- 16. Women and smoking
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm
- ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke?
Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0803/advice.html
- Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction
"Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation."
http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/summaries/frames/smoking-nf.html
- Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf
- Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.
http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
- Cigarette Ads Targetting Women
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=women&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=55&submit.y=17
- Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm
- Cigarettes Cause More Damage to Women
Recent research finds that cigarettes cause more disease in women.
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=infobike://ers/erj/2003/00000021/00000006&index=19&WebLogicSession=PtuQ4NQDFLsPuq8Q4sSB|6488290806610947403/-1052814329/6/7051/7051/7052/7052/7051/-1
- Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females
The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.
http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm
- Higher death risk for women smokers
Women are twice as likely to develop an untreatable form of lung cancer than men, according to the UK's biggest lung cancer study.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_225000/225928.stm
- Independence From Smoking
National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking.
http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm
- ivillage: Smoking and Women
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html
- Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html
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