- Women and Tobacco
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49
- Women First - Smoking Cessation
"For women approaching midlife, smoking cessation is the single most important change you can make to enhance your life expectancy." Collection of articles on smoking and quitting for women.
http://www.womenfirst.com/healthLibrary.asp?article=40&x=12&y=12
- Women Suffer Huge Rise in Lung Disease
Chronic lung disease in women almost doubled in the 1990s as smoking began to show its effects.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/08/22/timnwsnws01008.html
- Women's Cigarette Market
1973 R. J. Reynolds memo discusses it marketing strategies targeting women.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini/html/v/147/otherpages/allpages.html
- Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women
NOW pamphlet. "Within six years of the tobacco industry's introduction of cigarette brands and ad campaigns targetting women, the number of girls smoking increased 110%." Factsheet and research references.
http://www.now.org/foundation/health/whp/fact4.html
- Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking.
http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html
- You've Come a Long Way...or Have You?
From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/wms_0399.html
- Young Women and Smoking
"Each day in the United Stated about 1,500 girls being smoking. Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school graduation...Data show an abrupt increase in smoking initiation in girls under age 18 around 1967, when tobacco advertising introduced specific brands of cigarettes for women."
http://www.inwat.org/young.htm
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