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	State System - http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/statesystem/ CDC report provides demographics of cigarette usage in each state.
	Communication Initiative Network - http://www.comminit.com/ Numerous papers and summary introductions to programs on smoking and health worldwide.
	A tobacco-free Europe - http://www.euro.who.int/tobaccofree Publications, factsheets, and reports compiled by WHO and other organizations on the effects and trends of tobacco use in Europe.
	Tobacco Control Archives - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ Collection of papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues. Provided by the University of California, San Francisco.
	Tobacco Control Archives - http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ is a central, organized source of information on tobacco. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.

	Smoke-Free Families - http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/ Innovations to stop smoking during and beyond pregnancy: a new national partnership that can dramatically improve the health of mothers and their babies, while saving lives and cutting health care costs.
	Economics of Tobacco Control - http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/ World Bank economics of tobacco control site provides information, analyses, reviews and links to help researchers and policymakers and to assist governments to choose and implement effective tobacco control measures.
	California Tobacco Policy Experience - http://www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/ Papers and factsheets on adult smoking trends in California; California's tobacco education media campaign; do doctors advise their smoker patients to quit smoking; the response of Californians to secondhand smoke; youth smoking trends in California.
	Position Statement on Tobacco on College and University Campuses - http://www.acha.org/info_resources/tobacco_statement.pdf American College Health Associations outlines a recommended policy for college campuses, aiming at providing smokefree environments and achieving tobacco use reduction.
	Testimony on Smoking Cessation - http://www.ahrq.gov/news/stat0298.htm "Other than immunization, smoking cessation is the most cost-effective prevention intervention for adults"

	Motorsport Sponsorship as a Vehicle for Tobacco Prevention - http://www.social-marketing.com/sponsorship.html Paper presented at a conference on social marketing analyses the effectiveness of an innovative tobacco prevention program: sponsoring a race car.
	Tobacco Control Policy Briefing Papers - http://www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/index.htm Papers from the Advocacy Institute on preemption; treating tobacco dependence; counter advertising; secondhand smoke; youth access; special populations.
	Making the Case: Counter Advertising as a Tobacco Use Deterrent - http://www.advocacy.org/publications/mtc/counterads.htm Counter advertising can be effective, but its effectiveness depends on factors such as adequate, long term funding; ability to administer the campaign from political interference; a broad-based focus rather than one exclusively tragetting children.
	Tobacco, Health and the Law - http://academic.udayton.edu/health/syllabi/tobacco/ Syllabus, reading lists, and online reading materials for a course given at The University of Dayton Law School. Covers history; populations and demographics; proposed laws, regulation, and litation; tobacco and the third world countries.
	Tobacco Control Resource Center - http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/ Information on tobacco products and manufacturer liability from Northeastern University School of Law in Boston

	Smoking Cessation is Cost Effective - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/278/21/1759 Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that smoking cessation programs are cost-effective.
	Curbing the Epidemic - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/wb/ Complete online book. "About 500 million people alive today will eventually be killed by tobacco use". Global Trends in Tobacco Use; The Health Consequences of Smoking; Do Smokers Know Their Risks and Bear Their Costs? Measures to Reduce the Demand for Tobacco; Measure to Reduce the Supply of Tobacco; The Costs and Consequences of Tobacco Control; An Agenda for Action.
	Smoking - Dohányzás - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/hungary/ Smoking at the threshold of the year 2000: situation report on Hungary.
	Smoking is a Major Cause of Blindness - http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/171_4_160899/mitchell/mitchell.html Editorial in a health journal considers the scientific and policy merits of a new pack warning.
	Tobacco Control and the Precede-Proceed Model - http://www.lgreen.net/hpp/appendix.htm Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.

	Inside Indonesia: Worshipping cancer sticks - http://www.insideindonesia.org/edit56/reynld.htm News article reports "the tobacco industry keeps the government afloat, but at a huge cost in ordinary lives."
	The Master Settlement Agreement and the Future of State and Local Tobacco Control - http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/tobacco_control/resources/msa/index.html Paper provides a legal and public policy analysis of selected topics and provisions of the multistate Master Settlement Agreement of November 23, 1998, including effects on other legal actions, tobacco advertising, youth access, lobbying, and the national foundation.
	IPF 2003 - Tobacco Economics Research and Advocacy - http://www.policy.hu/radu Policy research in Romania seeks to analyse the factors affecting tobacco consumption in that country.
	Tobacco: A Legal and Policy Issue of the Elderly - http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/clearinghouse.htm Policy paper examines impact of tobacco on older people: addiction, secondhand smoke, smoking cessation and health care coverage, smokefree environments for children and grandchildren.
	The Epidemiology of Smoking in Ukraine - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4851/index.htm Slides from a college lecture reporting the results of a cross sectional survey undertaken in 2000.

	Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The Case of Tobacco Control - http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=180614 Journal article examines the arguments for and against using litigation as a policy tool, with specifics drawn from tobacco control.
	Restricting Youth Access to Tobacco: Does it Reduce Youth Tobacco Consumption? - http://www.no-smoke.org/document.php?id=395 Summary of the research by ANR concludes the evidence is poor that youth access strategies are effective in reducing consumption.
	California's Anti-Tobacco Campaign Sees Fewer Lung Cancer Deaths - http://www.nurseweek.com/news/features/01-02/smoke.asp Nursing Week article discusses a payoff of California's anti-tobacco campaign: fewer lung cancer and bronchial cancer deaths.
	State and Local Tobacco Control Programs and Evaluation - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3121.htm Poster session from health conference examines a number of programs focusing on the community or local level.
	Case Studies in Tobacco Control Policy Development - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1443.htm Abstracts from conference presentations.

	Review of Smoking Prevention and Control Strategies - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/47 Review of measured results of different prevention and tobacco control strategies.
	In Memory of James Beattie Morison M.D. - http://www3.telus.net/public/james135/jamesbeattiemorisonmd.htm Includes three papers Dr. Morison wrote on smoking in Canadian children, 1960 through 1982.
	Smoke Free Europe - A Forum for Networks - http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/index.html October 1996 conference in Helsinki.
	How to Fight Big Tobacco and Win - http://www.ahealthyme.com/topic/bigtobacco Describes anti-tobacco programs in California, Minnesota, and Massachusetts.
	State Programs Can Reduce Tobacco Use - http://books.nap.edu/html/state_tobacco/ National Cancer Policy Board report. Report covers: what is the evidence that state programs make a difference? counteradvertising and education; establishing smokefree workplaces and public spaces; increasing prices through taxation; supporting treatment programs for tobacco dependence; reinforcing youth access restrictions; monitoring performance and evaluating programs.

	Smoking Set to Kill Millions in China - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/466401.stm Researchers find a rapid rise in tobacco use in China, where half the smokers surveyed do not know it causes cancer.
	SlideShare: Litigation in Tobacco Contrl - http://www.slideshare.net/burningbrain/court-cases-against-tobacco-industry-presentation/ Slide presentation on tobacco industry tactics and use of litigation as a public health tool.
	State's Antismoking Ads Working, But So Are Prosmoking Ads - http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2000/03-24/features1.html Research finds that antismoking ads from health groups do decrease smoking, but prosmoking ads from cigarette companies likewise increase smoking.
	CECHE Tobacco Policy Fact Sheets - http://www.ceche.org/publications/factshts/fctshts.htm Set of short papers from CECHE, a private nonprofit health policy organization. Addresses US policy that affects international tobacco use; tobacco advertising and promotion; women and tobacco; smuggling.
	Tobacco control advocates must demand high-quality media campaigns: the California experience - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/397 Paper based on media research and analysis of California's tobacco education campaign. Everyone asks what works in anti-smoking education: here are answers.

	Death and Tobacco Taxes - http://www.rje.org/abstracts/abstracts/1996/Summer_1996._pp._415_428.html Health and economic analysis concludes that a 10% increase in tobacco tax would save over 5,000 lives a year.
	Tobacco: A Global Killer - http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/pdf/globalkiller.pdf Short factsheet outlines and provides examples of massive tobacco promotion around the globe, and summarizes the consequences.
	Scientific Basis for Various Regulatory Aapproaches for Tobacco - http://tgorski.com/news_analysis/nicotine_addiction_Henningfield_010629.htm Testimony by Dr. Jack Henningfield on the health effects of tobacco and the scientific basis for various regulatory approaches.
	Presentation by Dr. Fenton Howell, Irish Medical Organisation. - http://www.irlgov.ie/committees-99/c-health/Rep-Evidence/page10.htm Presentation made to the Joint Committee on health and CHildren of the Houses of the Oireachtas, Parliament of Ireland, on tobacco and health.
	New Canadian Tobacco Package Warnings Effective - http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/01/09/canadian.cigarettes/ Research shows the new graphic Canadian cigarette warnings are effective.

	Do Workplace Smoking Bans Reduce Smoking? - http://papers.nber.org/papers/W5567/ Economic research examines the effect of smokefree workplaces on tobacco product consumption.
	California's Anti-Tobacco Media Campaign - http://www2.vhi.ie/topic/casmoking Article on California's anti-smoking ads, what works, and how to have impact with a fraction of the money that the industry spends promoting tobacco.
	Koop-Kessler Report on Tobacco Policy and Public Health. - http://ash.org/areport.html Facts, findings, and recommendations on regulatory policy, research policy, public education, youth and tobacco, performance objectives, current users of tobacco products, secondhand smoke, and future of the tobacco industry and of tobacco control efforts.
	Country Case Studies - http://www.essentialaction.org/country.html Examines China, Mexico, Viet Nam, Russia, Romania, Poland, Senegal, South Africa.
	Final Report of The Advisory Committee on Tobacco Policy and Public HealthAction on Smoking and Health (ASH) - http://ash.org/report2.html The Koop-Kessler report, nicely HTML-ized.

	Tobacco Profile for Denmark - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/eu-docs/denmark Summary of smoking and tobacco statistics.
	Tobacco Epidemic: Health Dimensions - http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact154.html WHO factsheet. "Half a billion people now alive will be killed by tobacco products" and other descriptions of the size of the problem.
	Tobacco Death Toll - http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/hnp/hddflash/hcnote/hrn001.html 1993 World Bank policy paper: magnitude of the problem; economic costs; what can be done; policy recommendations.
	Tobacco Control in Arizona: A Roundtable - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3331.htm Summary of recent experiences and results in programs to reduce tobacco use.
	HoltzReport: Tobacco Control - http://nasw.org/users/holtza/tob_links.htm Index of and links to tobacco control stories and research by independent journalist Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent and Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. Includes analyses of the Truth campaign in Florida and the ballot campaign that raised the tobacco tax in Oregon. Also, links to NPR archives and other information on tobacco issues.

	Smoking Is Not The Answer - http://whydoyousmoke.tripod.com Short student film promoting non-smoking. Available in QuickTime or RealPlayer format [Flash required].
	A Public Health Analysis of the Proposed Resolution of the United States Tobacco Litigation - http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ustl/ Institute for Health Policy Studies of the University of California assembles a complete analysis of the proposed 1997 "resolution" that weighs and measures its impact on health.
	Public Citizen: Tobacco Policy Papers - http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/prod_liability/tobacco/ Discussion and analysis of tobacco policy options including litigation, legislation, regulation, and deals with the industry; focus is on the proposed deal of 1997.
	The Impact of the 1997 Tobacco Tax Increase on Cigarette Consumption in Alaska - http://health.hss.state.ak.us/dph/PDFs/tobacco_report_final.pdf Graphs consumption; measures price elasticity.
	National and State Tobacco Policy and Program Evaluation - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3323.htm Programs in New York, Florida, California, and nationally in the U.S.

	Ireland Sub-Committee on Health and Smoking - http://www.irlgov.ie/Committees-01/c-health/HealthandSmoking/ Committee in the Parliament of Ireland held in 2001 three days of hearings on the effects of smoking on Ireland; transcripts here.
	International Tobacco Control Poster Session - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3117.htm Health conference features policy analysis, program evaluation, and presentation of innovative programs.
	Impacts on Tobacco Use and Policy - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3965.htm Poster session from health conference: cigar smoking among college students, engaging youth in tobacco control activities, and developing health warning messages.

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