- ASH - Action on Smoking and Health - http://www.ash.org.uk/
Pressure group and registered UK charity, lobbying for a comprehensive national programme to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases. Excellent collection of links and resources.
- Smoking: Don't give up giving up - http://www.givingupsmoking.co.uk/
Official site produced by the NHS Health Education Authority. Useful advice on how to give up and you can ask for regular supportive e-mails.
- Tobacco Control Resource Centre - http://www.tobacco-control.org/
Promotes tobacco control by working mainly with national medical associations in Europe. Encourages doctors to stop smoking and provides information to enable doctors to help their patients quit.
- Smoke Free Birmingham - http://www.smokefree.org.uk/
A guide to smoke free places in Birmingham, as well as information on how to quit.
- QUIT - http://www.quit.org.uk/
Practical advice on giving up. Telephone helpline available.
- Government Response - http://www.doh.gov.uk/smokinggovresponse.htm
Government Response to the Health Select Committee's Second Report on the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking, published in October 2000
- Smoke-Free Oxfordshire - http://www.smokefreeoxfordshire.org.uk/
Group aims to reduce the risk of smoking to the health and welfare of the people in Oxfordshire. Information on smoking, tobacco, quitting, smokefree dining.
- Passive Smoking Kills 1000 people a year - http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/health/story.jsp?story=349669
At least 1,000 people a year are dying from the effects of passive smoking yet the public enjoys less protection from other people's tobacco smoke than from the chimes of ice-cream vans, the British Medical Association says.
- 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.
- No Smoking Day - http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/
No Smoking Day comes once a year. The web site is available all year round to provide support for quitters and for professionals.
- ASH Scotland - http://www.ashscotland.org.uk/
Tobacco and smoking fact sheets, statistics, news, projects, policies, and resources.
- SmokeFree London - http://www.smokefreelondon.com/
An alliance of agencies working together to improve the health of all Londoners by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco.
- Smoke Free Norfolk - http://www.smokefreenorfolk.org
An alliance of organisations working together to encourage a reduction in the prevalence of smoking through education and advice. Also includes the Totally Smoke Free Norfolk Eating Guide.
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