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Smoking: A Guide for Teens - http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women. |
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"You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby" - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28829-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada. |
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Women More Vulnerable To Cigarette Harm - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141163.php
Twin studies reveal that women are more susceptible to lung disease caused by tobacco product. |
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Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384
Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report. |
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Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy - http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children. |
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Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women - http://www.nowfoundation.org/health/whp/whp_fact7.html
NOW Foundation fact sheet. |
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Smoking Is Ugly - http://www.smokingisugly.com/
Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info. |
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Facts on Women and Tobacco - http://www.cdc.gov/women/natstat/smoking.htm
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). |
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Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/smoking.htm
Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking. |
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Women and Smoking - http://women.americanlegacy.org/
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones. |
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Philip Morris: National Expert on Women - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html
Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues". |
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Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco - http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group). |
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June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women - http://www.jrussellshealth.org/smokwomen.html
Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families. |
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Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html
Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart. |
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16. Women and smoking - http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia. |
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Women and Tobacco - http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes. |
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You've Come a Long Way...or Have You? - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.415/pub_detail.asp
From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing. |
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The New Face of Tobacco: Women - http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. |
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Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer - http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/wgtlc/presentations.php
Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options. |
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ivillage: Smoking and Women - http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention. |
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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco. |
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U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s - http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news/text_ABC_smoke&mirrors.html
ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history. |
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Women and Smoking - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/
A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links. |
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Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=1728734&dopt=Citation
Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women." |
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Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising - http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's. |