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A Smokefree World
Personal page of Robert Starkey.
http://www.geocities.com/smokefree1/
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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.
http://www.cleanlungs.com/action/index.html
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Action on Smoking and Health - Canada
Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention.
http://www.ash.ca/
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Advocacy Info: Tobacco
Information from the American College of Cheest Physicians on tobacco advocacy.
http://www.chestnet.org/practice/gr/tobacco/index.php
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Advocating for the Public's Health
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.
http://www.commed.uchc.edu/healthservices/mediaadvoc/default.htm
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Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change
Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates.
http://www.thepraxisproject.org/tools/advocacy_how_to_tobacco.pdf
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Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education
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.
http://www.lungcanceralliance.org/involved/tobacco_background.html
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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.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/
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Altria Means Tobacco
Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria.
http://www.altriameanstobacco.com/
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American Lung Association Action Network
How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy.
http://lungaction.org/
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Anti-Smoke Japan
English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan.
http://www.anti-smoke-jp.com/keneneg.html
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ASAP911Tobacco
Individual advocate in Kentucky.
http://asap911tobacco.com
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ASH Australia
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.
http://www.ashaust.org.au/
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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.
http://www.astho.org/?template=state_tobacco.html
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Big Tobacco Sucks
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.
http://www.bigtobaccosucks.org/
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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.
http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/lbguide.html
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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.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/
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Cigarette Litter
Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns.
http://www.cigarettelitter.org/
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Connecticut Stop Tobacco-Save Kids
Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less.
http://www.ctstoptobacco-savekids.com/
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Consumer Voice: Tobacco
Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India.
http://www.consumer-voice.org/tobacco/tobacco1.htm
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Don't Pardon Big Tobacco
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.
http://tfk.grassroots.com/doj/
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Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization
A report from CorpWatch.
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?id=3972
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European Network for Smoking Prevention
Active in tobacco control in Europe.
http://www.ensp.org/
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FCTC Now!
Provides a way for invdividuals and groups to express their support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control.
http://www.fctcnow.org/
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Feel Free to Say No
EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages.
http://www.feel-free.info/
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Fight With Fact
Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco.
http://www.fightwithfact.com/
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Filter Online
A tobacco advocacy newsletter for central and eastern European countries, published by the Hungarian Health Center.
http://www.tobinfo.org/
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Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization
Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco.
http://nosmoking.ws/
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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.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/glantz.html
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Gayatri Pariwar
Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco.
http://www.vatikashaktipeeth.com/tobacco/
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Get Outraged
"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 citizens get involved in the fight against Big Tobacco."
http://www.getoutraged.com/
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GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network
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.
http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/
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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.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_8734.htm
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Grand Unification Press
Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking".
http://www.grandupress.com
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Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses
An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper.
http://www.grimreaper.org/
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Health Promotion: Global Perspectives
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.
http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/global/2000-09/index.htm
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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.
http://www.inwat.org/
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International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco
News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials.
http://www.ingcat.org/
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Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D.
Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider'
http://www.jeffreywigand.com/
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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.
http://www.joechemo.org/campaign.htm
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Kids Before Profits
Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco.
http://tfk.grassroots.com/tfk_candidateEd/CandidateEd_Home_NEW/
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Licensed to Kill, Inc.
Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money.
http://www.licensedtokill.biz/
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Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board
Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco.
http://www.lcltfb.org/tobacco/default.html
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Making it UNCOOL
Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9903.worth.cigs.html
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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.
http://www.mascotcoalition.org/
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Michigan Smoke-Free Dining Act Petition Drive
Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan.
http://www.smokefreediningpetition.com
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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.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/qt2.html
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NAAAPI: Tobacco Control Advocacy
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.
http://www.naaapi.org/tobacco/default.asp
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National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH)
Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada.
http://www.ncth.ca
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New York State College Alliance Against Tobacco
Network of student coalitions at colleges and universities throughout New York State educating and advocating against tobacco and for smokefree dorms, buildings, and events.
http://www.nyscaat.org/
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Nicotine Victims
Focus is on tobacco product addiction.
http://www.nicotinevictims.com
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NYPIRG: Tobacco
Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do.
http://www.nypirg.org/health/tobacco/
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Philip Morris Can't Hide
Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action.
http://tfk.grassroots.com/pmch/
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Philip Morris Info Sheet
From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SICD/PhilipMorris/pmorris.html
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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada
Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/
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PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign
Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest.
http://www.pirg.org/consumer/tobacco/index.htm
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Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH)
Provides grants, technical assistance, research, and training for tobacco policy advocacy to community groups serving communities of color.
http://www.thepraxisproject.org/path/
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Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation
ASH publication.
http://ash.org/papers/h201.htm
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Public Citizen: Tobacco
Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation.
http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/Tobacco/index.cfm
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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.
http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/
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Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page
Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco.
http://sklaroff.globalink.org/homepage-tobacco.html
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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!"
http://www.polarisinc.com/tobacco/
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SIF Research: Tobacco's Changing Context
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 companies and foundations, along with their responses, is included.
http://www.socialinvest.org/areas/research/tobacco/
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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.
http://www.no-smoke.org/goingsmokefree.php
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Smokefree.net
A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces.
http://www.smokefree.net/
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Smoking and Islam
Asserts that Islam forbids smoking.
http://www.islamawareness.net/Smoking/
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Smokinghurts.com
Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research.
http://www.smokinghurts.com/
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StatesOnTheTake.com
Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry.
http://www.statesonthetake.com/
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Students Oppose Smoking
Organization founded by student smokers and non-smokers dedicated to easing the problem of student tobacco use in Montgomery County, Maryland.
http://www.sosnow.org/
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Taking Down the Marlboro Man
Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC.
http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/23/taking_down_the_malboro_man/
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Taking on Tobacco Imperialism
Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html
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The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues
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 interactive content. Offers a related book for publication.
http://www.rxshuster.org/
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Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition
Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada.
http://www.timiskaminghu.com/content.asp?navID=49&parentID=49&lang=en
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Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000
Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
http://medicolegal.tripod.com/alltcases.htm
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Tobacco Control Supersite
Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia.
http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/
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Tobacco Free Initiative
World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
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Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan
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.
http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/EMROleads-Pakistan.htm
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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.
http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/
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Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East
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.
http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/VOICE%20OF%20TRUTH.pdf
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Tobacco Survivors United
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.
http://www.tobaccosurvivorsunited.org/
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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.
http://www.tobacco21.org/
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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.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_12_190600/chapman/chapman.html
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Virginia GASP home page
Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct.
http://www.gasp.org/#factsheets
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