- GASP of Colorado Education Center
Tobacco information resources ranging from the costs to society to the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke.
http://www.gaspforair.org/gedc/
- GLOBALink: Secret Documents from the Minnesota Depository
Papers reviewing industry internal documents: Tobacco industry campaign against advertising bans in the 1980's; Industry recruitment of scientific experts; industry attitudes revealed by editing; and files relevant to women.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/secretdocs/minnesota.shtml
- Health & Prevention Videos
Videos for instructional use or presentations; includes "Selling Addiction" and "Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered".
http://gpn.unl.edu/cml/cml_search.asp?catalog_name=GPN&gradelevel=&topic=&subject=&keyword=smoking
- Health 20/20: Tobacco Essays
Essays on tobacco, tobacco control, tobacco promotion, and patterns of use.
http://www.health20-20.org/Tobacco.htm
- Health Canada: Tobacco Reduction
Mission is to help Canadians to become and remain smoke-free through the provision of appropriate information pertaining to tobacco prevention, protection and cessation.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/tobaccoreduction/
- Hispanics and Tobacco
Report finds tobacco products are heavily advertised and promoted to Hispanic communities. Examples include "Rio" and "Dorado" cigarettes, billboard and storefront advertising in Hispanic neighborhoods, and support of Hispanic organizations.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_1998/sgr-min-fs-hsp.htm
- House of Commons - Smoking and Health - Second Report
UK scientific report on smoking in Britain, awareness of the health effects of active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, and the tobacco industry in Britain.
http://www.parliament.the-stationery-office.co.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmhealth/27/2702.htm
- How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works
Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/nicotine.htm
- indiacancer.org
Tobacco, smoking and cancer; children and tobacco use; involuntary (secondhand) smoking; women and smoking; quitting; references.
http://www.indiacancer.org/cali/tobafrm.html
- It's Your Life
Health promotion pamphlet created by Monash University medical students uses humor with a spoof TV game show approach to smoking.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/healthpromotion/pamphlets/smoking/
- JAMA Tobacco Issue
Special issue on tobacco of The Journal of the American Medical Association, August 9, 2000, Volume 284, No. 6.
http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n6/toc.html
- Leave The Pack Behind
A campus smoking program which provides information for smokers and non-smokers.
http://www.leavethepackbehind.org
- LifeScape: Article - LifeRecovery - Nicotine
Capsule, consumer-health-oriented reviews of the issues: nicotine, addiction, health effects, recovery, secondhand smoke.
http://www.lifescape.com/articles/default.asp?channel=LifeRecovery&category=Nicotine
- Making Smoking History
Article features public health worker who challenges the conventional view of smoking as an individual problem, and makes the case for tobacco as a societal health problem.
http://www.emory.edu/WHSC/HSNEWS/PUB/PH/Spring02/smoking.html
- MEDLINE: Tobacco Uue - Smoking and Spit Tobacco
Topic in MEDLINE's medical encyclopedia covers effects, chemical componenents, diseases caused, quitting tobacco, with 4 poster-quality illustrations.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002032.htm
- MEDLINEplus: Smoking
Medical emphasis; factsheets, clinical trials, prevention/screening, news, organizations, statistics, particular populations.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smoking.html
- Men and smoking
Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction.
http://www.menstuff.org/issues/byissue/smoking.html
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