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The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit - http://www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org/
Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. "We help pregnant women quit smoking." |
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Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females - http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm
The National Coalition for Women against Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement. |
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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. |
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Independence From Smoking - http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm
National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking. |
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Smoking is a Women's Issue - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry. |
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Women and Smoking - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/
A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links. |
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Smoking Is Ugly - http://www.smokingisugly.com/
Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info. |
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Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women - http://www.nowfoundation.org/health/whp/whp_fact7.html
NOW Foundation fact sheet. |
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Facts on Women and Tobacco - http://www.cdc.gov/women/natstat/smoking.htm
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). |
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Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy - http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children. |
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Smoking: A Guide for Teens - http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women. |
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"You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby" - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28829-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada. |
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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight. |
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A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic - http://www.amsa.org/pdf/womentobaccoprimer.pdf
Report from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women. |
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Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/smoking.htm
Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking. |
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Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction - http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/summaries/frames/smoking-nf.html
"Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation." |
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Tobacco as a Problem for Women - http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm
Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women. |
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Tobacco and Women's Health - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114
Book review of book of same title. |
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Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/113a
Book review. |
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Women and Smoking - http://women.americanlegacy.org/
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones. |
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Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.html
Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women. |
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Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular |
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Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks - http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking. |
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Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer - http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/wgtlc/presentations.php
Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options. |
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Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384
Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report. |
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Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=1728734&dopt=Citation
Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women." |
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Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising - http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's. |
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Cigarette Ads Targetting Women - http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=women&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=55&submit.y=17
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads. |
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This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care? - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10¬Found=true
Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups. |
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The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes - http://wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid=2&diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1
Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal. |