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Wallgreens.Com - http://www.Wallgreens.com/
A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products. |
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National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) - http://www.cctc.ca
Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada. |
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Health Canada: Tobacco - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hc-ps/tobac-tabac/
Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations. |
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Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/
Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobacco companies use to entice youth as their new customers. |
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Tobacco Free Initiative - http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco. |
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ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health - http://www.ash.org.uk/
Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos. |
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Get Outraged - http://www.getoutraged.com/
"Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary citizens get involved in the fight against Big Tobacco." |
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European Network for Smoking Prevention - http://www.ensp.org/
Active in tobacco control in Europe. |
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Tobacco Free U - http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/
Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation. |
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ASH Australia - http://www.ashaust.org.au/
Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places. |
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Altria Means Tobacco - http://www.altriameanstobacco.com/
Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria. |
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GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network - http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/
A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver. |
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Feel Free to Say No - http://www.feel-free.info/
EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages. |
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The Oxygen Project - http://www.theoxygenproject.com
Grassroots activism for smokefree campus environments. |
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Making it UNCOOL - http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9903.worth.cigs.html
Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products. |
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Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. - http://www.jeffreywigand.com/
Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider' |
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Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco - http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/
Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canada with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. |
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Action on Smoking and Health - Canada - http://www.ash.ca/
Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention. |
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Fight With Fact - http://www.fightwithfact.com/
Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco. |
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Virginia GASP home page - http://www.gasp.org/#factsheets
Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct. |
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Public Citizen: Tobacco - http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/Tobacco/index.cfm
Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation. |
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MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco - http://www.mascotcoalition.org/
Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, and medical costs due to smoking. |
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Tough on Drugs -- Weak on Tobacco - http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_12_190600/chapman/chapman.html
Article in medical journal outlines how and why the government of Australia does little about tobacco, and government funding for tobacco control is small compared to government funding of other public health issues. |
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Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization - http://nosmoking.ws/
Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco. |
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Health Promotion: Global Perspectives - http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/global/2000-09/index.htm
Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally. |
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Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/glantz.html
Covers the Brown and Williamson papers, how they got to Glantz, what we've learned from them about the tobacco industry, how the industry tried to intimidate Glantz and UCSF to suppress them and why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not. |
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Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH) - http://www.thepraxisproject.org/path/
Provides grants, technical assistance, research, and training for tobacco policy advocacy to community groups serving communities of color. |
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Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation - http://ash.org/papers/h201.htm
ASH publication. |
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Give Tobacco The Boot! - http://www.givetobaccotheboot.org
Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos. |
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Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health - http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/
Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers. |
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Taking on Tobacco Imperialism - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. |
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RI Tobacco Control Network - http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/
The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training. |
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Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan - http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/EMROleads-Pakistan.htm
Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion. |
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Action In The War Against Big Tobacco - http://www.cleanlungs.com/action/index.html
Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do. |
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Gayatri Pariwar - http://www.vatikashaktipeeth.com/tobacco/
Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco. |
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Smokinghurts.com - http://www.smokinghurts.com/
Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research. |
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Anti-Smoke Japan - http://www.anti-smoke-jp.com/keneneg.html
English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan. |
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NAAAPI: Tobacco Control Advocacy - http://www.naaapi.org/tobacco/default.asp
The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI) has worked since 1990 to reduce the effects that the tobacco industry has had on the African American community and communities of color. |
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San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project - http://www.polarisinc.com/tobacco/
The San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project fights the pervasive infuence of the tobacco industry in our community. "We used to pick it -- now they want us to smoke it!" |
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StatesOnTheTake.com - http://www.statesonthetake.com/
Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry. |
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Advocating for the Public's Health - http://www.commed.uchc.edu/healthservices/mediaadvoc/default.htm
Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care. |
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Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education - http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/involved/tobacco_background.html
Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action. |
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Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization - http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3972
A report from CorpWatch. |
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Tobacco To 21 - http://www.tobacco21.org/
Ohio-based organization; advocates making 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco. Describes tobacco history; industry promotion; tobacco and health; addiction; costs of tobacco use; use by children; and public policy. |
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Grand Unification Press - http://www.grandupress.com
Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking". |
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Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_8734.htm
Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Switzerland. |
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Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively - http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/qofm/0202a.html
Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world. |
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Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page - http://sklaroff.globalink.org/homepage-tobacco.html
Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco. |
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Taking Down the Marlboro Man - http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/23/taking_down_the_malboro_man/
Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC. |
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Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change - http://www.thepraxisproject.org/tools/advocacy_how_to_tobacco.pdf
Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates. |
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Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry - http://www.alternet.org/story/3519/
Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulation of music to promote smoking. |
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British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/375
The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has developed strategy for dealing with the tobacco industry and its allies by using their stock to challenge issues through shareholder resolutions. |
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Smoking and Islam - http://www.islamawareness.net/Smoking/
Asserts that Islam forbids smoking. |
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Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East - http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/VOICE OF TRUTH.pdf
Report from the WHO Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents tobacco industry front groups, lobbying, PR campaigns, spying on tobacco control organizations, and delaying or blocking anti-tobacco measures in the region. |
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The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage? - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/393
Speech given by Dr. Koop in September 1998. Dr. Koop found the real scandal at the time was Big Tobacco's power in Congress. He gives his reasons for outrage at that scandal, in moving and vivid terms. |
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Tobacco in Developing Countries: Dream Scenario or Shrill Wake-Up Call? - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-12009-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
A slide show countering some of the common myths related to tobacco and developing countries. |
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Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition - http://www.timiskaminghu.com/content.asp?navID=49&parentID=49&lang=en
Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada. |
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Consumer Voice: Tobacco - http://www.consumer-voice.org/tobacco/tobacco1.htm
Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India. |
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Tobacco Control - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/141
Research paper. Extensive and fully documented look at Arizona's Proposition 200. Concludes: "health advocates in Arizona successfully fought tobacco industry attempts to divert the health education funds and pass preemptive legislation. But the executive branch limited the scope of the program to adolescents and pregnant women, and prevented it from attacking the tobacco industry or focusing on secondhand smoke." |
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PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign - http://www.pirg.org/consumer/tobacco/index.htm
Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest. |
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ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control - http://www.astho.org/?template=state_tobacco.html
Programs of the U.S. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to raise the visibility of tobacco prevention and control issues among state health officials and their senior staff. |
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Philip Morris Info Sheet - http://www.stanford.edu/group/SICD/PhilipMorris/pmorris.html
From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus. |
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Tarbox, Barb - http://www.aadac.com/79_601.asp
Victim of smoking-related cancer. Led crusade across Canada to stop children from starting to smoke. Includes story, short commercials she recorded, transcripts of those commercials, and donation information. |
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NYPIRG: Tobacco - http://www.nypirg.org/health/tobacco/
Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do. |
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EMRO Tobacco Free Initiative Homepage - http://www.emro.who.int/tfi/wntd2001/
World Health Organization initiative on tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) provides posters and factsheets on smoking in English and Arabic, Islamic rules and Christian views on smoking. |