American Heart Association
AHA has a lot of resources on tobacco, cigarettes, smoking, and spit tobacco.
Tackling Tobacco
Programs and information for students, teachers, and health care professionals about tobacco, from Texas A&M.
Tobacco Free Initiative
World Health Organization provides information on tobacco's health impact, secondhand smoke, economics, youth, industry conduct, women and tobacco, and advocacy for tobacco policy change.
The American Legacy Foundation
Promoting tobacco-free generations; vision is to become the preeminent authority in tobacco prevention by funding cutting edge research, marketing and education programs that tell the truth about tobacco use.
American Medical Women's Association
Organization of over 10,000 women physicians and medical students dedicated to the care of the woman patient; letter of support for US federal lawsuit against the tobacco companies.
American Public Health Association
Statement on tobacco control and combating the tobacco industry, paper on the same topics.
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH UK)
Pressure group and registered UK charity, lobbying for a comprehensive national programme to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases. Excellent collection of links and resources. Focus on Europe
American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer
Information about the harmful effects of tobacco, quitting tips, smoking legislation, and risks for children and teens.
The Cancer Council of New South Wales: The Tobacco Web
Fact sheets on the history of smoking, secondhand smoke, young people, women, quitting, cancer, and other health issues.
American College of Chest Physicians
It's the chest physician, the cardiac specialist, or the oncologist, that breaks the prognosis to the family. This website goes to the response of the medical community to preventable disease and death.
Koop Institute
The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth has projects on tobacco, nicotine, addiction, public health.
Trans-Atlantic Conference on Tobacco
Sponsored by the Koop Institute, a group of health care professionals at Cambridge University and at Dartmouth Medical Center met to discuss tobacco policy, research, and prevention/treatment strategies.
Domini Social Investments: Tobacco
Investment firm describes why it will not invest in any companies deriving identifiable revenues from the manufacture of tobacco products.
Georgia Alliance for Tobacco Prevention
Committed to creating a healthier tomorrow where fewer children become addicted to tobacco, fewer people are exposed to secondhand smoke, and tobacco users can find the help they need to quit and remain tobacco-free.
Tobacco use in British Columbia
Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. Summary of the "number one preventable cause of death in British Columbia, killing more than 5,800 people and costing the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars annually."
The Heart Foundation Queensland: Tobacco Control
Information on smokefree lifestyles, smoking versus other causes of death, effects of secondhand smoke on the heart, and holding the tobacco industry accountable.
Research for International Tobacco Control
Mission is to create a strong research, funding and knowledge base for the development of effective tobacco control policies and programs that will minimize the threat of tobacco production and consumption to health and human development in developing countries.
Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board
Tobacco news, tobacco control efforts of the organization.
American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago
Mission is to reduce the pain and suffering caused by lung disease.
Survivors and Victims Empowerment Project
The Survivors and Victims Empowerment program identifies, trains and works with tobacco survivors and acts as a resource for groups in North Carolina. Youth listen and learn when a survivor of a tobacco-related illnes shares their story.
National Network on Tobacco Prevention and Poverty
Mission is to identify resources and advocate for the elimination of tobacco use among the poor.
The Tobacco Web - The Cancer Council NSW
Covers the history of smoking, smoking in Australia, smoking and cancer, secondhand smoke, women and smoking, the tobacco industry, smoking and the environment.
Ontario Medical Association: Tobacco Issues
Papers on secondhand smoke, tobacco industry, stop-smoking medications, smokefree workplaces, cigarette package labelling.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Tobacco research and intervention.
smokefreeVCU.org
Smokefree organization at Virginia Commonwealth University; site features smokefree stories, quit help, posters on smoking and quitting, behavioral strategies for success in beating nicotine.
Tobacco Control Resource Centre
Working with medical associations across Europe to educate doctors, help patients, and inform public policy on tobacco.
tobaccofreedom.org
Education, news, research, and analysis.
Tobacco Dependence Program
Dedicated to reducing the harm to health caused by tobacco, through education, treatment, research and advocacy; a program of the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Cessation guidelines for individuals and clinicians; tobacco-free policies; chemical dependency and nicotine; consultation and training services.
SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness
Trains survivors of tobacco-related illness to speak with children and teens in schools and community groups about smoking and the effects of tobacco products.
Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium
TTAC builds capacity to achieve effective tobacco prevention and control programs and policies, by providing information and technical assistance.
International Union Against Cancer
Cigarette smoking is the greatest avoidable cause of disease and death in the world. This program aims to change attitudes to tobacco use in society and to promote a comprehensive strategy to eradicate tobacco production, sales, promotion, and use. Conferences, tobacco control factsheets, publications, news.
VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control
Conducts research and undertakes policy development work designed to advance tobacco control efforts in Australia and internationally. This site provides information about the centre and its research programs as well as links to important repositories of knowledge on tobacco control both in Australia and Internationally. It is designed for use by researchers, potential researchers, policy makers and advocates.
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