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Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care  - http://www.aahp.org/atmc/mainindex.cfm  Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.  Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care-- Bibliography Fall 1998  - http://www.aahp.org/atmc/Fall98bibliography.htm  Annotated technical bibliography on tobacco cessation, policy, clinical practice guidelines, smoking costs and cessation cost effectiveness, secondhand smoke, physician intervention, pregnancy, spit tobacco, and youth.  Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care  - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/content/vol9/suppl_1/  Set of research articles on how and why tobacco use is a priority in managed care, and what can be done about it.  FindLaw Legal News: Tobacco  - http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/tobacco/  Updates on tobacco law from international to local, tobacco ligitation updates, and tobacco industry documents that feature in tobacco law.  Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments  - http://www.umich.edu/~urel/Tobacco/tobreptc.html  University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.  The Economic Case Against Tobacco Stocks  - http://www.elkin.com/economic_case_against_tobacco.htm  While some investors avoid tobacco stocks for moral reasons, this article discusses economic reasons for avoiding investing in tobacco stocks.  Cigarette Law  - http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no3/givelber.html  Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions.  Tobacco Law Compendium  - http://www.tobaccolaw.org/  Searchable by case, legislation, bylaw, or legal literature, as well as document text. In English and French.  Tobacco Legal and Policy Issues  - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/policy.htm  Papers on state laws on tobacco control, preemptive state tobacco laws, attitudes towards smoking in different states, effectiveness of tobacco control programs, and MMWR reports.  Selling Off or Selling Out? Medical Schools and Ethical Leadership in Tobacco Stock Divestment  - http://www.academicmedicine.org/cgi/content/full/79/11/1017  Tobacco industry documents show that Philip Morris used its funding of medical schools to get them to keep their investment in tobacco stocks.  AMWA Position Paper: Tobacco Control and Prevention  - http://www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectid=244E9AF4-D567-0B25-5DA167C3D452F725  The American Medical Womens Association outlines its stand and proposed policy initiatives.  The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption  - http://www.nber.org/papers/W6958  Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bans have little or no effect.  Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer  - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/NWS_1_1x_California_Lung_Cancer_Rates_Drop_Significantly_.asp  California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.  Corpwatch - Tobacco, Free Trade and Globalization  - http://corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type&type=109  Articles addressing how restricting tobacco is getting harder to do as the world drops trade restrictions and economies become intertwined.