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» Association of State and Territorial Health Officials - "Strengthening national, state, and local tobacco prevention and control activities to reduce the nation's #1 preventable cause of death".
» CDC Health Topic: Smoking/Tobacco Control - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention information.
» Indiana Prevention Resource Center Tobacco Resources - Fact sheets and lots of links.
» Information on Drugs of Abuse: Nicotine - Resources on nicotine addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
» Minnesota Institute of Public Health: Tobacco Related Issues - Factsheets on economic costs of tobacco, tobacco and the workplace, and tobacco and pregnancy and parenthood.
» Secondhand Diplomacy - After closed-door meetings with cigarette makers, the Bush administration is seeking to derail a global tobacco treaty.
» Smoke Free Birmingham - Posters, screen savers, videos, printed information, and factsheets on smoking, quitting, and going smokefree.
» Smoke Free Maryland - Smoking Costs - Succinct, bottom-line, answers: what's it costing us?
» Smoking Health Issues "Still Ignored" - The deaths of five million people in the UK from smoking-related diseases have been partly blamed on decades of government inaction.
» Smoking Kills - A White Paper on Tobacco - UK Department of Health report.
» States Hooked on Tobacco Money - State governments work to protect Big Tobacco: Wall Street Journal article.
» The Decade-Long Scandal that Makes Enron Look Like Small Potatoes - Columnist Herb Denenbert comments on how little the government does about tobacco's toll.
» The Maryland Tobacco Page - Health effects of Smoking; smoking costs; fact sheets.
» Tobacco Free Billboards - An article about anti-tobacco billboards replacing cigarette industry advertisements. Department of Public Health launches a new anti-smoking media initiative.
» 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.
» U.S. Government Actions to Promote Tobacco - 12 page document lists actions by the U.S. government to promote cigarettes and spit tobacco around the world.
» White House Sought to Soften Anti-Terrorism Legislation in Support of Tobacco Companies - The Bush administration sought to use anti-terrorism legislation, rushed through Congress in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, to shield U.S. tobacco companies from foreign lawsuits alleging cigarette smuggling and money laundering.
» White House Sought to Soften Anti-Terrorism Legislation in Support of Tobacco Companies - As Congress rushed to pass a bill aimed at cracking down on terrorists, the White House pushed a measure that would protect the tobacco industry.