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Resources
Bibliography | Antitobacco Web sites | Other Resources
Bibliography
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Antitobacco Web sites
The following list reflects just some of the many Web sites that contain useful information about the use of tobacco. While this list is in no way all-inclusive, these Web sites have been visited by members of the Task Force on Women & Girls, Tobacco, & Lung Cancer. They have been indexed according to the topic sections in the Kit.
| The CHEST Foundation |
The CHEST Foundation’s Web site offers a variety of resources on tobacco prevention and lung health education for women and children, including the Make the Choice: Tobacco or Health? Speakers Kit and the Lung Health Curriculum.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Advocacy Institute |
This Web site offers a comprehensive news database of articles from the nation's four largest newspapers, as well as a wealth of information on all aspects of the tobacco issue.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| The Alliance for Lung Cancer |
The Alliance for Lung Cancer is devoted solely to the issues facing people with lung cancer. This page provides background information and links to other related sites.
Categories: Health | Policy |
| American Cancer Society (ACS) |
The Tobacco and Cancer sections of the ACS Web site are dedicated to tobacco-related cancers and their effects on society. Topics covered include smoking-related cancers, environmental tobacco smoke, and other tobacco-related health issues. The ACS has followed the lung cancer epidemic, which is covered on this page.
The Guide to Quitting Smoking section is devoted to helping cigarette smokers quit.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) |
The ACCP Web site covers many topics related to cardiopulmonary diseases including smoking-related diseases. There is an extensive page of links to other related Web sites.
Category: Health |
| American Heart Association (AHA) |
The AHA Web site covers topics related to cardiac health, including smoking-related risk for heart disease and stroke.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| American Legacy Foundation (ALF) |
The American Legacy Foundation was mandated as a term of the Master Settlement Agreement between the tobacco companies and 46 states. The Foundation was established to reduce the use of tobacco in the United States, particularly among America's youth. There are pages at this site for general tobacco use information; current research and education efforts; and advocacy efforts.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| American Lung Association (ALA) |
The ALA Web site covers topics related to lung disorders, particularly COPD and asthma and has a number of pages dealing with smoking-related risks, smoking cessation, and information for kids about the dangers of smoking.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| American Medical Association (AMA) |
The AMA has a searchable database of articles on smoking-related issues, including some full-text articles.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) |
The AMWA's Web site offers information on a comprehensive list of health issues for women, including a page on the impact of smoking on women.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
Boston University School of Public Health
Quitnet |
This Web site offers information on current tobacco-related health issues and cessation techniques
This Web site includes information on tobacco-related advocacy and policy issues.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| California Dental Association |
This Web site provides resources for Health-Care providers and the general public on how to stop using smokeless tobacco; it includes posters, videos, pictures, and links to other helpful resources.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids |
This excellent Web site is devoted to helping kids become tobacco-free. The topics covered include the history of tobacco, tobacco policy, tobacco control, facts about tobacco use, tobacco statistics, research studies, etc.
Categories: Ad History | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
The CDC has an extensive and comprehensive Web site for tobacco-related issues that includes pages for relevant Surgeon General's Reports, research and data relevant to tobacco and smoking, cessation, tips for kids and teens, and extensive links to other relevant Web sites.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Cigarette Anyone |
Read first-hand accounts of the health effects of smoking from members of EFFORTS, a non-profit group taking an active role to facilitate education, treatment, and, especially, a cure for emphysema and related lung disease. Many of the contributors began smoking as kids.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| CigaretteLitter.org |
CigaretteLitter.org is an informal, non-profit organization dedicated to dramatically reducing cigarette litter across the United States
Categories: Girls | Policy |
| Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco (C.O.S.T.) |
This Web page was created by 43 middle school students who want to keep tobacco out of the hands of other kids. The site has strong antismoking messages for kids with a good segment on current advertising efforts aimed at kids.
Categories: Ad History | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
The EPA Web site can be searched for documents relating to tobacco smoke. Most will be about environmental smoke.
Category: Policy |
| Foundation for a Smokefree America |
This excellent Web site offers comprehensive information on a myriad of tobacco-related topics including Web pages for young people, smoking cessation, press releases, advocacy issues, and an extensive set of links to other tobacco-related Web sites.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Get Outraged |
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, this site includes information from formerly secret tobacco industry documents as well as suggestions for how to get involved in the fight against the tobacco industry.
Categories: Policy |
| Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation |
This group develops programs to prevent and reduce the usage of tobacco and tobacco products in Indiana.
Categories: Cessation | Girls |
| Indiana Tobacco Control Center (Medical Education Resources Program/Division of Continuing Medical Education (Indiana University [MERP/CME]) |
This comprehensive Web site covers areas such as tobacco control, tobacco control laws, the history of tobacco in America, and resources for physicians and Health-Care providers.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| International Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) |
This Web site provides international information on women and tobacco and has fact sheets, tobacco-related links in several countries, and information on securing a set of slides. The talk that INWAT's president presented at the WHO International Conference on Tobacco, Kobe, Japan, in 1999 can be accessed through this Web page.
Categories: Ad History | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Joe Chemo |
JoeChemo.org is an interactive web site that allows visitors to test their “Tobacco IQ,” get a personalized “Smoke-o-Scope,” and send free Joe Chemo E-providers, journalists, and smokers who wish to quit.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health |
| Massachusetts Department of Public Health |
This site helps people stop smoking with a "Quit Wizard" that supports them through the difficult process with information, a calendar, a savings calculator, and more. Smokers also will be inspired by quitting "success stories." Plus, there is a section for those who want to help others quit.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health |
| MayoClinic.com |
This Web page is devoted to smoking cessation and provides information on quitting tips and methods, information for health-care providers, nicotine dependence, and medications, among others.
Category: Cessation |
| Monitoring the Future, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults and includes statistical tables and figures of the data from the study.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
NCI's Web page has information on the various types of cancer, including those related to tobacco use.
Category: Health |
| National Drug Strategy Network (NDSN) |
The NDSN Web page is primarily concerned with issues related to drug usage and drug treatment with information on tobacco use prevention and tobacco control.
Categories: Cessation | Policy |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
The NIDA Web page includes a number of reports and articles on nicotine addition and smoking cessation efforts.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
This searchable Web site has a broad range of information including cancer statistics, clinical trials, general research, access to MEDLINE, and general health topics.
Category: Health |
| National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign |
The Campaign uses a mix of modern communications techniques, ranging from advertising and public relations to interactive media to educate and empower young to reject illicit drugs.
Category: Ad History | Girls |
| SmokeFree Network |
This Web page is devoted to advocacy and action efforts to curtail tobacco use and has pages on local and national alerts, interactive links, and chat rooms, among others.
Category: Policy |
| Smokingisugly.com |
Created by Christy Turlington, smokingisugly.com is a resource guide containing information on issues ranging from quitting smoking to facts about lung cancer.
Category: Health | Policy |
| Southern Tobacco Communities Project |
The Southern Tobacco Communities Project aims to bring together community leaders in the health field, tobacco community and community development from six southern, tobacco-growing state (Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia) through roundtable discussions.
Category: Policy |
| The State Tobacco Information Center |
Because the litigation with the tobacco companies has been settled, this Web page is used as an archive site for documents that relate to the litigation. The site offers a resource library of documents, past and present, related to the tobacco companies' settlement with the states.
Category: Policy |
| Tobacco Control Resource Center (TCRC) |
The TCRC Web page is maintained by Northeastern University School of Law. Topics covered include the Canadian government's lawsuit against R. J. Reynolds, international tobacco issues, Supreme Court rulings affecting tobacco control, advocacy issues, access to their Tobacco Control Update newsletter, and links to other Web sites.
Category: Policy |
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
The FDA Web site includes a compliance checker for retailers of cigarettes, a toll-free number to report retailers who sell tobacco to children, updates on the latest tobacco-related news, and a second on U.S. regulations regarding the sale of tobacco. There is also a page devoted to kids and tobacco.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Girl Power! is the national public education campaign sponsored by the Department of the Health and Human Services to help encourage and motivate 9- to 14-year-old girls to make the most of their lives and has information on the dangers of tobacco use. The Web site provides information for adults as well as girls. There are links to other appropriate sites for girls as well as chat rooms for girls.
Categories: Girls | Health |
| WhiteLies.tv |
Uncover the lies of the tobacco industry.
Categories: Policy |
| World Health Organization |
The World Health Organization's Web site can be searched for tobacco-related topics, with links to related Web sites by country of origin. There are also links to conferences, the various tobacco companies, journal citation databases, among others.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| World No Tobacco Day |
First held in 1988,and observed annually on May 31st, World No Tobacco Day is a global event established to call worldwide attention to the impact of tobacco on public health.
Categories: Policy |
| Young Choices |
Cancer Survivor Don Young began smoking at early age of 14. By age 48, Don underwent a series of operations for throat cancer that saved his life, but left him unable to speak. He now uses an electrolarynx which allows him to produce a robot-like speech. Today, as a cancer survivor, Don helps young people resist tobacco. By sharing his painful experience with others, Don hopes to save many young people from the suffering and premature death that tobacco can cause.
Categories: Girls | Health |
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Other Resources
Action Props, Interactive Activities
Girl Scouts of America
420 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-2798
Web site - http://www.girlscouts.org
Girls Incorporated Headquarters
120 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Web site - http://www.girlsinc.org
HealthEdco
Division of WRS Group, Inc.
PO Box 21207
Waco, TX 76702-1207
Web site - http://www.wrsgroup.com
They're Rich, You're Dead
Videos and CD-ROMs Interactive CD
Arthur E. Pitchenik, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor of Medicine/University of Miami/School of Medicine
Chief, Pulmonary Section/Miami VA Medical Center
Brochures and Pamphlets
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
Publications Clearinghouse
PO Box 8547
Silver Spring, MD 20907
Web site - http://www.ahrq.gov
American Academy of Pediatrics
Division of Publications
141 Northwest Point Blvd., PO Box 747
Elk Grove Village, IL 60009-9747
Web site - http://www.aap.org
Girl Scouts of America
420 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10018-2798
Web site - http://www.girlscouts.org
Girls Incorporated Headquarters
120 Wall Street, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10005
Web site - http://www.girlsinc.org
Posters, Comic Books, Photos, Stickers, Screensavers, etc.
Smoke-Free Kids
National Cancer Institute
Web site - http://www.smokefree.gov
TobaccoFree.org
PO Box 492028
Los Angeles, CA 90049-8028
Web site - http://www.tobaccofree.com
Videos
HealthEdco
Division of WRS Group, Inc.
PO Box 21207
Waco, TX 76702-1207
Web site - http://www.wrsgroup.com
TobaccoFree.org
PO Box 492028
Los Angeles, CA 90049-8028
Web site - http://www.tobaccofree.com
Hotlines
For information on quitting and area tobacco cessation programs:
1-800-LUNG USA
and
1-800-4-CANCER
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