or Shrill Wake-Up Call?
A slide show countering some of the common myths related to tobacco and developing countries. http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-12009-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html » Tough on Drugs -- Weak on Tobacco
Article in medical journal outlines how and why the government of Australia does little about tobacco, and government funding for tobacco control is small compared to government funding of other public health issues. http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_12_190600/chapman/chapman.html » Virginia GASP home page
Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct. http://www.gasp.org/#factsheets » Wallgreens.Com
A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products. http://www.Wallgreens.com/ This category needs an editor
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