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National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) - http://www.cctc.ca
Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada. |
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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids - http://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. |
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Health Canada: Tobacco - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/tobac-tabac/index_e.html
Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations. |
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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. |
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Get Outraged - http://www.getoutraged.com/
"Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary citizens get involved in the fight against Big Tobacco." |
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International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco - http://www.ingcat.org/
News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials. |
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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. |
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ASH Australia - http://www.ashaust.org.au/
Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places. |
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Cigarette Litter - http://www.cigarettelitter.org/
Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. |
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American Lung Association Action Network - http://lungaction.org/
How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy. |
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Licensed to Kill, Inc. - http://www.licensedtokill.biz/
Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money. |
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Smokefree.net - http://www.smokefree.net/
A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces. |
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GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network - http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/
A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver. |
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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. |
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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. |
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The Oxygen Project - http://www.theoxygenproject.com
Grassroots activism for smokefree campus environments. |
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Feel Free to Say No - http://www.feel-free.info/
EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages. |
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Making it UNCOOL - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9903.worth.cigs.html
Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products. |
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Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco - http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/
Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canada with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. |
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Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. - http://www.jeffreywigand.com/
Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider' |
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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. |
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Fight With Fact - http://www.fightwithfact.com/
Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco. |
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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. |
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Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH) - http://www.thepraxisproject.org/path/
Provides grants, technical assistance, research, and training for tobacco policy advocacy to community groups serving communities of color. |
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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. |
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Michigan Smoke-Free Dining Act Petition Drive - http://www.smokefreediningpetition.com
Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization - http://nosmoking.ws/
Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco. |
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Burning Brain Society - http://www.burningbrain.org
Burning Brain Society is a voluntary Civil Society Organization in India with a focus on tobacco policy and how this affects young people and their future. |
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Smokinghurts.com - http://www.smokinghurts.com/
Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research. |
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Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation - http://ash.org/papers/h201.htm
ASH publication. |
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AntiSmokingAds.org - http://www.antismokingads.org/
Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research. |
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MASSPIRG: Tough On Tobacco - http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=8330&id3=MA&
Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives. |
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Health Promotion: Global Perspectives - http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/global/2000-09/index.htm
Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally. |
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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. |
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RI Tobacco Control Network - http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/
The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training. |
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Nicotine Victims - http://www.nicotinevictims.com
Focus is on tobacco product addiction. |
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The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues - http://www.rxshuster.org/
Award-winning site examines non-health related tobacco industry fraud and false claims issues, presenting authentic tobacco company documents to illustrate tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and claims. Features grassroots programs and interactive content. Offers a related book for publication. |
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ASAP911Tobacco - http://asap911tobacco.com
Individual advocate in Kentucky. |
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Anti-Smoke Japan - http://www.anti-smoke-jp.com/keneneg.html
English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan. |
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Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan - http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/EMROleads-Pakistan.htm
Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion. |
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Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education - http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/involved/tobacco_background.html
Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action. |
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Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 - http://medicolegal.tripod.com/alltcases.htm
Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. |
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NAAAPI: Tobacco Control Advocacy - http://www.naaapi.org/tobacco/default.asp
The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI) has worked since 1990 to reduce the effects that the tobacco industry has had on the African American community and communities of color. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization - http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3972
A report from CorpWatch. |
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Gayatri Pariwar - http://www.vatikashaktipeeth.com/tobacco/
Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco. |
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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. |
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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!" |
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StatesOnTheTake.com - http://www.statesonthetake.com/
Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry. |
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Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively - http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/qofm/0202a.html
Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world. |
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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. |
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Smoking Facts - http://www.smoking-facts.net
A collection of smoking facts, statistics, and quotes. |
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Grand Unification Press - http://www.grandupress.com
Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking". |
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Tobacco Control - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/141
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." |
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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. |
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Advocating for the Public's Health - http://www.commed.uchc.edu/healthservices/mediaadvoc/default.htm
Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care. |
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Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change - http://www.thepraxisproject.org/tools/advocacy_how_to_tobacco.pdf
Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates. |
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British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/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. |
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The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage? - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/393
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. |
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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. |
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Altria Means Tobacco - http://www.altriameanstobacco.com/
Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria. |
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Smoking and Islam - http://www.islamawareness.net/Smoking/
Asserts that Islam forbids smoking. |
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Consumer Voice: Tobacco - http://www.consumer-voice.org/tobacco/tobacco1.htm
Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India. |
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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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NYPIRG: Tobacco - http://www.nypirg.org/health/tobacco/
Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do. |
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Taking on Tobacco Imperialism - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. |
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Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page - http://sklaroff.globalink.org/homepage-tobacco.html
Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco. |