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» A Smokefree World - Personal page of Robert Starkey.
» AIRSPACE Action on Smoking and Health - British Columbia, Canada-based group of "Sworn Enemies of the Tobacco Industry" advocates for smokefree air, protection for children, and smokefree workplaces.
» ASAP911Tobacco - Individual advocate in Kentucky.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) - Nation's oldest and largest antismoking organization takes legal action and provides information about the problems and costs of smoking.
» Adbusters: Philip Morris Uncommercial - Features Quicktime movie of an upcoming uncommercial by Adbusters, questioning Philip Morris's right to exist.
» Advocacy Info: Tobacco - Information from the American College of Cheest Physicians on tobacco advocacy.
» Advocacy Institute: Tobacco Control Project - Supports research, education, communication, training and advocacy for tobacco control and a smoke-free society.
» Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change - Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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.
» Altria Means Tobacco - Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria.
» American Lung Association Action Network - How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy.
» Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights - Works to pass legislation at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and protect youth from tobacco addiction.
» Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program - Produces a variety of public outreach material on tobacco and smoking, including radio ads, TV commercials, posters, billboards, theater hall slides and merchandizing items. Performs policy analysis, provides training and technical assistance, and help i
» 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.
» BoycottTobacco.com - Organizes a boycott of the many non-cigarette products made by tobacco giants such as Altria and R. J. Reynolds.
» 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.
» 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.
» 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 tobac
» Center for Tobacco Free New York - Lets you send e-postcards to tell your elected officials how to spend tobacco settlement money and stop smoking in New York State.
» Cigarette Litter - Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns.
» Coalition for Clean Air and Clean Lungs - "The world's first organization to address quality of air issues for residents in group housing." What you can do to protect yourself from secondhand smoke in apartments, at home, in the workplace, in public places. Also tobacco industry infor
» Coalition for a Healthy Future, California - A campaign to raise the tobacco tax by $1.50 and earmark 20 cents for tobacco prevention and cessation programs in California
» Coalition for a Tobacco Free Pennsylvania - Provides news and information for advocates, policy analysis, a discussion forum, and searchable databases of smoking cessation programs and smoke-free restaurants in Pennsylvania.
» Coalition for a Tobacco Free Vermont - The Coalition "believes that Vermonters care about clean air and the health of our fellow neighbors, friends, and family. Our goal is to empower Vermonters with information and tools to influence our state government to work toward a Tobacco Free Ver
» Connecticut Stop Tobacco-Save Kids - Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less.
» Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively - Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world.
» Developing Coalitions for Tobacco-Free Youth - Why tobacco is a community issue; forming a coalition; developing the coalition's membership and expertise; planning for action; communicating with the community.
» 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.
» Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco - 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
» Fight With Fact - Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco.
» Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization - Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco.
» 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.
» GASP of Colorado - Smokefree dining database, advocacy, and lots of educational articles.
» 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.
» 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 cit
» Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses - An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper.
» Health Canada: Tobacco - Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations.
» 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"),
» Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco - Pulls together information on tobacco, nicotine and addictdion, secondhand smoke, media advocacy, youth, tobacco additives, and women and tobacco.
» 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.
» International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco - News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials.
» Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. - Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider'
» 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.
» Kids Before Profits - Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco.
» Licensed to Kill, Inc. - Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money.
» Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board - Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco.
» 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.
» MASSPIRG: Tough On Tobacco - Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives.
» Making it UNCOOL - Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products.
» Michigan Smoke-Free Dining Act Petition Drive - Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan.
» Mobilizing the Gay and Lesbian Community Against Tobacco - Short item on community-based organization against tobacco promotion.
» 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.
» 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.
» NJ Breathes - Information and advocacy for tobacco education, smokefree air, and coverage of cessation, in New Jersey.
» NO PATSY Homepage - National Organization of People Attacking Tobacco Sales to Youth - Canada's Tobacco Activist Headquarters - Top stories from NO PATSY - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars, the battles, the lawsuits, the government actions.
» NYPIRG: Tobacco - Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do.
» National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) - Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada.
» New York City Coalition for a Smoke Free City - The Coalition for a Smoke-Free City is an anti tobacco advocacy group committed to making New York a smoke-free city
» 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.
» Nicotine Victims - Focus is on tobacco product addiction.
» Non Smokers' Movement of Australia - Fighting the tobacco industry, tobacco advertising, smoking in public places and "all out-of-touch politicians who support this bogus industry". Newsletter with timely updates; publications and factsheets on tobacco history, industry strategies
» Non-Smokers' Rights Association / Smoking and Health Action Foundation (Canada) - NSRA and SHAF have been at the forefront of tobacco control efforts in Canada and around the world for the past quarter-century.
» 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
» Ontario Tobacco-Free Network - Volunteer-directed, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco use. Updates on Canada and the U.S. Extensive resources area. In English and French.
» PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign - Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest.
» Partnerships Between Attorneys and Public Health Professionals to Support Local Tobacco Control Efforts - Historically, the greatest deterrents to local tobacco control efforts have been 1) lack of policy guidance; and 2) tobacco industry legal intimidation. This paper outlines an approach that deals with both problems.
» Philip Morris Can't Hide - Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action.
» Philip Morris Info Sheet - From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus.
» Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada - Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada.
» Prescription for Change - "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.
» Pro-Youth Pages: Boycott Philip Morris - Discusses how tobacco products are marketed to youth, and calls for a boycott of Philip Morris.
» Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation - ASH publication.
» Protect Local Control - Working to allow localities - not states or nations - to write their own ordinances about smoking in public places.
» ProtectMontanaKids.org - Montana statewide initiative to help prevent the death and disease that comes from tobacco use.
» Public Citizen: Tobacco - Amicus briefs, litgation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation.
» 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.
» Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page - Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco.
» 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 co
» 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!"
» 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 manipulati
» Smoke Free Maryland Home Page - Avocacates for a smokefree society. Features information on the economic costs of tobacco use.
» Smoke Free Maryland Voting Records Site - "Did your lawmakers vote for Big Tobacco or You?" Smoke Free Maryland's Voting Records Page examines each candidate's record on the issues.
» 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.
» Smokinghurts.com - Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research.
» Students Oppose Smoking - Organization founded by student smokers and non-smokers dedicated to easing the problem of student tobacco use in Montgomery County, Maryland.
» Taking Down the Marlboro Man - Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC.
» 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.
» The Conscientious Consuming Boycott Against Tobacco Companies - Calls for the boycott of all the products (both tobacco and non-tobacco) of tobacco companies.
» The End of Tobacco Sales and Investments at the University of Washington - Chronicles a succesful campaign to end sales of tobacco on campus and investments in the tobacco industry at the university. Includes presentations given to the University, slides, talks, and related news items.
» The Globalization of Tobacco - Report from CorpWatch. Essays and speeches on the global marketing and politics of tobacco.
» 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 inter
» 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.
» The Tobacco Wars American Style - Canadian physician Terry Polevoy looks at the U.S. tobacco scene.
» Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition - Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada.
» Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 - Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
» 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 exe
» Tobacco Control Supersite - Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia.
» Tobacco Free Hall County - Group located in Grand Island, Nebraska, is dedicated to promoting lives free of smoke. Features award winning materials on secondhand smoke.
» 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.
» Tobacco Money in Politics: Over $25 million - Common cause study.
» Tobacco Post - Canada's best anti-tobacco site - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars. Covers friends and opponents of the industry in Canada.
» 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.
» 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.
» Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles - Charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. By Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach.
» TobaccoFreeMass.org - Tobacco Free Mass advocates for funding and policies that reduce tobacco use, the leading cause of preventable death and diseas in the Commonwealth, and reducing the public's exposure to secondhand smoke.
» Toxic-Tobacco Law - Describes the proposed Toxic-Tobacco Law, how it differs from Prohibition, what it will accomplish, and how supporters can help get the Law passed.
» Virginia GASP home page - Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct.
» Virginia SLAM! - Leslie Nuchow got a lucrative offer from Philip Morris to be part of their "Woman Thing" promotion; she said no, and instead founded Virginia SLAM! an organization opposing tobacco industry use of music to promote smoking.
» Wallgreens.Com - A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products.
» Washington BREATHE - Smokefree advocacy in Washington State. Site requires Flash.
» WorkSmokefree.com - Advocates for smokefree workplaces in Oregon.
» World No Tobacco Day Ecards - Send an ecard to encourage someone you know to take action against tobacco use.
» buttout.net - Urges boycott of R. J. Reynolds products as long as company advertises in magazines with a substantial readership in the under 21 year old age greoup.
» http://www.smokefree.net/ - A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces.