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• Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)

  http://www.ash.org/
  U.S. legal-action antismoking organization. Resources include information on health effects, quitting, advocacy programs and techniques, smoking statistics, and U.S. antismoking groups.

• BBC News | Smoking

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/background_briefings/smoking/
  Collection of stories from the BBC.

• Big Tobacco Looks for a Clean Getaway

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.00.html
  Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to the 1997 proposed deal with the tobacco industry.

• Bmj.com Collected Resources: Smoking

  http://www.bmj.com/specialties/smoking-and-tobacco
  Includes hundreds of papers, news stories, clinical reviews, letters, debates, and editorials about health effects and public policies.

• British Medical Journal, 5 August 2000

  http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7257
  Tobacco is the theme of this issue; articles on health policy, lung cancer, passive smoking, tobacco dependence, tobacco litigation.

• Center for Tobacco Surveillance and Evaluation Research

  http://web.sph.rutgers.edu/tobweb/
  Monitors tobacco use trends over time in response to tobacco control activities.

• Documents on Tobacco, Nicotine, Smoking, Cigarettes

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/documents.html
  Tobacco documents, secret documents, tobacco sites, smoking-related news, addresses, history, movie and book lists, health information, quit-smoking, spit tobacco.

• eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction

  http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/287555-overview
  Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.

• GASP of Colorado Education Center

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/index.php
  Tobacco information resources ranging from the costs to society to the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke.

• Health Education Inc. Research Promotion Prevention

  http://www.healtheducation.org/
  Tobacco prevention and education for Nebraska children and communities. News, legislation, and art.

• Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke

  http://www.cleanlungs.com/education/
  Factsheets on tobacco, secondhand smoke, the tobacco industry, and cigarette sales.

• How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works

  http://www.howstuffworks.com/nicotine.htm
  Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.

• India Tobacco News Extracts

  http://www.cpaaindia.org/infocentre/clipping_ati.htm
  Cancer Patients Aid Association hosts news stories on tobacco in India.

• Information on Drugs of Abuse: Nicotine

  http://www.drugabuse.gov/drugs-abuse/tobacco-nicotine
  Resources on nicotine addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

• Leave The Pack Behind

  http://www.leavethepackbehind.org/
  A campus smoking program which provides information for smokers and non-smokers.

• Making Smoking History

  http://www.whsc.emory.edu/_pubs/ph/spring02/smoking.html
  Article features public health worker who challenges the conventional view of smoking as an individual problem, and makes the case for tobacco as a societal health problem.

• MedlinePlus: Smoking

  https://medlineplus.gov/smoking.html
  Medical emphasis; factsheets, clinical trials, prevention/screening, news, organizations, statistics, particular populations.

• MedlinePlus: Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco

  https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002032.htm
  Topic in MEDLINE's medical encyclopedia covers effects, chemical components, diseases caused, quitting tobacco, with 4 poster-quality illustrations.

• Men and smoking

  http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/smoking.html
  Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction.

• Missouri Department of Health: Smoking and Tobacco

  http://health.mo.gov/living/wellness/tobacco/smokingandtobacco/
  Factsheets and reports on tobacco prevention, clean in door air, costs of tobacco products, youth tobacco use, and county-level studies; most in PDF or Word format.

• National African American Tobacco Prevention Network

  http://www.naatpn.org/
  A national network of Black tobacco-control and health promotion activists.

• Nicotine Addiction to Disease: Growing Up With the Tobacco Industry

  http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/1996/2/96.02.03.x.html
  Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute materials covers history and consequences of tobacco use.

• NIDA Research Report - Nicotine Addiction

  http://www.drugabuse.gov/publications/research-reports/tobacco-addiction
  National Institute on drug abuse report on nicotine covers addiction, extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine works, effects of long-term nicotine exposure, treatment of nicotine addiction, gender differences in smoking.

• NIEHS Report on Carcinogens

  http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/index.cfm?objectid=72016262-BDB7-CEBA-FA60E922B18C2540
  Evaluation of substances by scientists from the National Toxicology Program has listing that includes Environmental Tobacco Smoking, Tobacco Smoke, and Smokeless Tobacco.

• NoSmokingArt

  http://members.tripod.com/NoSmokingArt/
  Art depicting anti-smoking messages.

• Not To Kids!

  http://www.nottokids.ca/
  Campaign to educate the community about the Tobacco Control Act of Ontario.

• Patrick Reynolds

  http://www.tobaccofree.org/patrick.htm
  RJ Reynolds' grandson is a well known anti-smoking advocate and motivational speaker, for grades 7-12. He speaks at community events, school assembly programs and colleges on the dangers of smoking, and influence of tobacco industry advertising campaigns.

• Philippe Boucher's Rendez Vous

  http://www.tobacco.org/News/rendezvous/rendezvous.html
  Interviews with major figures in tobacco control.

• Powerpoint Presentations on Tobacco

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/site/misc/powerpoint.dtl
  18 powerpoint presentations from leading tobacco experts, including tobacco company bar promotions, marketing tobacco to women, economics of tobacco, types and uses of tobacco litigation, US tobacco marketing tobacco outside the US, and teenagers, smoking, and transnational tobacco corporations.

• Project Smokeout

  http://www.projectsmokeout.com/
  Dedicated to exposing tobacco industry activity in Texas and around the globe.

• Proposed US Federal Tobacco Legislation

  http://www.techlawjournal.com/cong106/tobacco/Default.htm
  Tech Law Journal summary of bills pertaining to tobacco sales and ads on the Internet.

• Smokers Prayer

  http://www.olivija.com/SMOKERSPRAYER/
  Large list of links and resources compiled by an ex-smokers with COPD. Introduced by her own poem, the Smoker's Prayer.

• Smoking From All Sides

  http://smokingsides.com/
  Links to pages for all perspectives of smoking. Includes sites about anti-smoking groups, commentary, health effects, cessation, celebrity smokers, statistics, news, history, and pro-smoking documents.

• State of Health Products

  http://www.buttout.com/
  Anti-tobacco ID tags, T-shirts, posters, buttons, magnets, wall signs, bookmarks, headbands, and the now-obligatory mouse pads.

• Tar Wars

  http://www.tarwars.org/
  National poster contest for fourth- and fifth-graders on tobacco-free lifestyles.

• The Dope on Nicotine

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/nicotine.html
  NOVA episode on nicotine, addiction, and tobacco products.

• The National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Person

  http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm
  Advocacy group and center for conducting research, education and training to increase public awareness of the effects of tobacco on older persons and to reduce smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke by older persons. Includes fact sheets with data about smoking among older persons, and information specific for older persons about tobacco-related health problems, smoking cessation, and tobacco settlement funds.

• The Tobacco Lords

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/01/mm0192_01.html
  Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to tobacco; includes China's Tobacco Wars; Addicting the Young; The Tobacco Lobby; Fighting for Smoke-free Skies; tobacco economics.

• Tobacco Industry Tracking Database

  http://www.tidatabase.org/
  Searchable database contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and detailed indexing for over 11,000 articles, news stories, and other materials regarding the tobacco industry, clean indoor air campaigns, and other tobacco policy issues.

• Tobacco Names

  http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/tobacconames.html
  Names of people involved in tobacco; some with short descriptions of the involvement; a work in progress.

• UCSF Tobacco Control Archives

  http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco
  California has been a leader in tobacco control; UCSF maintains an archive of important documents, including many formerly secret tobacco industry internal memos.

• University of California - Center for Tobacco Control and Research Education

  http://escholarship.org/uc/ctcre
  Publications on tobacco include analysis of industry documents, and reports on industry influence in government.

• Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Overview

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/overview.htm
  Collection of stories on tobacco from the Washington Post.

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