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• Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health Massive UK scientific report.
  
• UCSF Tobacco Control Archives California has been a leader in tobacco control; UCSF maintains an archive of important documents, including many formerly secret tobacco industry internal memos.
  
  
• Smoking Kills Short Break, Long Rest -- anti smoking computer animation to download. Requires Quicktime.
  
• NoSmokingArt Art depicting anti-smoking messages.
  
• Documents on Tobacco, Nicotine, Smoking, Cigarettes Tobacco documents, secret documents, tobacco sites, smoking-related news, addresses, history, movie and book lists, health info, quit-smoking, spit tobacco.
  
• San Francisco Medical Society Online: Substance Abuse and Tobacco Articles on addiction, tobacco, cessation, and progress in treatment.
  
• Cigarette Smoking Teaching Unit Instructional unit from Teacher's College Columbia emphasizes a global approach; covers harm cause by smoking, benefits of quitting.
  
• Engle Trial News Large collection of articles, notes, and commentary on the Engle trial in Florida.
  
• Dr. Koop Speech on Tobacco Addiction Keynote speech at symposium by C. Everett Koop covers history, policy, industry strategy, product effects, public health responses.
  
• Fact Sheets About Smoking and Tobacco Collected by the Nonsmokers Movement of Australia.
  
• Tobaccopedia - The Tobacco Encyclopedia Organized compendium of online resources on tobaco, active smoking, passive smoking, addiction, pharmacology, chemistry, cessation, economics, youth, women, smokefree homes and workplaces, effects on the environment, and more.
  
• Science, Tobacco and You Multidisciplinary, multimedia, science curriculum resource that addresses tobacco use and prevention through student questions and answers.
  
• Bearing Witness for Tobacco Article on expert witnesses for the tobacco industry; concludes "plenty of independent scholars, when paid enough money, are evidently willing to lend their names to...what would be dubious scholarship in any other context."
  
• GLOBALink: Selected Images Anti-smoking posters, ads, animated GIFs, videos.
  
• Anne Landman's Daily Documents Presentation and analysis of confidental industry memos and papers includes youth programs; PR analysis and campaigns; attempts to influence science, media and government; studies of its customers; the "youth market"; and more.
  
• Tobacco-Free Ways- Pima County, AZ Dedicated to eliminating tobacco dependency in Pima County through innovative tobacco prevention and cessation programs.
  
• National Drug Strategy Network: Tobacco Pages Mostly news summaries from secondary sources.
  
• Risk Management Internet Services - Tobacco For-pay site, providing subscribers with information about tobacco.
  
• Prevention Activities for Teachers, Nurses and Young People Information and an interactive quiz for use in schools and youth clubs. Downloadable lesson plans and smoking policies. Resources available to the people of Manchester (UK) including list of smokefree restaurants.
  
• Nicotine Addiction to Disease: Growing Up With the Tobacco Industry Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute materials covers history and consequences of tobacco use.
  
• North Carolina Prevention Partners Tobacco control news and facts in the state.
  
• Smoking From All Sides A simple directory of smoking links and sites, including pro-tobacco and anti-tobacco.
  
• WHO Bulletin July 2000 Report on the global picture: hooked before their teens; women's special risks; the games Big Tobacco plays; a global treaty; measuring the world's smoking habits.
  
• Submission to Senate Inquiry into the Tobacco Industry - 1994 Shortened version of the "Time for Action" submission by the Non-Smokers' Movement of Australia provides a terse summary of tobacco's effects, marketing, industry influence, public health significance, social response, history.
  
• Resources on Smoking and Big Tobacco Tobacco related websites from Mother Jones magazine and beyond.
  
• Call - Tobacco Use The "Tobacco" section of a language analysis project at Ohio University. Definitions of terms, links to anti-tobacco and pro-tobacco sites.
  
• LifeScape: Article - LifeRecovery - Nicotine Capsule, consumer-health-oriented reviews of the issues: nicotine, addiction, health effects, recovery, secondhand smoke.
  
• Wyoming Tobacco Prevention Project. Aims to build a healthier Wyoming by telling the truth about tobacco, Wyoming's most deadly, costly addiction. Factsheets, papers, smokefree dining in Wyoming.
  
• After the Fall: The Cigarette Papers, the Global Settlement, and the Future of Tobacco Litigation Paper from the Southern Carolina School of Law outlines history of the tobacco industry and tobacco litigation, summarizes industry conduct, and what the documents have reveald about the industry, specifically what they knew and when they knew it.
  
• Smoking History, Facts, Costs, Effects, Secondhand Smoke, Quitting Lecture notes from a class at Framingham State College.
  
• Tell the Truth! If Tobacco Ads Really Told the Truth...
  
• House of Commons - Smoking and Health - Second Report UK scientific report on smoking in Britain, awareness of the health effects of active smoking, passive smoking,nicotine addiction, the tobacco industry in Briain, and more.
  
• Tobacco Action Pack Designed to be used by students and contains the latest information from international studies in an easy-to-read format. Covers history and contents of cigarette product, and what it does to the customer.
  
• Proposed US Federal Tobacco Legislation Tech Law Journal summary of bills pertaining to tobacco sales and ads on the Internet.
  
• Hispanics and Tobacco Report finds tobacco products are heavily advertised and promoted to Hispanic communities. Examples include "Rio" and "Dorado" cigarettes, billboard and storefront advertising in Hispanic neighborhoods, and support of Hispanic organizations.
  
• Program Training & Consultation Centre Provides training and consultation services to enhance the capacity of Ontario communities to implement effective community-based tobacco use reduction strategies.
  
• How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.
  
• Smoking? No! Gateway to information about anti-tobacco and non-smoking information on the Internet world wide. Books, organizations and products.
  
• NCI Monographs "Cigarette smoking remains the single, major preventable cause of cancer deaths in the United States, far surpassing any other known environmental agents or risk factors." From the National Cancer Institute, papers on tobacco and the clinician, community based interventions for smokers, cigars, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and more.
  
• C-Health - Associations Library: Smoking FAQ from Canoe-Health covers 50 most commonly asked questions on smoking and health.
  
• Public Versus Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry From the book The Cigarette Papers, footnoted table documents 30 years of public and private statements made by the tobacco industry regarding nicotine and addiction.
  
• University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network Network of University of Michigan scholars, spanning many disciplines in numerous UM schools and colleges, who share an interest in tobacco and nicotine related research. Tobacco websites, news and events, research.
  
• Philippe Boucher's Rendez Vous Inverviews with major figures in tobacco control.
  
• Tobacco and Cancer Factsheets, news, and publications from UICC.
  
• The British-American Tobacco Document Collection Archive maintained by UCSF provides search and browse access to over 6000 BAT documents from the 1950's to the 1990's. Documents cover BAT's marketing, research and development, cigarette analysis and design, and business in developing countries. BAT's efforts toward developing new, "safer" cigarettes gradually change into efforts to make consumers believe that certain cigarettes (low-tar, and the like) are safer.
  
• Kickbutt.org Learning Center Factsheets on health effects of tobacco use, nicotine addiction, youth and tobacco, secondhand smoke, excise taxes on tobacco products, tobacco industry advertising, ethnicity and tobacco, smokeless tobacco, the tobacco industry, cigars; all factsheets with citations for each fact.
  
• Canoe-Health: Smoking Health news and features from C-Health in Canada.
  
• TobaccoWeek Tobacco news, resources & information for the tobacco control professional engaged in policy development and implementation and tobacco users looking for effective ways to quit smoking.
  
• Tobacco Road Special project at McGill Medical School. Cigarettes, smoking, quitting, secondhand smoke.
  
• Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Overview Collection of stories on tobacco from the Washington Post.
  
• News TOPIC: Smoking From the Heart Information Network, a summary of news items pertaining to cigarettes and smoking.
  
• Patrick Reynolds Motivational speaker and anti-tobacco public relations expert speaking at community events and school assembly programs on the dangers of tobacco use and influence of tobacco industry advertising campaigns.
  
• Tobacco Education for Low Literacy Readers From First to Last Ash: The History, Economics, and Hazards of Tobacco. Sample pages online; information on ordering.
  
• Smoke & Mirrors: The Canadian Tobacco War Complete online book (370 pages in printed form) covers tobacco history, issues, players, strategy, and industry in Canada.
  
• Tobacco Program Resources Materials on cessation, protection, and prevention for both end user and intermediaries.
  
• Tobacco Facts for the Clinician Spit tobacco, cigarettes, cigar and pipe, promotion, nicotine addiction, costs of tobacco, clinical interventions.
  
• WebMD: Smoking and Other Tobacco-Related Dependencies General interest articles on smoking, disease, quitting, prevention.
  
• Pack of Lies: The Advertising of Tobacco Video on tobacco advertising features media experts.
  
• Tobacco and Health Short articles from Facts on File.
  
• Tobacco Litigation Documents Developed by Northeastern University and maintained by UCSF; provides access to key litigation documents from the cases brought by the Attorneys General against the tobacco industry. Can search or group by state.
  
• Tobacco Names Names of people involved in tobacco; some with short descriptions of the involvement; a work in progress.
  
• MEDLINEplus: Smoking Medical emphasis; factsheets, clinical trials, prevention/screening, news, organizations, statistics, particular populations.
  
• Health Education Inc. Research Promotion Prevention Tobacco prevention and education for Nebraska children and communities. News, legislation, art & more.
  
• Smoke gets in your eyes Whyfiles on: why is smoking so addictive? Does cigarette advertising influence kids to smoke? And related questions.
  
• National Cancer Institute Publication Index Reports on lung cancer, spit tobacco, quitting, and issues for physicians, dentists, health professionals, smokers, and the public. Some publications in Spanish.
  
• Smokefree Lifestyle Factsheets from the Cancer Society of New Zealand on passive smoking, quitting, smoking and pregnancy, remaining a non-smoker after pregnancy, protecting children from secondhand smoke, smoking facts for Maori, and more.
  
• Tobacco Study Guide The University of Cincinnati, Department of Family Medicine, says tobacco should be part of every medical school's curriculm, but seldom is; the University has assembled this guide that provides a sample tobacco curriculum.
  
• Morbidity and Mortality Reports on Tobacco Organizes the Center for Disease Control's reports that concern tobacco over the last several years.
  
• Smokers Prayer Large list of links and resources compiled by an ex-smokers with COPD. Introduced by her own poem, the Smoker's Prayer.
  
• Nicotine Addiction Research report from the National Institute on Drug Abuse. Covers nicotine, addiction, extent and impact of tobacco use, medical consequences, quit statistics and methods, gender differences.
  
• Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Health Issues Collection of stories from the Washington Post, such as "1980 Philip Morris Memo Spoke of Need to Hide Nicotine Studies" and "Cancer Institute Calls Cigars As Hazardous as Cigarettes".
  
• 2000 Tobacco Use Prevention Training Institute 6th Annual Tobacco Use Prevention Training Institute( TUPTI) will be held on September 17 2000 in Denver, Colorado.
  
• NIEHS 9th Report on Carcinogens Evaluation of substances by scientists from the National Toxicology Program has listing that includes Environmental Tobacco Smoking, Tobacco Smoke, and Smokeless Tobacco.
  
• Entertaining Educational Programs on Substance Abuse Tobacco Prevention Programs for K thru 12, highly informative and inspirational in its use of theater skits,mime, circus arts, comedy, and music, which keeps the show from being a lecture.
  
• Smoking Behaviours of Australian Adults in 1995 Research paper summarizes prevalence, consumption, demographics, trends.
  
• Tobacco Use From the Mountain States Community Health Project, an online education module on tobacco; covers nicotine addiction, cigarette use by young people, the financial cost and health consequences of tobacco use, spit tobacco and cigars, and how to quit.
  
• Up In Smoke: The FTC's Refusal to Apply the "Unfairness Doctrine" to Camel Cigarette Advertising Legal journal article analyzes whether the FTC legally could have undertaken action against the Joe Camel advertising campaign.
  
• Health 20/20: Tobacco Essays Essays on tobacco, tobacco control, tobacco promotion, and patterns of use.
  
• Nicotine In Cigarettes and Smokeless Tobacco FDA research into nicotine pharmacology, industry research, marketing of cigarettes and spit tobacco products, nicotine manipulation; most in PDF format.
  
• CDC's tobacco stats -- state by state Center for Disease Control has hosted a database that you can look up your state's tobacco use, break it down by cigarette/cigar/pipe/spit tobacco, and get lots of other stats.
  
• Together Against Tobacco Conference proceedings; papers on tobacco and poverty; cessation; why people start smoking; measuring progress.
  
• Tobacco Dentistry Program Lecture outlines for tobacco; educadtion program; tobacco and periodontal diseases; tobacco induced and associated oral conditions; spit tobacco; cigar; secondhand smoke; nicotine addiction; stages of quitting; cessation clinical practice guidelines; quitting pamphlets; quitting aids.
  
• State of Health Products Anti-tobacco ID tags, T-shirts, posters, buttons, magnets, wall signs, bookmarks, headbands, and the now-obligatory mouse pads.
  
• JAMA Tobacco Issue Special issue on tobacco of The Journal of the American Medical Association, August 9, 2000, Volume 284, No. 6.
  
• Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke Factsheets on tobacco, secondhand smoke, the tobacco industry, cigarette sales, and more.
  
• Health & Prevention Videos Videos for instructional use or presentations; includes "Selling Addiction" and "Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered".
  
• British Medical Journal, 5 August 2000 Tobacco is the theme of this issue; articles on health policy, lung cancer, passive smoking, tobacco dependence, tobacco litigation.
  
• Smoke Signals Greeting cards for all occasions that express smoke-free wishes: hoping you'll quit, etc. Also some truly graphic images of lung reduction surgery, looking for the tumor.
  
• Tobacco News and Tobacco Legal Help News on what's happening in the industry; find tobacco attorneys and other tobacco resources.
  
• Smoking kills! In English and Slovenian. Put together by three students from Slovenia.
  
• Film Ideas: Smoking and Substance Abuse Instructional films and videos on tobacco and substance abuse.
  
• Cochrane Tobacco Addiction Group Abstracts Abstracts of Cochrane Reviews of the scientific literature on: different methods of quitting smoking, prevention, and protection from secondhand smoke.
  
• Smoking and African-Americans Factsheet looks at the impact of tobacco on the African American community.
  
• Tar Wars National poster contest for fourth- and fifth-graders on tobacco-free lifestyles.
  
• GASP of Colorado Education Center Tobacco information resources ranging from the costs to society to the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke.
  
• Kickbutt.org News Searchable, browseable archive of tobacco news stories from 1996 through 1999.
  
• Health Canada: Tobacco Reduction Mission is to help Canadians to become and remain smoke-free through the provision of appropriate information pertaining to tobacco prevention, protection and cessation.
  
• GALEN II Publications UCSF publications on tobacco include analysis of industry documents, reports on industry influence in government, and more.
  
• Dying to Quit Book on smoking.
  
• Tobacco Advertising - Smoke-Free For Life Smoking prevention curriculum, including handouts, tips, study guides; focus is on enabling students to become aware of pro-smoking media influences and marketing techniques.
  
• Smoke and mirrors Large collection of links on smoking and health, marketing of tobacco products, laws and litigation, advocacy and organizations concerned with smoking.
  
• Public Health Achievements - Tobacco Use CDC report on public health achievement:recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard; past successes, future challenges.
  
• GLOBALink: Secret Documents from the Minnesota Depository Papers reviewing industry internal documents: Tobacco industry campaign against advertising bans in the 1980's; Industry recruitment of scientific experts; industry attitudes revealed by editing; files relevant to women; and more.
  
• eBMJ -- Collected Resources: Smoking Recent articles on smoking from the British Medical Journal .
  
• The Deal With Smoking How it works; how people get hooked; why it's so hard to quit; tips for quitting.
  
• Tobacco Smoking College student paper includes examples of cigarette ads, smoking trends in the 1930s and 1940s, and even cigarette etiqette, according to Emily Post.
  
• Tobacco Wars Quoatations from "Tobacco Wars" a BBC documentary on the history and politics of tobacco, broadcast in July/August 1999.
  
• Secrets Through The Smoke Educational video available free from CDC features Dr. Jeffrey Wigand; intended primarily for use with middle and high school students, but can also be used with community leaders and policymakers, and as a training video for nonprofit health organizations.
  
• Smoke Free Jacksonville Dedicated to reducing tobacco use and educating the public in Jacksonville, Florida.
  
• Tobacco Use: The Facts - The Daily Apple Smoking is the most preventable cause of death in our society. During 1995, approximately 2.1 million people in developed countries died as a result of smoking. Overview of stats, public policy, related issues.
  
• Cigarettes, Smoking, and Health Slide presentation from Biology class at Framingham State College.
  
• Surgeon General's Reports Includes the first 1964 report, and the reports in 1981, 1988, 1989, 1994, 1998, and 2000.
  
• Tobacco Control Update Quarterly news magazine covering news events in Massachusetts and U.S. tobacco control, legal policy, and legislative affairs.
  
• Tobacco control resource centre Promotes tobacco control activity among national medical associations; encourages doctors to stop smoking; provides research and improves knowledge of skills in smoking cessation through its information database.
  
• Health Care Information Resources on Smoking From McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, some health, policy, and activism links on smoking and tobacco.
  
• Galen II tobacco resources UCSF university library section on tobacco, nicotine, smoking, and law, mass media, and archives. Extensive set of publications, analysis, and links.
  
• CDC's State and National Tobacco Info - 1999 Edition State by state statistics on smoking, broken down by age and education level, medical costs related to smoking, related state legislation.
  
• BBC News | Smoking Collection of stories from the BBC.
  
• World No-Tobacco Day 1999 Pamphlet from the American Association for World Health outlines local and global effects of tobacco, how people get hooked, quitting methods, and activities for World No-Tobacco Day.
  
• Pyramid Media: Tobacco Videos Produces and distributes educational videos on smoking, tobacco, and the tobacco industry, from classics like "Death in The West" to recent releases like "Smoke & Mirrors: A History of Denial".
  
• Tobacco: Health Up In Smoke Papers on Controlling Tobacco Use; Tobacco Epidemic: Historical Lessons; Targets of Cigarette Advertising; Marketing Cigarettes to Children.