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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:
  • Activist organizations,
  • Specific campaigns,
  • "How-to" guides and information, and
  • Critiques of the actions taken by others.
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ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health - Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos. Licensed to Kill, Inc. - Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money. International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) - Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls. Tobacco Free Initiative - World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco. The Syrian Center For Tobacco Studies - Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria Taking on Tobacco Imperialism - Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids - 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 tobacco companies use to entice youth as their new customers. ASAP911Tobacco - Individual advocate in Kentucky. Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide - 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. Virginia GASP home page - Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct. San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project - 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!" Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 - Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco - 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. Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz - 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. Tobacco To 21 - 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. Nicotine Victims - Focus is on tobacco product addiction. Join the Joe Chemo Campaign! - Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event. Wallgreens.Com - A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products. Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. - Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider' Smokinghurts.com - Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research. Public Citizen: Tobacco - Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation. Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health - 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. PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign - Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest. Action In The War Against Big Tobacco - Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do. Tobacco Free U - Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation. Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses - An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper. Motherjones.com - See For Yourself: The Spiked PSA - A Quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California until it was pulled by the governor. Smokefree.net - A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces. Taking Down the Marlboro Man - Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC. ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control - 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. Tough on Drugs -- Weak on Tobacco - 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. StatesOnTheTake.com - Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry. Give Tobacco The Boot! - Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos. Action on Smoking and Health - Canada - Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention. European Network for Smoking Prevention - Active in tobacco control in Europe. Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland - 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 Switzerland. AntiSmokingAds.org - Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research. Grand Unification Press - Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking". Smokefree Advocacy - 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. Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization - A report from CorpWatch. Gayatri Pariwar - Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco. Smoking and Islam - Asserts that Islam forbids smoking. Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry - 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 manipulation of music to promote smoking. Tarbox, Barb - 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. Smoking Facts - A collection of smoking facts, statistics, and quotes. The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage? - 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. Tobacco Control - 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 executive branch limited the scope of the program to adolescents and pregnant women, and prevented it from attacking the tobacco industry or focusing on secondhand smoke." British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies - 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.
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