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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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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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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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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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Smoking is a Women's Issue - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry. |
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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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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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Women More Vulnerable To Tobacco Carcinogens, New Results Show - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090503082340.htm
Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smkoing tobacco, according to new results. |
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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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ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000 - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp
Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice. |
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Ladies Home Journal on Smoking - http://www.lhj.com/home/Quit-Smoking.html
Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms. |
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Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model - http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3152
Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer. |
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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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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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Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia - http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/briefs/four/
Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data. |
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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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Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women - http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/Pages/Smoke2-23.html
Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women. |
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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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Virginia SLAM! - http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409
Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. |
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Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke - http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking. |
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Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks - http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking. |
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Women and Smoking - http://www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.html
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation. |
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Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular |
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Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.html
Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women. |
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Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/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. |
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Cigarette Ads Targetting Women - http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=women&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=55&submit.y=17
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads. |
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This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care? - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10¬Found=true
Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups. |
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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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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight. |