- Tobacco BBS - http://www.tobacco.org/
Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
- thetruth.com - http://www.thetruth.com/
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. "The truth about how the cigarette industry operates".
- Cancer Facts and Figures - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
- Quit Victoria - http://www.quit.org.au/
"Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
- Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes - http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/tobacco_general_index.html
American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
- World No Tobacco Day - http://www.wntd.com/
Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
- TobaccoFree - http://www.tobaccofree.org/
Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
- WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting - http://whyquit.com/
A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
- Nicotine and Addiction - http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html
ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
- Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets - http://www.health.state.mo.us/SmokingAndTobacco/FSST.html
From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
- The Tobacco Reference Guide - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/
Complete online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets on: scope of the problem and overall death and disability; demographics; mortality and longevity data; history; secondhand smoke; asthma and allergy; lung cancer; other cancers; heart disease; COPD; other healthproblems; impotence; pregnancy; children and teen smoking; spit tobacco; pipes and cigars; tobacco ingredients and additives; nicotine and addiction; low tar and nicotine cigarettes; quitting; women and smoking; and advertising.
- Smoking Is Ugly - http://www.smokingisugly.com
Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.
- Tobacco: The Moral Issues - http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/califtobac.htm
Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer - http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking
University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
- Nicotine Addiction in Britain - http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/2-physical.htm
Extensive report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. "Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices".
- Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues - http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome.htm
A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and the tobacco industry.
- TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly - http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm
Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
- Tobacco Web - http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369
From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
- Nicotine Junkies - http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/
Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
- WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) - http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
- Tobacco Control Online - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/
A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
- Low Tar Exposed - http://www.lowtarexposed.org/
Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
- WHO: The Tobacco Atlas - http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/
History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures.
- Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections - http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/
Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
- CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.
- Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry - http://scienceweek.com/swfr047.htm
Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
- "Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely - http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993990
New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
- ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen - http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html
Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
- Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction - http://www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTobacco.html
Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.
- Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/281?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=Reducing+the+addictiveness+of+cigarettes&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=&fdate=12/1/1997&tdate=2/28/1999
Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
- Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum - http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/Nicotine.html
Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition, and treatment of nicotine dependence.
- eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction - http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1642.htm
Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
- Nicotine Addiction in Britain - http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/
Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
- Research Report: Nicotine Addiction - http://www.drugabuse.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html
Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
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