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The American Legacy Foundation - http://www.americanlegacy.org/
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. |
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Koop Institute - http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/koop/
The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth has projects on tobacco, nicotine, addiction, public health. |
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American College of Chest Physicians - http://www.chestnet.org/
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. |
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Action on Smoking and Health - http://www.ash.org.uk/
UK charity provides history, factsheets, schools resources, discussion, policy and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on internal memos. |
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Tobacco Free Initiative - http://tobacco.who.int/
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. |
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Smokefree England - http://www.smokefreeengland.co.uk/
Official site with details of the Smokefree legislation introduced in England on July 1st 2007. |
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Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago - http://www.lungchicago.org
Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago mission is to promote healthy lungs and fight lung disease through research, advocacy, and education. |
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Tobacco Control Resource Centre - http://www.tobacco-control.org/
Working with medical associations across Europe to educate doctors, help patients, and inform public policy on tobacco. |
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Tobacco Dependence Program - http://www.tobaccoprogram.org/
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. |
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Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium - http://www.ttac.org/
TTAC builds capacity to achieve effective tobacco prevention and control programs and policies, by providing information and technical assistance. |
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The Cancer Council of New South Wales: The Tobacco Web - http://www.cancercouncil.com.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369
Fact sheets on the history of smoking, secondhand smoke, young people, women, quitting, cancer, and other health issues. |
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VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control - http://www.vctc.org.au/
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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Tobacco use in British Columbia - http://www.healthservices.gov.bc.ca/tobacco/index.html
Heart and 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." |
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smokefreeVCU.org - http://www.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. |
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tobaccofreedom.org - http://www.tobaccofreedom.org/
Education, news, research, and analysis. |
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SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness - http://www.tobaccosurvivors.org/
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. |
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The Tobacco Web - The Cancer Council NSW - http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=1046
Covers the history of smoking, smoking in Australia, smoking and cancer, secondhand smoke, women and smoking, the tobacco industry, smoking and the environment. |
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Ontario Medical Association: Tobacco Issues - http://www.oma.org/phealth/tobaccomain.htm
Papers on secondhand smoke, tobacco industry, stop-smoking medications, smokefree workplaces, cigarette package labelling. |
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Survivors and Victims Empowerment Project - http://www.main.nc.us/save/
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 illness shares their story. |
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Tackling Tobacco - http://tacklingtobacco.tamhsc.edu/
Programs and information for students, teachers, and health care professionals about tobacco, from Texas A&M. |
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International Union Against Cancer - http://www.uicc.org/index.php?id=707
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 strategy to eradicate tobacco production, sales, promotion, and use. Conferences, tobacco control factsheets, publications, news. |
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Trans-Atlantic Conference on Tobacco - http://www.dartmouth.edu/dms/koop/projects/past/tobacco_conference.shtml
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. |
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American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10.asp?sitearea=PED&level=1
Information about the harmful effects of tobacco, quitting tips, smoking legislation, and risks for children and teens. |