| Advocacy Institute |
This Web site offers a comprehensive news database of articles from the nation's four largest newspapers as well as a wealth of information on all aspects of the tobacco issue.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education (ALCASE) |
The Alliance for Lung Cancer is devoted solely to the issues facing people with lung cancer. This page provides background information and links to other related sites.
Categories: Health | Policy |
| American Cancer Society (ACS) |
This page of the ACS Web site is dedicated to tobacco-related cancers and their effects on society. Topics covered include smoking-related cancers, environmental tobacco smoke, and other tobacco-related health issues. The ACS has followed the lung cancer epidemic, which is covered on this page. This Web page is devoted to helping cigarette smokers quit.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) |
The ACCP Web site covers many topics related to cardiopulmonary diseases including smoking-related diseases. There is an extensive page of links to other related Web sites.
Category: Health |
| American Heart Association (AHA) |
The AHA Web site covers topics related to cardiac health including smoking-related risk for heart disease and stroke.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| American Legacy Foundation (ALF) |
The American Legacy Foundation was mandated as a term of the Master Settlement Agreement between the tobacco companies and 46 states. The Foundation was established to reduce the use of tobacco in the United States, particularly among America's youth. There are pages at this site for general tobacco use information; current research and education efforts; and advocacy efforts.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| American Lung Association (ALA) |
The ALA Web site covers topics related to lung disorders, particularly COPD and asthma and has a number of pages dealing with smoking-related risks, smoking cessation, and information for kids about the dangers of smoking.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| American Medical Association (AMA) |
The AMA has a searchable database of articles on smoking-related issues, including some full-text articles.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| American Medical Women's Association (AMWA) |
The AMWA's Web site offers information on a comprehensive list of health issues for women, including a page on the impact of smoking on women.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| Boston University School of Public Health |
http://www.quitnet.org offers information on current tobacco-related health issues and cessation techniques. http://www.jointogether.org includes information on tobacco-related advocacy and policy issues.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| California Dental Association |
This Web site provides resources for Health-Care providers and the general public on how to stop using smokeless tobacco; it includes posters, videos, pictures, and links to other helpful resources.
Categories: Cessation | Health |
| Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids |
This excellent Web site is devoted to helping kids become tobacco-free. The topics covered include the history of tobacco, tobacco policy, tobacco control, facts about tobacco use, tobacco statistics, research studies, etc.
Categories: Ad History | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) |
The CDC has an extensive and comprehensive Web site for tobacco-related issues that includes pages for relevant Surgeon General's Reports, research and data relevant to tobacco and smoking, cessation, tips for kids and teens, and extensive links to other relevant Web sites.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco (C.O.S.T.) |
This Web page was created by 43 middle school students who want to keep tobacco out of the hands of other kids. The site has strong antismoking messages for kids with a good segment on current advertising efforts aimed at kids.
Categories: Ad History | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Doctors Ought to Care (DOC) |
http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/doc offers a comprehensive look at the history of tobacco advertising and an archive of tobacco-related journal articles. http://www.kickbutt.org is devoted to youth advocacy efforts for smoking cessation and tobacco-use prevention. Visitors can email their state representatives and review fact sheets on smoking and health.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) |
The EPA Web site can be searched for documents relating to tobacco smoke. Most will be about environmental smoke.
Category: Policy |
| Foundation for a Smokefree America |
This excellent Web site offers comprehensive information on a myriad of tobacco-related topics including Web pages for young people, smoking cessation, press releases, advocacy issues, and an extensive set of links to other tobacco-related Web sites.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Indiana Tobacco Control Center (Medical Education Resources Program/Division of Continuing Medical Education (Indiana University [MERP/CME]) |
This comprehensive Web site covers areas such as tobacco control, tobacco control laws, the history of tobacco in America, and resources for physicians and Health-Care providers.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| International Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) |
This Web site provides international information on women and tobacco and has fact sheets, tobacco-related links in several countries, and information on securing a set of slides. The talk that INWAT's president presented at the WHO International Conference on Tobacco, Kobe, Japan, in 1999 can be accessed through this Web page.
Categories: Ad History | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Massachusetts Department of Public Health |
This site helps people stop smoking with a "Quit Wizard" that supports them through the difficult process with information, a calendar, a savings calculator, and more. Smokers also will be inspired by quitting "success stories." Plus, there is a section for those who want to help others quit.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health |
| Mayo Clinic Rochester |
This Web page is devoted to smoking cessation and provides information on quitting tips and methods, information for Health-Care providers, nicotine dependence, and medications, among others.
Category: Cessation |
| Monitoring the Future, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan |
Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults and includes statistical tables and figures of the data from the study.
Categories: Cessation | Health | Policy |
| National Cancer Institute (NCI) |
NCI's Web page has information on the various types of cancer, including those related to tobacco use.
Category: Health |
| National Drug Strategy Network (NDSN) |
The NDSN Web page is primarily concerned with issues related to drug usage and drug treatment with information on tobacco use prevention and tobacco control.
Categories: Cessation | Policy |
| National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) |
The NIDA Web page includes a number of reports and articles on nicotine addition and smoking cessation efforts.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health |
| National Institutes of Health (NIH) |
This searchable Web site has a broad range of information including cancer statistics, clinical trials, general research, access to MEDLINE, and general health topics.
Category: Health |
| Smokescreen Action Network |
This Web page is devoted to advocacy and action efforts to curtail tobacco use and has pages on local and national alerts, interactive links, chat rooms, among others.
Category: Policy |
| The State Tobacco Information Center |
Because the litigation with the tobacco companies has been settled, this Web page is used as an archive site for documents that relate to the litigation. The site offers a resource library of documents, past and present, related to the tobacco companies' settlement with the states.
Category: Policy |
| Tobacco Control Resource Center (TCRC) |
The TCRC Web page is maintained by Northeastern University School of Law. Topics covered include the Canadian government's lawsuit against R. J. Reynolds, international tobacco issues, Supreme Court rulings affecting tobacco control, advocacy issues, access to their Tobacco Control Update newsletter, and links to other Web sites.
Category: Policy |
| U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) |
The FDA Web site includes a compliance checker for retailers of cigarettes, a toll-free number to report retailers who sell tobacco to children, updates on the latest tobacco-related news, and a second on U.S. regulations regarding the sale of tobacco. There is also a page devoted to kids and tobacco.
Categories: Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
Girl Power! is the national public education campaign sponsored by the Department of the Health and Human Services to help encourage and motivate 9- to 14-year-old girls to make the most of their lives and has information on the dangers of tobacco use. The Web site provides information for adults as well as girls. There are links to other appropriate sites for girls as well as chat rooms for girls.
Categories: Girls | Health |
| World Health Organization |
The World Health Organization's Web site can be searched for tobacco-related topics, with links to related Web sites by country of origin. There are also links to conferences, the various tobacco companies, journal citation databases, among others.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
| Youth Media Network, California Department of Health Services |
This Web site is funded by California's tobacco tax initiative Proposition 99. The site provides information on the latest tobacco company news and facts on tobacco advertising expenditures. There are pages for kids and smoking cessation as well as links to other organizations.
Categories: Ad History | Cessation | Girls | Health | Policy |
