Directory of Anti-Tobacco Resources

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The Anti-Tobacco category focuses on activities designed to influence personal behavior, public opinion, and legislation regarding tobacco products in the direction of decreased use. It includes sites related to activism, advertising, marketing, and public relations. It also includes sites offering critiques of these activities. Expect to find sites related to:

• Activist organizations,
• Specific campaigns,
• "How-to" guides and information, and
• Critiques of the actions taken by others.

Subcategories

• Boycotts
• Prevention
• Regional
• Regulation
• Tobacco Control Resources

Resources in This Category

• Action In The War Against Big Tobacco

  http://www.cleanlungs.com/action/index.html
  Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do.

• Action on Smoking and Health - Canada

  http://www.ash.ca/
  Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention.

• Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health

  http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/
  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.

• AntiSmokingAds.org

  http://www.antismokingads.org/
  Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research.

• ASAP911Tobacco

  http://asap911tobacco.com/
  Individual advocate in Kentucky.

• ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health

  http://www.ash.org.uk/
  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.

• ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control

  http://www.astho.org/?template=state_tobacco.html
  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.

• Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide

  http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/lbguide.html
  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.

• British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies

  http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7257/375
  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.

• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

  http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/
  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 tobacco companies use to entice youth as their new customers.

• Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization

  http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3972
  A report from CorpWatch.

• European Network for Smoking Prevention

  http://www.ensp.org/
  Active in tobacco control in Europe.

• Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz

  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/glantz.html
  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.

• Gayatri Pariwar

  http://www.vatikashaktipeeth.com/tobacco/
  Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco.

• Give Tobacco The Boot!

  http://www.givetobaccotheboot.org/
  Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos.

• Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland

  http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_8734.htm
  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.

• Grand Unification Press

  http://www.grandupress.com/
  Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking".

• Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses

  http://www.grimreaper.org/
  An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper.

• International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT)

  http://www.inwat.org/
  Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.

• Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D.

  http://www.jeffreywigand.com/
  Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider'

• Join the Joe Chemo Campaign!

  http://www.joechemo.org/campaign.htm
  Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event.

• Licensed to Kill, Inc.

  http://www.licensedtokill.biz/
  Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money.

• MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco

  http://www.mascotcoalition.org/
  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.

• Motherjones.com - See For Yourself: The Spiked PSA

  http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/qt2.html
  A Quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California until it was pulled by the governor.

• Nicotine Victims

  http://www.nicotinevictims.com/
  Focus is on tobacco product addiction.

• PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign

  http://www.pirg.org/consumer/tobacco/index.htm
  Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest.

• Public Citizen: Tobacco

  http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/Tobacco/index.cfm
  Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation.

• San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project

  http://www.polarisinc.com/tobacco/
  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!"

• Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry

  http://www.alternet.org/story/3519/
  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 manipulation of music to promote smoking.

• Smokefree Advocacy

  http://www.no-smoke.org/goingsmokefree.php
  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.

• Smokefree.net

  http://www.smokefree.net/
  A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces.

• Smoking and Islam

  http://www.islamawareness.net/Smoking/
  Asserts that Islam forbids smoking.

• Smoking Facts

  http://www.smoking-facts.net/
  A collection of smoking facts, statistics, and quotes.

• Smokinghurts.com

  http://www.smokinghurts.com/
  Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research.

• StatesOnTheTake.com

  http://www.statesonthetake.com/
  Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry.

• Taking Down the Marlboro Man

  http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/23/taking_down_the_malboro_man/
  Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC.

• Taking on Tobacco Imperialism

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
  Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.

• Tarbox, Barb

  http://www.aadac.com/79_601.asp
  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.

• The Syrian Center For Tobacco Studies

  http://www.scts-sy.org/
  Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria

• The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage?

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/7/4/393.full
  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.

• Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000

  http://medicolegal.tripod.com/alltcases.htm
  Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.

• Tobacco Control

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/2/141.full
  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 branch limited the scope of the program to adolescents and pregnant women, and prevented it from attacking the tobacco industry or focusing on secondhand smoke."

• Tobacco Free Initiative

  http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
  World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco.

• Tobacco Free U

  http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/
  Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation.

• Tobacco To 21

  http://www.tobacco21.org/
  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.

• Tough on Drugs -- Weak on Tobacco

  http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_12_190600/chapman/chapman.html
  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.

• Virginia GASP home page

  http://www.gasp.org/#factsheets
  Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct.

• Wallgreens.Com

  http://www.wallgreens.com/
  A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products.

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