- Health Canada: Tobacco
Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco
Pulls together information on tobacco, nicotine and addictdion, secondhand smoke, media advocacy, youth, tobacco additives, and women and tobacco.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - INFACT
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"), and invites action on a new boycott of the tobacco industry.
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The International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT) was founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Join Together Online: Substance Abuse
Join Together is a national resource center for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. "Tobacco is the most common substance abuse problem, and the most lethal. Tobacco causes 400,000 deaths each year, killing more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, suicides, and fires combined."
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Making it UNCOOL
Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - NJ Breathes
Information and advocacy for tobacco education, smokefree air, and coverage of cessation, in New Jersey.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco
Founded in 1992 to support the Ontario Tobacco Control Act to reduce tobacco sales to minors, eliminate tobacco sales from drug stores and vending machines, and make more public places smoke-free. Since then, has worked for smoke-free workplace and public place by-laws, has done research on the costs of smoking and the impacts of second-hand smoke, and assisted health agencies in developing and implementing tobacco control policies.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - QuickTime: PSA
A quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California, until it was pulled by governor Pete Wilson. Wilson is "still a good friend" of the tobacco industry, according to an exposed industry document.
(Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - RI Tobacco Control Network
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.
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SCARCNet Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center Network, a project of the Advocacy Institute
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