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The Anti-Tobacco category focuses on activities designed to influence personal behavior, public opinion, and legislation regarding tobacco products in the direction of decreased use. It includes sites related to activism, advertising, marketing, and public relations. It also includes sites offering critiques of these activities. Expect to find sites related to:

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• - Organization founded by student smokers and non-smokers dedicated to easing the problem of student tobacco use in Montgomery County, Maryland.
  
• - Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan.
  
• - Canada's Tobacco Activist Headquarters - Top stories from NO PATSY - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars, the battles, the lawsuits, the government actions.
  
• - Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada.
  
• - Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation.
  
• - News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials.
  
• - Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, and medical costs due to smoking.
  
• - Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research.
  
• - Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations.
  
• - Article in medical journal outlines how and why the government of Australia does little about tobacco, and government funding for tobacco control is small compared to government funding of other public health issues.
  
• - Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia.
  
• - Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less.
  
• - Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct.
  
• - Information from the American College of Cheest Physicians on tobacco advocacy.
  
• - Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money.
  
• - Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco.
  
• - In Chinese and English.
  
• - Send an ecard to encourage someone you know to take action against tobacco use.
  
• - English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan.
  
• - Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns.
  
• - Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC.
  
• - Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places.
  
• - Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria
  
• - Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest.
  
• - Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation.
  
• - The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI) has worked since 1990 to reduce the effects that the tobacco industry has had on the African American community and communities of color.
  
• - Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products.
  
• - From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus.
  
• - Ohio-based organization; advocates making 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco. Describes tobacco history; industry promotion; tobacco and health; addiction; costs of tobacco use; use by children; and public policy.
  
• - The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training.
  
• - Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action.
  
• - Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention.
  
• - Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco.
  
• - "To help a persistent cough, go to aisle 8. To get a persistent cough, go to aisle 14" Advocacy to urge pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products.
  
• - Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
  
• - Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry.
  
• - A Quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California until it was pulled by the governor.
  
• - World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco.
  
• - Campaign against Transnational Tobacco mobilizes students to use the investment power of their universities to challenge the global tobacco industry's violation of human rights, public health, and the environment; site requires Flash.
  
• - Provides a way for invdividuals and groups to express their support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
  
• - Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos.
  
• - Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers.
  
• - Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do.
  
• - Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada.
  
• - Research paper. Extensive and fully documented look at Arizona's Proposition 200. Concludes: "health advocates in Arizona successfully fought tobacco industry attempts to divert the health education funds and pass preemptive legislation. But the exe
  
• - Common cause study.
  
• - Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research.
  
• - World Health Organization initiative on tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) provides posters and factsheets on smoking in English and Arabic, Islamic rules and Christian views on smoking.
  
• - Network of student coalitions at colleges and universities throughout New York State educating and advocating against tobacco and for smokefree dorms, buildings, and events.
  
• - A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products.
  
• - Programs of the U.S. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to raise the visibility of tobacco prevention and control issues among state health officials and their senior staff.
  
• - Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco.
  
• - ASH publication.
  
• - Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada.
  
• - Charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. By Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach.
  
• - The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has developed strategy for dealing with the tobacco industry and its allies by using their stock to challenge issues through shareholder resolutions.
  
• - ANR and its members are involved in numerous clean indoor air campaigns around the nation. ANR action alerts give you an opportunity to take steps to protect your health and the health of your community.
  
• - Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulati
  
• - Canadian physician Terry Polevoy looks at the U.S. tobacco scene.
  
• - A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver.
  
• - Personal page of Robert Starkey.
  
• - Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world.
  
• - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars. Covers friends and opponents of the industry in Canada.
  
• - Focus is on tobacco product addiction.
  
• - Speech given by Dr. Koop in September 1998. Dr. Koop found the real scandal at the time was Big Tobacco's power in Congress. He gives his reasons for outrage at that scandal, in moving and vivid terms.
  
• - Student group at the University of Lethbridge, Canada.
  
• - A network of survivors, families, and friends of men and women who have overcome the damanges of tobacco products; informs the public and advocates for a smokefree society.
  
• - Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do.
  
• - A tobacco advocacy newsletter for central and eastern European countries, published by the Hungarian Health Center.
  
• - ASH-UK factsheet presents information about smoking prevalence, tobacco-related deaths, and tobacco control policies.
  
• - Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives.
  
• - ENSP is a European network for smoking prevention active in tobacco contol in Europe.
  
• - A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces.
  
• - Allows anyone concerned about the tobacco industry's practice of marketing to kids to send an instant fax to President Bush telling him not to weaken the US government's lawsuit against tobacco companies.
  
• - Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria.
  
• - Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco.
  
• - Asserts that Islam forbids smoking.
  
• - Short item on community-based organization against tobacco promotion.
  
• - Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Swit
  
• - A comprehensive guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate by Dr. Larry Breed, DrPH covers dozens of topics and outlines activism responses to tobacco, with an emphasis on knowledge before action.
  
• - Covers the Brown and Williamson papers, how they got to Glantz, what we've learned from them about the tobacco industry, how the industry tried to intimidate Glantz and UCSF to suppress them and why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not.
  
• - Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobac
  
• - A slide show countering some of the common myths related to tobacco and developing countries.
  
• - Explores the different approaches that shareholders can take in formulating a response to tobacco, such as divestment, modification of investments and shareholder resolutions. A sampling of institutions, including pension funds, universities, insurance co
  
• - Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action.
  
• - Report from the WHO Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents tobacco industry front groups, lobbying, PR campaigns, spying on tobacco control organizations, and delaying or blocking anti-tobacco measures in the region.
  
• - Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care.
  
• - Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion.
  
• - Award-winning site examines non-health related tobacco industry fraud and false claims issues, presenting authentic tobacco company documents to illustrate tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and claims. Features grassroots programs and inter
  
• - The San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project fights the pervasive infuence of the tobacco industry in our community. "We used to pick it -- now they want us to smoke it!"
  
• - National grassroots organization founded in 1977, best known for its successful Nestle and GE boycott campaigns. Features information on the tobacco industry, explodes the myths pushed by tobacco industry PR (e.g. "smoking is an adult custom"),
  
• - Individual advocate in Kentucky.
  
• - Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India.
  
• - Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider'
  
• - Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking".
  
• - Supports research, education, communication, training and advocacy for tobacco control and a smoke-free society.
  
• - How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy.
  
• - An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper.
  
• - Advocates for smokefree workplaces in Oregon.
  
• - Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates.
  
• - "Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary cit
  
• - Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally.
  
• - A report from CorpWatch.
  
• - Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
  
• - Victim of smoking-related cancer. Led crusade across Canada to stop children from starting to smoke. Includes story, short commercials she recorded, transcripts of those commercials, and donation information.
  
• - Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
  
• - Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event.
  
• - Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco.
  
• - EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages.
  
• - Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canda with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and
  
  

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