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EurekAlert
Theoretically, "one-stop shopping" for the latest research findings in science, medicine and technology. Plus, resources for scientists, science writers and members of the public. Strangely, astonishingly, nothing about the recent p53 discovery. From American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
http://www.eurekalert.org/E-lert/current/mainpage.shtml

Narco-Politics: The Tobacco Wars
In the "Propaganda--Narco-politics" section of the charming Disinformation WebSite. They're attempting to amass and collate quality Internet sources of news & information in a wide range of hot-news areas. Well worth exploring.
http://www.disinfo.com/prop/narco/prop_narco_thetobaccowars.html

"> Libraries, Libraries, Libraries!
This site is a researcher's goldmine of online library catalogs. In addition, search 17,000 publications with Uncover (search is free, retrieval costs). Plus, you can subscribe to Uncover's REVEAL service, which for $25 a year, sends you a monthly list of new articles that contain your keywords. (LB)
http://www.oberon-res.com/librarys.htm

Z39.50 Gateway to the Library of Congress
Telnet without tears. Despite the techy name, the Library of Congress' new HTML interface offers ease and powerful searching. For example, you can search on : AUTHOR: Nall AND SUBJECT: Tobacco and get:
Author: Nall, James O.
Title: The tobacco night riders of Kentucky and Tennessee, 1905-1909 / by James O. Nall.
Published: Kuttawa, Ky. : McClanahan Pub. House, 1991.
LC Call No.: HD8039.T62 U66 1991
Plus more info on the book.
You can also use the gateway to search over 200 other major libraries, from Bell labs to Yale.
http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/gateway.html

CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook is a comprehensive view of each country in the world through facts and maps.
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

New York Times Book Review

You can search on tobacco or smoking and find, for example, the original 1988 reviews of Larry C. White's Merchants of Death from Christopher Lehman-Haupt Yet, as Mr. White aptly concludes, the cigarette companies continue to spread throughout the American economy like "a cancer that has metastasized." We may have come a long way from the time when we romanticized Bogart and Bacall for wrapping each other up in wreaths of smoke. But apparently we haven't come quite far enough yet, baby
or from Kit Konolige In his short, blunt book . . . White makes us feel fresh outrage over the vicious cynicism of the executives of the cigarette industry who profit handsomely while promoting a bogus debate over the deadliness of tobacco.
http://www.nytimes.com/books/

American Cancer Society updates of tobacco news
ACS's short digest of weekly news.
http://www.cancer.org/tobacco/issues.html

PUBLIC CITIZEN's Tobacco-Related Documents
Fact Sheets, Alerts, Documents, Testimony, more. Very rich, from Ralph Nader's group.
http://www.citizen.org/tobacco/

Public Citizen's Tobacco Settlement Page
PC's exceptional articles and analyses.
http://www.citizen.org/congress/civjus/tobacco/tobacco_settlemen...

Recovery Network News
Summaries of news events on addictive substances.
http://www.recoverynetwork.com/news/

The Tobacco Wars American Style
Canadian Physician Terry Polevoy has an attractive roundup of our tobacco news resource sites.
http://www.healthwatch.org/News-UStobacco/ustobnews.html

BioMednet
has some spectacular new research tools
http://biomednet.com/

IRRC: The Tobacco Industry (Seventh Edition)
is the seventh in a series of tobacco directories published by the Investor Responsibility Research Center since 1990. This directory aims to be the most comprehensive and authoritative compilation of public companies involved in the tobacco industry worldwide.
http://www.irrc.org/profile/tis/directry/index.htm

Latest, Complete Coverage of Tobacco Crisis
ABC
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/tobacco_index.html

MEDLINE Online
Two orgs, PubMed and Grateful Med, now provide this service FREE! 8.8 million references to articles published in 3800 biomedical journals! Best interface yet. Nicely done.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/freemedl.html

Journal Graphics' Smoking Transcripts
ABC, CNN and NPR programs.
http://www.tv-radio.com/topics/smoking0.htm

Advocacy Institute
[gopher news service only]
gopher://gopher.igc.apc.org:7003/11/news/tob

Tobacco Control
An International Journal

Tobacco Control is a quarterly scientific journal launched in 1992 to consider all aspects of tobacco prevention and control. The journal aims to study: The nature and extent of tobacco use worldwide The effect of tobacco use on health, the economy, the environment and society The efforts of the health community and health advocates to prevent and control tobacco use The activities of the tobacco industry and its allies to promote tobacco use

http://www.bmjpg.com/data/tob.htm

Newshound
Get AP, Mercury tobacco stories delivered to your mailbox.
http://www.hound.com/

POSTNet's Hot Wires Search Page
Up-to-the-second news, searchable. From the St. Louis Post. Warning: this is now a pay service; the stories disappear within a day or two. From the St. Louis Post
http://www.stlnet.com:8080/news/wires.nsf

PR Newswires Health Page
http://www.prnewswire.com/health/newshealthcare.html

PR Newswire Search-by-Industry Page
Tobacco is on list.
http://www.prnewswire.com/tnw/todays2.shtml

Tobacco Control Update
Quality Massachusetts quarterly by Tobacco Control Resource Center.
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/tcu/3-97/index.html

Universal Press Syndicate Opinion Writers
Wm. F. Buckley, John Leo, Gary Wills, etc. Sometimes handy for finding opinion columns unobtainable anywhere else.
http://www.uexpress.com/ups/opinion/

Thai Tobacco News
http://www.ash.or.th/news/tobacconews2.htm

Tobacco on Trial
Links to tobacco articles since 1996 from WCCO-TV and Channel 4000 (Twin Cities, MN)
http://www.wcco.com/news/tobacco5.html

Tobacco Reporter
An industry publication
http://members.aol.com/tobaccorep/cover.html

Tobacco Reporter
Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC)
http://www.irrc.org/profile/tis/newsdir.htm

Newswise Search
Business/Medical/Scientific publications
http://www.newswise.com/search-1.htm

Tobacco on Trial
Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune's site focusing mainly on Minnesota's lawsuit
http://www.startribune.com/tobacco/

Yahoo's Tobacco News Stories
Reuters, UPI & Press Releases.
http://biz.yahoo.com/news/tobacco.html

State-by-State Settlement info
From CTFK
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/

Tobacco Under Attack Page
CNN
http://www.cnn.com/US/9608/tobacco/index.html

Daytona Beach News Journal Tobacco Under Fire Page
http://www.n-jcenter.com/reprise/cig/cigstory.htm

Ft. LauderdaleSun-Sentinel's Tobacco News Page
There are many links to the Sun-Sentinel's stories, a quiz, a message board, and a cool video on secondhand smoke effects.
http://sun-sentinel.com/news/tobacco.htm

Miami Herald Tobacco Trials Page
The Herald's stories. Focus is on Broin.
http://www.herald.com/archive/tobacco/

Men's Health: Smoking
compilation of NY Times articles--way out of date!
http://www.nytimes.com/library/national/science/menshealth/smoki...

Wall Street Journal Tobacco Page
Superb, unparalleled tobacco coverage, $49/year. Explore WSJ's powerful search engines.
http://interactive6.wsj.com/edition/current/summaries/tobacco.ht...

Washington Post's Tobacco: On Trial
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/t...

USA Today Tobacco Stories Archive
http://www.usatoday.com/news/smoke/smoke00.htm

USA Today's Smoking and Health Page
Lots of Links to latest info.
http://www.usatoday.com/life/health/smoking/lhsmo000.htm

Smoking Medical articles
Medscape's great roundup of medical journal articles.

Studies have shown that cigarette smoking is the leading preventable cause of premature death in the United States, accounting for almost 500,000 deaths each year, which represents more than 5 million years of potential life lost. Medical costs directly related to smoking amount to $50 billion dollars annually. This Smoking Resource Center gathers the most current information on various aspects of smoking and tobacco use and includes news, conference summaries, articles, links to related Web sites, and more.

http://respiratorycare.medscape.com/Medscape/features/ResourceCe...

Winston-Salem History
from the Winston-Salem Journal's centennial edition section on tobacco.
http://www.journalnow.com/projects/centennial/tobacco.htm