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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000 - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp
Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice. |
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Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting - http://TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com/articles/womens_health/smokingcess_4/index.shtml
Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language. |
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Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand - http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html
Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid's claim that it's taking a stand against heart disease in women. |
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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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You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World - http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-08-08/news/you-re-going-too-far-baby/
Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking = liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally. |
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Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women - http://ash.org/dangers/women.html
According to recent research. |
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Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm
Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher. |
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Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge - http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm
Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action. |
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Virginia SLAM! - http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409
Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. |
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Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke - http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking. |
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June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women - http://www.jrussellshealth.org/smokwomen.html
Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families. |
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Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco - http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group). |
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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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You've Come a Long Way...or Have You? - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.415/pub_detail.asp
From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing. |
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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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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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Women and Tobacco - http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes. |
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Philip Morris: National Expert on Women - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html
Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues". |
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The New Face of Tobacco: Women - http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. |
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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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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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ivillage: Smoking and Women - http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention. |
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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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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco. |
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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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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." |