Tobacco Internet Sites--New Finds!

Author: Gene Borio

tobacco control


  • 02/07/12 Smoking Stops Here Maryland's $14M Settlement-funded social marketing campaign.
      We're tired of the sickness. We're tired of the dying. We're tired of breathing secondhand smoke. We're tired of Big Tobacco manipulating us. It's time to take action HERE


  • 02/07/08 TobaccoMoney.comCitizens for a Healthy Michigan.
      The state of Michigan has not spent a single dollar of the tobacco settlement funds on health care or smoking prevention programs! Instead, the state has spent the money more than $1 billion so far on a variety of programs including computer technology, road construction, prisons, and funding for a rare isotope accelerator. But not a dime on health care or tobacco control! . . A proposal on the November ballot will ask Michigan voters to guarantee that 90 percent of the tobacco funds go to tobacco prevention efforts, research and health care. The Healthy Michigan Amendment requires that the tobacco money be spent on researching cures for tobacco-related illnesses, on educating teens not to smoke, on a prescription drug program for senior citizens, and on medical care for those suffering after a lifetime of smoking.




  • 02/06/15 Feel Free to Say No to Smoking European Commission/FIFA's anti-youth smoking campaign.

  • 02/05/29 Women and Smoking Campaign from the American Legacy Foundation. Includes a handy "Quit Plan"



  • 02/05/20 Smokers Vitamin

  • 02/05/06 Smoke-Free Families
      We are a group of organizations that have joined forces to help pregnant smokers quit smoking, forever. Weve created a new national partnership that can dramatically improve the health of mothers and their babies, while saving lives and cutting health care costs. To succeed, we need you and your organization. So get involved. Join us as we develop new breakthroughs and implement proven ones. Our studies show that even a brief counseling intervention can double, and in some cases even triple, quit rates among pregnant women. Helping pregnant smokers quit is one of the most important things we can do for healthier families now and for generations to come. With your help, we can make all this possible.



  • 02/05/03http://www.westchesterfacevalue.com"> Westchester Face Value
      The Westchester County, NY, "Face Value" campaign aims to counter tobacco industry messages that target young women by portraying smoking as glamorous, sexy, or 'cool' by revealing the truth about the negative effects of tobacco.

  • 02/04/14Campus Invasion.com
      Bad health is not the only effect of tobacco. The environment suffers as well. Virtually everything that is done to grow tobacco leaves can hurt the environment, as well as the people who grow it. What can you do to help? Well, the easiest thing to do is to stop smoking or encourage your friends and family to stop smoking. You'll better their health, and decrease tobacco demand. Less demand equals less production.


  • 02/03/06 PhilipMorrisCantHide From CTFK, an animated "e-movie" that spoofs Philip Morris' proposed corporate name change to The Altria Group. The tobacco giant's shareholders will vote on the name change at their annual meeting April 25. Billed as "the movie Philip Morris doesn't want you to see,"



  • 02/01/28 Smoking is Ugly.com Christy Turlington's site.



  • 01/11/13The Oral Cancer Foundation
      is a national public service, non-profit entity designed to reduce suffering and save lives through prevention, education, research, advocacy, and support. In the US, a person dies from oral cancer every hour of every day. However, when found early, oral cancer has an 80 to 90 % cure rate. This site will provide you with information about the rates of occurrence, risk factors which lead to oral cancer, treatments, current research, and current oral cancer related news. A patient / survivor forum is open to the public where those currently fighting oral cancer can gain insights and inspiration from those who have been there before them. A comprehensive resource list is also available to link you to other pertinent oral cancer data on the web and elsewhere for patients, caregivers, and the public.

  • The Tobacco Connection

  • 01/10/03 Celebrities against Smoking Full-length videos from the CDC.

    • Christy Turlington PSA
    • Jeremy London ads
    • Secrets Through the Smoke 55 minute video featuring Jeff Wigand
    • SLAM from Leslie Nuchow
    • My Kids
        a special report to help parents gain expert advice on how to keep their children free from substance abuse. Host Mark Hamill (Star Wars) guides viewers through a 30-minute video that describes resources for parents, gives tips from health care professionals, and offers testimonials from teenagers and adults, and features recording artist/musician and parent Richard Marx, who shares his concern about his children's future.

    • Boyz2Men Ad


  • 01/09/04 Bluegrass Quit and Win Kentucky smokers can win $ for quitting.
      The Clark County Health Department has teamed up with the Lexington-Fayette County Health Department for the first-ever Bluegrass Quit & Win 2001, where former smokers can win cash prizes for staying tobacco-free for one month



  • 01/07/10 Smokefree Apartment House Registry
      The Registry is being developed in response to the many requests we have received from the public for information about rental units which are free of drifting tobacco smoke. The Smokefree Apartment House Registry is a project of Smokefree Air For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) and Community Partners, Los Angeles. For many years, hotels and motels have offered smokefree accommodations. The demand for "non-smoking rooms" is so great, in fact, that few hotels will guarantee a smokefree room, even when it is urgently requested. Preliminary surveys in Los Angeles and Ventura Counties indicate there is also a strong demand for smokefree accommodations in apartments and condominiums. It is unfortunate that in some buildings, tobacco smoke can drift from one unit into another, or can enter an apartment or condo from halls, stairs, balconies, and patios. Most Californians are aware of the health hazards of secondhand smoke and wish to be protected from it. However, many apartment owners are not aware that they have the choice to designate all or part of an apartment building or complex as smokefree. Smokefree apartments are less costly to maintain and may be cheaper to insure. We offer a free listing on our web site: to apartment owners who have chosen to establish a total or partial smokefree policy in their buildings.


  • 01/05/23 Conscientious Consuming: The Boycott Against Tobacco Companies With an international, if outdated List of non-tobacco products



  • 5/22/01 Tobacco Cessation Online Training Center Arizona Dept of Health has a great Library, including short, punchy, just-the-essentials referenced resources. Very well-organized and useful resource.



  • 01/05/22 My Mind and Bodi
      Our Mission OUR GOALS: Our goal is to get 1,000,000 million parents/adults to spend time with a youth to discuss the effects of Smoking. YOUR HELP: When you buy a shirt from us we will donate $3 dollars of every shirt to Children Hospitals Also donations will go to outdoor causes that help the enviroment. If you want to suggest some places feel free to do so. We will donate to all the places we can. OUTCOME: What is the outcome? No we are not some big shot company trying to change the world. We are a small group of parents that want to make our own statement about tobacco in our own words and ads.


  • 01/05/22 HealthNow! The Massachusetts Chapter of the Alliance for a Healthy New England
      Nearly 300 hundred people turned out on May 9th to show their support for the Health Now! legislation. Our months of planning, coordinating and outreach really paid off at this hearing before the Joint Health Care and Taxation Committees. People from all over Massachusetts demonstrated their support of the bill by attending the hearing . . . Senate President Thomas Birmingham (D-Chelsea), a smoker, said that [he] will pay this tax to ensure a life of decency, dignity and some security for the decent, hardworking people who make up the vast majority of the uninsured. And we were thrilled that both tobacco survivors and uninsured people were able to come and share their stories.


  • 01/05/13 Smokefree World Lists restaurants catering to nonsmokers around the world! Available in several languages.

  • 00/12/26 SmokeFree Anchorage
      Breathe easy Anchorage! Thanks to the Smokefree Anchorage Ordinance all worksites, public places, and restaurants will be smokefree beginning December 31, 2000. This website has been designed to help employers, employees, and the community learn about Ordinance AO 2000-91(S). The website provides basic information and resources to the community to ensure successful implementation of the Smokefree Anchorage Ordinance. Cessation resources are also included to provide assistance to smokers who want help quitting tobacco use.



  • 00/10/03 Inhalex "your fiveminute digital smoke break" from The Independent Tobacco Corporation, set up this year by three former British American Tobacco (BAT) employees, has developed two new brands namely, Matrix and Rivas Park.



  • 00/09/01 Smokefree Apartments: Separating Myth from Reality Guidelines for apartment owners/managers from Association for Nonsmokers-Minnesota

  • 00/09/01 Smoking Problems From Neighboring Condominiums, Apartment Buildings, And Offices GASP of Colorado Education Library



  • 00/07/17 Cigarette Litter.org
      Every day, billions of cigarettes are dumped, one at a time, on our sidewalks, beaches, nature trails, gardens, and other public places. In fact, cigarettes are the most littered item in America. Cigarette litter can ruin even the most picturesque setting, but in addition to being unsightly, cigarette litter is damaging to the environment and also the cause of numerous fires every year, some of them fatal. CigaretteLitter.Org is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to significantly reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. Most people who litter their cigarettes don't fully understand the consequences of their actions. This web site and our other educational efforts are designed to get the facts out about cigarette litter to both smokers and non-smokers. Once people know the truth, they will be much more hesitant to unthinkingly flick their cigarette butts on the ground.



  • 02/04/12 Bio-Butt Filter Bio-degradable-butts? Tobacco companies aren't biting on this invention.



  • 7/16/00NicNet New Address, new look! Find out what the latest trends in nicotine and tobacco research are - it could save your life! Check out their ETS sites



  • 00/07/06 National Oncology Database
      The National Oncology DataBase (NODB) With the essential data used for Clinical Research, Market Research, and Regulatory Affairs, IMPACs NODB consists of more than 1.6 million cases with detailed longitudinal analyses on the presentation, treatment and outcome of cancer cases occurring throughout the United States. The NODB offers aggregated information from over 180 cancer registries, providing a nationally representative view of cancer therapies. No other database matches the integrity and depth of the NODB for current, retrospective, and longitudinal analysis.


  • 00/06/17 Apparently affilitated with Buttout.net
      Currently our boycott against Philip Morris is over. Philip Morris Company has promised to pull all of their ads out of magazines with high teen readership. We will monitor their advertising to make sure they honor their promise. The Philip Morris Company has threatened to sue the owners of PhillipMorris.Com. We will keep you posted of their corporate bullying on this web site.




  • 00/06/16 CIGARETTE BUTTS AS LITTER
      Welcome to the Cigarette Butts as Litter web site. Here, you can learn all about the #1 source of litter on earth! . . NOT JUST UGLY TOXIC TOO Cigarette butts are not just ugly - they also present a threat to wildlife. Cigarette filters have been found in the stomachs of fish, birds, whales and other marine creatures who mistake them for food. Recent studies conducted by Clean Virginia Waterways show that the chemicals in cigarette butts easily leach out of the butts, and are deadly to water fleas (a small but important animal that lives in most freshwater lakes and streams as well as the ocean). Composed of cellulose acetate, a form of plastic, cigarette butts can persist in the environment as long as other forms of plastic. More than 470,000,000,000 cigarettes were smoked in the U.S. in 1998, and many butts are washed into rivers and streams from parking lots and streets via stormwater.



  • 00/06/06 California Smokers' Helpline (a free tobacco cessation resource available to all people living in California)

  • 00/06/05 MO: Tobacco Settlement Scandal Republican legislator Brent Evans fights lawyers' tobacco settlement fees, urges funds go to taxpayers.




  • 00/06/02 Smokefree Jacksonville (FL)
      This site is dedicated to reducing the number of smokers, increasing public awareness on the dangers of tobacco usage and preventing the use of all forms of tobacco.



  • 00/05/31 BADVertising Institute
      Here in BADvertising Country we counter the seduction by doctoring-up tobacco ads to make them honest. By juxtaposing silly, gross and disgusting images on top of deceitful ads, we jolt people into realizing how tobacco imagery is concealing the truth, manipulating young people into addiction to tobacco, and duping the rest of society into addiction to their money. Artist Bonnie Vierthaler has done over 70 of these honest ads. Find them sprinkled around the site or click on Gallery to see them all. She calls it BADvertising. . . great visual materials for everyone from would-be quitters to lone crusaders to the largest health organizations. Hang a poster, give a slide show; send an e-mail greeting or put up a screen-saver for all to see.


  • 00/11/23 Tobacco Control Gallery Simon Chapman's update "art" gallery ofHealth effects of smoking (diseased organs, Brueger's amputations, etc.),Tobacco advertising from the merchants of death, Historical illustrations, Anti-smoking posters we like, Tobacco industry "leaders" (Bible, Boyse, etc.)



  • 00/04/23 Woodside Hotels & Resorts The California hotel chain which has banned smoking everywhere.

  • 00/04/14 Tobacco Control Resource Center



  • 00/04/05 Smokefree Apartment House Registry
      .The Smokefree Apartment House Registry is a project of Smokefree Air For Everyone (S.A.F.E.) and Community Partners, Los Angeles .Most Californians are aware of the health hazards of secondhand smoke and wish to be protected from it. However, many apartment owners are not aware that they have the choice to designate all or part of an apartment building or complex as smokefree. Smokefree apartments are less costly to maintain and may be cheaper to insure.We offer a free listing on our web site to apartment owners who have chosen to establish a total or partial smokefree policy in their buildings. Our web site will also be free to prospective tenants.

  • 00/03/20Framing the Framework Convention The FCTC Scorecard Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada
      The first drafts of the proposed Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and related protocols will provoke much discussion - and many differing opinions -- among traditional allies in public health. With the potential for so many comments and different opinions, it becomes important not only to make comments on the documents, but to have a way of considering comments, ones own and other peoples comments as well, so that all views can be taken into account in working towards a more polished international instrument that is both representative of a global consensus and an effective public health measure. This proposal seeks to provide a way to help participants evaluate and keep track of the various concerns and options are raised.


  • 01/11/22 Third Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body (INB)



  • 00/03/14 International Resources ASH-London
      This area of the ASH site provides information relevant to the development of international tobacco control efforts -- especially the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control

  • 2/25/00 Quitsmoking.com
      Not matronly. Not authoritarian. Just a down to earth community of equals - this is a site that`s for quitting smokers by quitting smokers.
  • Famous Dead Smokers
  • Vanity Facts
  • Chat: Quitters' Cafe
  • 2/15/0 Center for Addiction and Mental Health



  • 1/31/00 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists The people responsible for the BAT smuggling report. From the Center for Public Integrity.
      In an increasingly frontierless yet complex world, there is a need for in-depth information that transcends national boundaries. The International Consortium of Investigative Journalists was created to meet that need.


  • 1/21/00 Tobacco Dirt An excellent and sophisticated use of TBBS' "Republishers" News service may be seen on this site.



  • 1/10/00 Institute for Global Tobacco Control Johns Hopkins
      The mission of the Institute for Global Tobacco Control is to prevent death and disease from tobacco use around the world through research, education and policy development.
  • Ongoing Research Brazil, China, Mexico
  • ETS Chapter

  • 1/3/00 Tobacco Strategy From Tobacco Strategy Branch Ministry of Health and Ministry Responsible for Seniors Government of British Columbia

  • 12/27/99 Dr. Pearl's Famous 1938 Death Rates Study Leroy Pletten has summarized the data from this seminal study.
      Raymond Pearl, Dep't of Biology, School of Hygiene and Public Health, Johns Hopkins Univ, Baltimore, MD, "Tobacco Smoking and Longevity," 87 Science (#2253) 216-217 (4 March 1938)


  • 12/21/99 NIDA's Nicotine Page Lots of good addiction info, articles, conference reports.
      The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), is part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the principal biomedical and behavioral research agency of the United States Government. NIH is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

  • 2/21/00 NIDA National Institute on Drug Abuse
  • 12/20/99 Smokefree World
  • 12/20/99 Smokefree USA Search by state, then city

  • 12/9/99 Tobacco Control Supersite Simon Chapman's brilliant endeavor

    • Tobacco Control Issues by Subject
        ADDICTION AND PHARMACOLOGY , ADVERTISING & SPONSORSHIP, SMOKING CESSATION , CONSUMPTION AND PRODUCTION DATA , ECONOMIC STUDIES , EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES , ETHICAL INVESTMENT , HARM REDUCTION - the nicotine maintenance debate , HEALTH EFFECTS (including stomach-churning graphics) , HISTORY OF TOBACCO , HEALTH WARNINGS & PACKAGING , PASSIVE SMOKING , PESTICIDES AND TOBACCO , TAX , TOBACCO AND THE ENVIRONMENT , TOBACCO LITIGATION , SALES TO MINORS

    • Australian Tobacco Documents The source of Mark Ragg's spectacular Tobacco Files series.


  • 11/17/99 Great American Smokeout 1999

  • 10/25/99 WHO's Framework Convention on Tobacco Control Site



  • 10/11/99 Center for Medical ConsumersBack in the dark old days, long before the Net, when you were told you had some terrible disease, the doctor had all of about 5 minutes to explain to you all about the disease, your case, treatment options, etc. Sure, you could hike off to the library to do a complex and time-consuming search for the latest information. But your best bet, in the New York area, was to go to Art Levin's revolutionary Center, where all the latest news articles were filed and categorized, with knowledgeable help and a cheap copier right nearby.
      Founded in 1976, the Center for Medical Consumers (CMC) is a non-profit advocacy organization active in both statewide and national efforts to improve the quality and availability of health care. The Center is committed to better informed decision-making and maintains a free, publicly accessible medical library at 237 Thompson Street in Greenwich Village. HealthFacts, our monthly newsletter, makes a critical evaluation of the latest studies and medical advice. Our financial support comes entirely from private contributions, newsletter subscriptions, and the generosity of the Judson Memorial Church.



    • 10/4/99 Tobacco-Free Kansas Coalition Very nicely done, and featuring STAR Smokefree Teens are Rising



    • 00/10/17 World Communities against Tobacco (WCAT)
        The aim of WCAT is to create direct action. The site is about everyone working together as a team. If you have a question about ways to start action, argue, debate or anything not covered in a section, we are here to counsel you. We will not write a letter to your senator, MPP, or local restaurant, but we will look at it, give you feedback, help you re-write it, and give you information on how to make contact, be heard and create action. We encourage direct action. This may be as small as suggesting something for others that will create action or as large as maintaining a link from your city or country for others to access on our site. Either way you may email your information to the address at the bottom of this page. We will not guarantee that everything sent will be posted, however, feel free to send anything you want. Keep in mind, we will not post anything that contains excessive profanity, anything that implies any form of physical violence, or that promotes anything less than racial, gender, or human equality. We ask for useful information, facts, or anything that is not just personal opinion or one viewpoint. Something that can be applied directly. Theory in application please!



    • 9/22/99 "COLD TURKEY" 30th Anniversary Blowout



    • 9/22/99 Cold Turkey (1971) from the Internet Movie Database



    • 9/16/99 American Legacy Foundation

    • 9/14/99 WA: DOH Tobacco Program Just launched smoking prevention site. Featuring a handy list of

    • 9/6/99 Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network features a fine Smokefree Dining in Rhode Island section
        The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network: the American Lung Association of Rhode Island (ALARI), in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Health/ Project ASSIST, is coordinating the Tobacco Control Network.


    • 8/30/99 Society for Nicotine and Tobacco Research Abstracts Rich trove of nicotine research is finally online.



    • 8/2/99 Smokers Edge
        Now there's a new way to stop smoking -- temporarily, if not permanently. It's a healthy tobacco substitute, now becoming available right across Canada. Smokers Edge offers a blend of menthol, vanillin, chlorophyll and other national ingredients contained in a cigarette holder. Users draw on the tube as if it were tobacco, though they don't light it. Testimonials say it takes away the desire for tobacco for hours, even days.


    • 8/2/99 TOBACCO CONTROL The premiere international magazine--with the last four issues FREE till 2000!
        Published quarterly, Tobacco Control covers the political, economic, clinical and epidemiologic aspects of tobacco control. It helps increase the awareness of the magnitude of the problems caused by smoking and provides information on the effectiveness of cessation techniques. NOW AVAILABLE FULL TEXT ONLINE. Fully searchable archive, articles collected by topic, customised alerts, direct access to Medline, and much more...
    • Tobacco Control Updates Good precis of recent news, with emphais on legal battles.

    • 7/11/99 Virginia GASP provides a generous helping of local -- and some national -- in-depth tobacco coverage.
    • Business as Usual in Virginia compiles a lot of info on the demise of 2 tobacco control measures.
    • ALERT: Vote due in U.S. Senate after July 12 recess on immunity for tobacco industry us the Senate reconvenes 7/12 and may vote on the appropriations bill for Commerce, Justice, and the State Dept.



    • 6/29/99 Coalition for a Tobacco-Free Arizona Nicely done.


    • www.breathingspace.com
    • 6/3/99 Star Wars Anti-Smoking Ad Campaign From 1983-84? Probably the only shot in existence of R2D2 smoking.
        By far the funniest of the Star Wars commercials, C-3PO enters a control room and finds R2-D2 smoking a cigarette. C-3PO tells Artoo how bad smoking really is, and that he wouldn't be a good example for others, upon which Artoo rids himself of it, and agrees upon it. Even though the commercial is funny, it has a very sad tone. The commercial is fairly rare, as it is not included on the 57 reel, but since it aired a lot, it shouldn't be too much of a journey to find.



    • 4/20/99 Abstracts for SRNT conference 1999 The Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco


    • 4/8/99 Get Outraged From the Mass. Tobacco Control Project. Succinct encouragement to act on tobacco control.


    • 10/28/99 Personal Memorials



    • 4/8/99 Smoking in the Workplace Resources for smoke-free policies; from ASH London


    • 4/5/99 Smoke Signals For all those who've asked for pictures of diseased lungs--feast! Site features photographs and video of lung surgeries (including lung reduction) and an area where visitors can print or e-mail postcards with stop-smoking poetry. From the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS)

    • 00/11/07 Smoking Sucks campaign From Newfoundland's Alliance for the Control of Tobacco. Gross-outs of diseased organs, etc.

    • 12/12/99 Koni's Anti Tobacco Advertising Project
        It is not easy to keep your home free of tobacco advertising. Ever notice that many 'health and beauty' magazines never have articles about the dangers of smoking? Those same magazines will also have ads with lovely young people portrayed as "really living" due to smoking cigarettes. Dare to defy those giants. Refuse to let their propaganda into your homes! Here is my list of magazines that do not contain tobacco advertising.



    • 3/5/99 Partnership for a Tobacco-Free Maine

    • 3/3/99 WHO: Tobacco Free Initiative Site
        In response to these concerns the Director-General, Dr Gro Harlem Brundtland, established a Cabinet project, the Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI), in July 1998 to coordinate an improved global strategic response to tobacco as an important public health issue. The long-term mission of global tobacco control, which will take several decades to achieve, is to reduce smoking prevalence and tobacco consumption in all countries and among all groups, and thereby reduce the burden of disease caused by tobacco.



    • 2/27/99 Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition


    • 2/16/99 Web Pages United Against Tobacco
        Owners of those home pages displaying one of these symbols... ...support the following tenets regarding smoking and the use of tobacco. . . If you would like your Web Page to be a Non-Smoking page, copy one of the following html fragments and place it anywhere on your home page.



    • 2/15/99 The Right to Know NetworkLots of activist goodies here.
        Welcome to RTK NET, a network providing free access to databases, documents, and conferences on the environment, housing, and sustainable development. From information on RTK NET, you can identify specific factories and their environmental effects; analyze reinvestment by banks in their communities; and assess the people and communities affected. There are no fees; RTK NET is free. It was established to empower citizen involvement in community and government decision-making.


    • 2/10/99 Tobacco and the Elderly The Center for Social Gerontology

      • Tobacco and Minorities
          The information provided on this site pertains to tobacco use by and its effects on old and young adults from communities of color in the United States. Because people in communities of color have been specially targeted by the tobacco industry, with the resultant suffering and death from tobacco-related diseases, we have included information on legal remedies now being pursued to redress these wrongful acts by the tobacco industry -- specifically lawsuits and legislative action related to the recent state tobacco settlements.

      • Bibliography of recent articles
      • Fact Sheet
      • Tobacco Settlement Funds: State Updates Focus on the elderly
      • 00/12/19 Recent ETS News Stories

      • 2/5/99 Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition



      • 1/27/99 Direct Evidence FORCES' extensive compilation of articles "debunking" reports of negative health effects of smoking. Apparently science has shown that smoking has little to do with cardiovascular disease, mortality rates, SIDS, problems in pregnancy, etc., but is great for colitis and Alzheimer's.
      • Health Risks

      • 1/4/99 ZYBAN.com From Glaxo Wellcome




      • 12/30/98 NEW N.O. P.A.T.S.Y HomePage Dr. Polevoy takes his war on Canadian tobacco interests to a new URL after his healthwatch.org URL was challenged on trademark issues by tobacco company IMASCO's Shopper's Drug Mart unit.
          An Ottawa based trademark attorney for Shoppers Drug Mart doesn't like the fact that we have used the word "healthwatch" in a phrase or sentence on our web site. . . In fact the URLs we tried to get, namely www.healthwatch.com or www.healthwatch.net were already in use, or reserved. Funny though, they had not been taken by Imasco, Telemedia, Multivision, or get this, not even by Shoppers Drug Mart itself.

      • 1/25/00 Golden Triangle's Tobacco Road Terry Polevoy's intensely opinionated coverage of the Waterloo (ON) City Council's smokefree battle, including background information on the participants, news stories, and names/contacts for the city council.

      • 12/4/98 Tobacco Victims' Memorial List
          Are you or someone you know a victim of tobacco? Click here to add a name to the list. . . This list is a memorial for the victims. I think it is a good thing that we remember amongst all the debate just what the numbers stand for. They are our loved ones, our friends, our neighbors, and ourselves. I dedicate this page to my Father. My hero and mentor. Ferd Jerome Hiebert He died from lung cancer, caused by tobacco, on August 31, 1994 at 6:00pm CST.



      • 12/1/98 The European Network for Smoking Prevention
          The European Network for Smoking Prevention is an International non-profit association who aims to develop a strategy for coordinated action among organisations active in tobacco control in Europe.



      • 10/25/98 CHEST The Cardiopulmonary and Critical Care Journal
          The Official Journal of The American College of Chest Physicians


      • 11/11/98 Smoke Free Maryland Coalition
      • 10/24/98 Smoke Free Maryland Voting Records Site!
          No matter what region of the State you live in, you can find out how your representatives voted on key tobacco use prevention issues from 1995 - 1998. Did they vote for YOU or for BIG TOBACCO? Click on a region in the left hand column to find out. . . How do future State Senators and Delegates feel about tobacco issues? Smoke Free Maryland wanted to find out. So we asked. Click on each region below to see how they responded.


      • 10/23/98 Families Against Tobacco Smoke Offenses and Odors (FATSOO)
          Fatsoo expects to have an effect on public opinion and politics as it relates to indoor tobacco smoking and litter carelessness. We are advocates for a smoke and litter free society without criminalizing the use or possession of tobacco by anyone. . . Fatsoos smoke cessation products, battery operated fans, smokeless ashtrays, gas masks, bumper stickers, buttons, t-shirts, jackets, caps and artwork are offered to support our efforts. Products are sold at substantial discounts.



      • 10/07/98 Working the Web: Using the Internet to Fight Substance Abuse From Join Together. Good basic intro. Nicely organized, going from Funding to Info-gathering to Advocacy to Collaboration. Unfortunately, it's only available in print, or (shudder) PDF; no HTML version available(!)
          Whether you're a newcomer to the Web or a veteran surfer, "Working the Web" will help you get the most out of the Internet. This 20 page Action Kit is filled with websites, tips and ideas on how to use the Internet to raise money, stay up-to-date, advocate and collaborate. Based on presentations Join Together staff have made nationwide, this practical guide has been fine tuned to meet your needs.



      • 09/30/98 Hong Kong Council on Smoking and Health Not a lot here yet. Mostly, Smoking and Passive Smoking in Children 1998


      • 09/26/98 ACSH: Tobacco American Council on Science and Health's tobacco page, featuring links to some of Priorities' innovative articles

      • 09/22/98 Healthy People 2010: Tobacco Use Healthy People 2010 Objectives: Draft for Public Comment
          Healthy People is the national prevention initiative that identifies opportunities to improve the health of all Americans. For two decades, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has used health promotion and disease prevention objectives to improve the health of the American people. . . Please note: All comments submitted will become part of the public record and will be made available at the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion and on this web site. All comments will be aggregated and distributed to the appropriate focus area lead agency or agencies, so it is not necessary to submit comments more than once. The Department of Health and Human Services will not respond individually to comments, although the contact information provided may be used to request clarification. All who provide contact information with their comments will be notified when the comment draft of Healthy People 2010 is available in the fall of 1998.
        Here's the full text

      • 09/01/98 Tobacco or Health WHO's collection of their authoritative publications, including

      • 08/29/98 The FraminghamHeart Study Some of the many recent articles on smoking to come out of this massive study are here



      • 08/24/98 The International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT)
          INWAT was founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
      • 08/24/98 Fact Sheets on Women & Tobacco Australia, Scotland, England, Thailand, Canada, USA
      • 01/07/01 Cancer Awareness in Scotland



      • 08/24/98 Non Smokers' Movement of AUSTRALIA
      • 08/24/98 Tobacco in AUSTRALIA: Facts and Issues
          A joint initiative of the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health, ASH Australia, Victorian Smoking and Health Program, New South Wales Drug and Alcohol Directorate and the Health Department of Western Australia.


      • 08/12/98 A Special Invitation to Smokers Ages 50+... From the University of Rochester Medical Center
          If you answered "yes" to these questions, and you are a smoker who wants to stop on your own, you can join over 1,800 people in a free and unique self-quitting program called Project50.


      • 08/11/98 Florida Online Tobacco Education Resources website
          the home page for Florida's Pilot Program on Tobacco Control. Visit here for the latest, up-to-the-minute information on the fight against teen tobacco use. You can view all sorts of tobacco-related links and a calendar of upcoming events. Or check out our teen anti-smoking sites on the right.
      • 08/11/98 Whole Truth Site
      • 07/31/98 Collected Resources: Smoking British Medical Journal articles. Page 1 of 4.


      • 07/24/98 Lifesaver UK's Health Education Authority site
          Welcome to Lifesaver...a website designed to offer the support, advice and motivation you may need to stop smoking for life. . . This site has been organised so you can access information about the effects of smoking, reasons to quit, how to stop, tips on how to get through withdrawal and the benefits of quitting, plus links to further help and related external websites.



      • 07/08/98 New Citations (CDC)
          The Office on Smoking and Health, part of CDC's National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, is pleased to make available citations of recently published, tobacco-related articles from behavioral, scientific, and technical literature. Please consult a technical, medical, or public library to obtain articles of interest.


      • 06/17/98 ADDICTION Online
          Addiction was established in 1884 and has been in continuous publication ever since, the longest established journal in its field. It has built up a reputation in that time for scientific quality, for the diversity of material it publishes, and for its pioneering role in stimulating and leading debate. It is committed to promoting communication - between disciplines, between cultures, and between scientists, practitioners and policy-makers.


      • 06/14/98 Societe de Tabacologie English Version Very little here yet, but this venerable group is to be watched
          " The goals of the Society is to stimulate the generation of new knowledge concerning tobacco smoking, more especially the tobacco dependence process and some related addictive processes, and to promote the diffusion and application of this knowledge."


      • 06/13/98 Clearing the Air around Nicotine Brief explanatory pieces, including a yearly award. From International Union against Cancer


      • 04/13/98 Southern Tobacco Communities Project
          The Southern Tobacco Communities Project aims to bring together community leaders in the health field, the tobacco community, and community development from six southern, tobacco-growing states (Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia) through roundtable discussions.
        Here is the STCP's Core Principles Statement Between The Public Health Community And The Tobacco Producers Community Jan. 28, 1998
          In the spirit of cooperation and with a commitment towards: * Reducing disease caused by tobacco products * Ensuring the future prosperity and stability of the American tobacco farmer, the tobacco farm family, and tobacco farming communities the undersigned organizations and individuals call on the president of the United States, the Congress of the United States, and all States Attorneys General to commit to supporting and enacting effective tobacco legislation and policies that include the following points of agreement.


      • 01/16/98 MASSACHUSETTS: 1997 NICOTINE DISCLOSURE REPORT American Cancer Society Here's the Table Summary of brands.


      • 01/08/98 Taking Action to Reduce Tobacco Use In-depth report, with hyperlinks to references. National Cancer Policy Board. Released January 8, 1998
          The nation needs a strategy to reduce the death and disability caused by use of tobacco products. That strategy may develop out of a renascent public debate about tobacco control policies that has intensified over the past three years.



      • 01/14/98 National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA)


      • 01/14/98 American Society of Addiction Medicine


      • 01/07/98 Save Lives, Not Tobacco The Coalition For Accountability
          Save Lives, Not Tobacco is a coalition of public health, consumer, medical, civic, labor and business organizations that advocates fair and effective tobacco control policies at local, state and national levels. We support measures that will reduce addiction, disease, disability and death caused by tobacco products. We believe that granting special protection to the tobacco industry is unjust and would undercut the ability to protect public health.

        GOV

      • How to Use the Freedom of Information Act
      • Automatic FOIA letter-generator
      • Tapping Officials' Secrets How to demand access to meetings and records.
          The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press is pleased to make this comprehensive [state-by-state] guide to open records and meetings laws available to you at no cost.

      2/18/00 Campaign Finance Reports and Data FEC's site keeps up-to-date with the 2000 Presidential, House and Senate campaigns.

    • 00/07/05 NY: Campaign Contributions From the Albany Times-Union.

      2/15/00 FAQvoter.com: California Edition Prop. 10 vs. Prop. 28.
    • 2/15/00 WA: I-174: Petition "To Ban Smoking in Casinos, Bars, Taverns, Restaurants, and Bowling Alleys in the State of Washington" Washington for Clean Public Air.
        January 7, 2000 I-714 was filed with the Secretary of State's office. January 28, 2000 First day of Signature Drive.

    • 1/27/00 CA: NO on 28
        Prop 28 was put on the ballot by the tobacco industry to kill anti-smoking programs that have reduced tobacco sales by 30 percent. In addition, Prop 28 will slash nearly $700 million a year from children's health and pre-school education programs.

    • Prop. 28 News Stories

  • Stop Big Tobacco.org
  • Yes on 28
  • Vote Prop. 28

  • 12/14/99 Campaign Finance Information Center

    • Tracker newsletter
    • Stories and Tips: Covering Campaign Finance
        The Campaign Finance Information Center collects stories that use campaign finance records to show how private money influences public policy. We've pulled the stories together into a database you can search by publication, state and headline subject. We collect tipsheets written by reporters covering campaign finance issues. We also offer you a list of sources specializing in campaign finance.

    • Power Search

      • Ellen Merlo's Contributions

      • 12/5/99 CRS Reports by Title from the Senate Democratic Leadership Committees. Don't look for the very latest here, but lots of Congressional Research Service tobacco reports may be found. You can see some of the issues with the CRS' refusal to put its reports online, and some other CRS sites at the CVF-NEWS site

      • 5/24/99 State Laws on Smoking The SOHO Guidebook (for small businesses)
          Some states have laws that address smoking in the workplace. Those laws can be fairly far-reaching in some states. Click on your state on the map below to get information about: * your state's general rule * coverage requirements (how many employees you must have to be covered by the law) * policy requirements (whether you must have a formal policy about smoking) * posting requirements (whether you have to distribute or post a written policy on smoking)


      • 5/19/99 Northern Light: USgovSearch Searching (not retrieval) is free till June 1. We're still having to pay to see our own government in action.



      • 5/19/99 WI: City Politics Ira Sharenow tracks the doings in Madison. You'd think this would be the province of a newspaper, or an agency.
          Madison, Wisconsin was once known as a progressive city. However, in recent years certain organizations have made vast campaign contributions. Unfortunately, Madison does not have electronic reporting of campaign contributions. Madison has no lobbyist reporting law. In order to compensate for this lack, I have created this web site as a public service.


      • OMB Watch
          OMB Watch is a nonprofit research, educational, and advocacy organization that focuses on budget issues, regulatory policy, nonprofit advocacy, access to government information, and activities at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). OMB Watch co-chairs several coalitions in these issue areas, and is a leader in the use of communications technology (e.g., e-mail, the World Wide Web, and on-line databases) for collecting data and disseminating policy information to community groups across the nation.

    • Right to Know Resources
        Let America Speak is a coalition of community and national organizations working to defend the advocacy rights of America's nonprofit community. This web site contains information and background about nonprofit advocacy and provides updates about legislative attacks and other threats to the advocacy rights of the nation's nonprofits. The Let America Speak Coalition is co-chaired by the Alliance for Justice, Independent Sector, and OMB Watch. Let America Speak also operates a moderated e-mail list which provides bill analyses, action alerts and other related information.

    • OMB Watch Nonprofit News Page
    • Regulatory News
    • Congressional Schedule
    • Contact Congress
    • Databases
    • Quicklinks to databases


  • Speaking Up In the Internet Age: Use and Value of Constituent E-mail and Congressional Web Sites
  • 1/25/99 Small Business Bill Jeopardizes Public Protections
      Rep. David McIntosh (R-IN), who chairs the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs (of the Government Reform and Oversight Committee), has plans to move legislation that creates a perverse incentive to violate agency reporting requirements. Misleadingly labeled the Small Business Paperwork Reduction Act, this bill (H.R. 391) has far- reaching implications for health, safety, and the environment.


  • 1/27/99 State and Local Government on the Net
  • 1/15/99 Political Junkie I can't even begin to list the rich links here, everything from state & federal government arms, political figures and orgs, news outlets of every kind, reporters, lobbyists, think tanks and more!


  • 12/18/98 Soft Money Laundromat NEW from Common Cause! Version 2.0

  • 12/3/98 E-thepeople.com
      simplifies the process of writing and reaching local, state and federal officials. From a convenient list, simply indicate the subject of your letter, then punch in your zip code, and the program will rummage through its database of 140,000 officials to find the proper respondents. Click on as many officials as you wish, then compose the petition or letter. Answer a few questions about yourself, then submit it. Visitors to the site can endorse your letter, if they wish, offer comments, and post copies to friends.



  • 10/19/98 JUDY ROBSON for State Senate; Robson Scores Perfect 10 On Anti-smoking Scorecard Wisconsin candidate Robson makes use of UCSF Tobacco report
      State Rep. Judy Robson, D-Beloit, received the highest score possible in a rating of legislators' behavior on smoking policies. No other member of the Wisconsin Legislature received a perfect score. The rating was part of a University of California San Francisco study of the tobacco industry's influence on Wisconsin politics. Five experts on tobacco policy rated all legislators on a scale of 0 to 10, with 10 meaning extremely favorable toward issues such as preventing teen smoking.



  • 10/01/98 CALIFORNIA: Prop. 10 This is the state's page, complete with arguments/rebuttals, and the full text of Prop. 10
      STATE AND COUNTY EARLY CHILDHOOD DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS. ADDITIONAL TOBACCO SURTAX. INITIATIVE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT AND STATUTE.



  • 09/10/98 White House Office of National Drug Control Policy Media Campaign The national anti-drug ads. So where does Bates Advertising, which handles B&W's Lucky Strike account (so well they were awarded the KOOL and Capri accounts last month), fit in? Good luck finding anything on tobacco at the Project Know Website (The Internet Portion of the Campaign).

  • 08/24/98 State Capital Strategies Information Site "Your quick connection to data on state governments." Good idea, but thin content so far. To be watched. . .


  • 07/31/98 FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE Here's the dirty little secret about your own government's proceedings: timely access to text records is strictly controlled, and accessible only by the rich, or corporations.
      Federal News Service allows you, for the first time, to read verbatim transcripts of the actual words spoken by American . . . leaders on matters of official Government policy and other issues of the day, the same day! FNS covers all Presidential statements; briefings at the White House, State, Defense and Justice departments; speeches and press conferences of major political leaders and spokespersons; and Congressional hearings. . . Searches and headline retrievals are free.



  • 9/27/97 Sen. Lautenberg's Tobacco Control Central Including a handy page on Tobacco Related Legislation


  • 5/31/99 ADBUSTERS: Revoke Philip Morris' Charter Adbusters is on the move again. PLUS: send a simultaneous letter to The Dirty Dozen, . . . a gang of 12 noxious magazines (Cosmopolitan, People, Better Homes, Playboy, Time, TV Guide, Newsweek, Family Circle, McCall's, Woman's Day, U.S. News, Sports Illustrated) ) that carry tobacco ads.
      The only way to change the behavior of a corporation is to recode it; rewrite its charter; reprogram it. Let's start by doing something so bold it chills the spine of corporate America. . . Let's apply the pressure, get the truth out, and never let up until the State of New York revokes the company's charter. Do your part by signing the petition.


  • 5/31/99 Death Penalty for Corporations Comes of Age
      That hypothetical "next time" may already be at hand-through an unexpected sister case recently filed by Alabama Circuit Judge William Wynn, seeking to revoke the charters of the nation's five major cigarette companies. Remarkably, Judge Wynn expects to succeed. He had never heard of Grossman or corporate charter revocations, when in May 1998 he filed a complaint in state court in Birmingham, Alabama, demanding that the corporate charters of Philip Morris, Brown & Williamson, R.J. Reynolds, The Liggett Group, and Lorillard Corporation be revoked. . . He stumbled across an obscure 19th century statute giving any citizen the right to petition the state for a "writ of quo warranto" - a Latin phrase meaning "by what authority?" As Judge Wynn explains it, the writ of quo warranto allows a citizen to file a lawsuit against any corporation, posing the question: By what authority are you holding a corporate franchise to do business, when you are in fact breaking the law?


  • 12/2/99 American Cancer Society Tobacco Control Page

  • 12/2/99 American Lung Association Tobacco Control Page

  • ASH--Action on Smoking & Health



  • Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights Another pioneering organization joins the Web. Very smart, informed and active on corporate, legal and legislative matters. Some excellent reports and resources, like, Responding to Tobacco Industry Attacks on the Scientific Evidence Linking Secondhand Smoke to Disease and Death



  • 9/2/99. Americans for Nonsmokers Rights has a particularly fine short-list of essential Tobacco-oriented links. Don't fortget their great Activist page and a very handy Legislative Links page


  • 04/08/97 Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids Site Full site lays out its case with surveys, news, and resources. Some sections:

  • Calendar lists a number of orgs' events.

  • A Chronology of Events in the War on Tobacco is a detailed timeline covering August, 1995-November, 1996
  • Carter Center Tobacco Control Program


  • Checking Your Smoking I.Q. - An Important Quiz for Older Smokers (NIH)




  • Smoking & tobacco abuse section of COHIS (Community Outreach Health Information System at Boston U.) Lots of good information, much of it--including a history section--angled to school-age youth. It also contains Boston-area quit-smoking programs.

  • 02/20/98 Demarketing Strategies

  • The DOC(tor) is ON(line) International site. Dr. Alan Blum's pioneering organization, Doctors Ought to Care.



  • 06/18/98 Tobaccofree.org Patrick Reynold's site is redesigned nicely, with some good smoking in movies links.
      The website features a Message to Youth, a Message to Adults, Quitting Tips and links. Message to Adults includes discussion of some important issues underlying today's tobacco wars, including the political scene. Message to Youth is unique in noting that the new pessimism among teens may be an additional significant cause of the recent teen smoking increase, along with smoking by movie stars and tobacco ad campaigns targeting kids. This page offers a common-sense way of addressing teens' pessimism. Created by Patrick Reynold, a grandson of tobacco company founder R. J. Reynolds; he turned his back on the tobacco business in 1986, a few years after his father, RJ Reynolds Jr, died from smoking.


    • Grades 7 - 12 Video
        School Library Journal said, "This dynamic presentation is enlivened by videos, posters, and overhead slides. Amusing and effective... This production, with its humor and varied format, is a powerful reminder of all the reasons to avoid tobacco and a useful resource for drug/ tobacco education programs in middle and high schools."

    • K-12: Assembly programs
        http://www.tobaccofree.org/patrick.html
      Today Patrick is a well known smokefree advocate and motivational speaker. His new assembly program for high schools and middle schools has won raves from school district officials, health educators and School Library Journal. A bonus: local media coverage of his talks to youth often bring the tobaccofree message to the whole community.
    • University Lecture
    • 01/12/10 Rendez-vous with Patrick Reynolds Philippe Boucher
    • for teens
        An anti-smoking website for teens which offers short descriptive summaries about the many great resources listed. Students are offered links to easily research tobacco news archives for school papers, learn about quitting, tobacco advertising, chewing tobacco, or download cool photos and art. The site's 'Message to Youth' page is empowering, and contains excellent speech material for teen peer educators.


  • Patrick Reynolds Goes Online RJ Reynolds' grandson brings his Foundation for a Smokefree America online. What a world -- a grandson of tobacco company founder R. J. Reynolds advocating a smokefree society. His crusade in its tenth year, Patrick Reynolds has become one of the nation's most dynamic speakers on tobacco issues. This website tells volunteers how to book a talk for him, complete with sponsor suggestions. Look up his history of the Reynolds family, "The Gilded Leaf" (Little, Brown, 1989)

  • Missouri GASP This vital site frequently shows Missourans what's happening in the state.




  • 01/05/02 Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control From Essential Action
      Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control was launched in 2000 to help support and strengthen international tobacco control activities at the grass roots level. The program pairs groups in the United States and Canada with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, and assists them in initiating meaningful shared activities. More than 300 groups in over 85 countries and 35 U.S. states are currently involved in the program. Participating groups include: youth networks and schools, tobacco control organizations, hospitals and medical associations, local government agencies, consumer groups, and faith-based communities.




  • Globalink The powerful international organization

    • 00/07/21 Tobaccopedia: The online tobacco encyclopedia A full, rich database of sites from the International Union against Cancer. Nicely organized, rich collection of subjects.

    • 11/10/97INFACT



    • 01/15/97 Madison, WI's favorite hellraiser (as cited by Mother Jones Magazine), Ira Snarenow's Tobacco WebSite

    • Join Together Online Join Together Online is a resource center and meeting place for communities working to reduce the harms associated with the use of illicit drugs, excessive alcohol and tobacco. Join Together Online is a project of Join Together and is funded by a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to the Boston University School of Public Health.




    • 01/03/27 Joe Chemo Gets his own Site Test your Tobacco IQ, Quit Smoking Tips and a history of Joe Chemo.
        Meet Joe Chemo, a camel who wishes he'd never smoked cigarettes. Joe is having trouble feeling COOL these days, now that he's lost most of his hair. Worst of all, Joe just figured out that he's been MaNiPuLaTeD all his life by tobacco companies. Poor guy -- his tobacco IQ never was very high. . . Joe Chemo was developed as an antismoking character by Scott Plous, a psychology professor at Wesleyan University, after his father nearly died from smoking. The idea was to present a more honest image of smoking than the Joe Camel character used by R. J. Reynolds. The first image of Joe Chemo ran in the Winter, 1996, issue of Adbusters magazine.


    • Kickbutt! Lots of great info.



    • 01/13/97 The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University(CASA) is a resource for research on addiction and substance abuse. It provides access to information, research and commentary on tobacco, alcohol and drug abuse issues including prevention, treatment and cost data.

    • National Tar Wars Tobacco Education Site from the American Academy of Family Physicians.
        This site is intended to give you and your organization some basic information about the American Academy of Family Physicians Tar Wars program, an award-winning national childrens tobacco education program. Tar Wars is an effective, innovative, and fun program that teaches fifth graders about the short-term, image-based consequences of tobacco use and how to think critically about tobacco advertising.


    • N.O. P.A.T.S.Y HomePage Dr. Polevoy takes his war on Canadian tobacco interests to a new URL after his healthwatch.org URL was challenged on trademark issues by tobacco company IMASCO's Shopper's Drug Mart unit.
        An Ottawa based trademark attorney for Shoppers Drug Mart doesn't like the fact that we have used the word "healthwatch" in a phrase or sentence on our web site. . . In fact the URLs we tried to get, namely www.healthwatch.com or www.healthwatch.net were already in use, or reserved. Funny though, they had not been taken by Imasco, Telemedia, Multivision, or get this, not even by Shoppers Drug Mart itself.


    • 1/3/99 Nosmo King Review Maine's STAN DAVIS combines magic and tobacco info into shows for young people.


    • 01/03/13 No Smoking Day From the UK: "Kiss It Goodbye"


    • 12/20/96Non-Smokers Rights Society Hot Canadian News and Info.


      • 9/19/00 http://bensonandhedges.org: This site presents the down side of tobacco sponsorships, and provides some information about Rothmans and the Vancouver Food Bank that didn't get much attention in the mass media.
      • 9/19/00 http://matineefashion.com: This site focuses on the marketing of cigarettes to women.



      • 7/16/00NicNet New Address, new look!


      • 09/17/98 The Onyx Group
          The Onyx Group is a nationally-recognized consultant firm that provides marketing communications and program development services, with particular emphasis in the areas of health promotion, substance abuse prevention, tobacco control, criminal justice, economic development, education and youth services. Clients include non-profit organizations, foundations, government agencies and businesses. The Onyx Group develops materials and approaches for the general market and for target markets, including communities of color, women and other populations that are underserved.. Based in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, just outside of Philadelphia, The Onyx Group is a partnership of Charyn D. Sutton, President, and Jesse W. Brown, Jr., Vice President.



      • 01/03/01 PETITION: Smoking Ban in Winnepeg 10-year-old Stefany Blackey's petition, the subject of Smoky air turns girl into activist Winnipeg Free Press


      • Princeton Accountability Project




      • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Looking for a grant? This is the place.
      • With Daily RWJF News from American Health Line, a commercial health news provider




    • 07/10/97 San Francisco African-American Tobacco-Free Project "We used to pick it - now they want us to smoke it!"




    • 01/07/98 Save Lives, Not Tobacco The Coalition For Accountability
        Save Lives, Not Tobacco is a coalition of public health, consumer, medical, civic, labor and business organizations that advocates fair and effective tobacco control policies at local, state and national levels. We support measures that will reduce addiction, disease, disability and death caused by tobacco products. We believe that granting special protection to the tobacco industry is unjust and would undercut the ability to protect public health.



    • 01/03/05 Scanned Tobacco Texts Wow! Leroy Pletten has scanned and posted a number of important out-of-print texts:


    • 03/12/97 ScarcNet The organization that pioneered electronic advocacy. Members only, but you can get info on how to become one.


    • 06/18/97 The remarkable Joe Cherner's Smokefree Educational Services is online. This site is a good example of Michael Tacelosky's local-tobacco-group website farm. If you don't know where to even begin in getting your group on the web, see Tac!


    • 04/21/97 Smoke-free Europe from the Finnish Ministry of Social Affairs and Health. Excellent source of European information, like the following:
      The first tobacco trial in Europe began in Finland in 1988, in the case of Pentti Aho, who suffered from several smoking related diseases, including cancer. Although the case, which hinges on proof of tobaccos health hazard, has been upheld at various stages, the leading lawyer for the plaintiff, Professor Erkki Aurejrvi explained that the appeals process will continue for the next three years. But be careful: one of the files Abstracts is 600K(!)

    • Smokefree Air For Everyone (S.A.F.E.)--a network of individuals injured or disabled by secondhand smoke. S.A.F.E. does a good job of amassing a lot of the material out there on ETS. Plus, you'll find Breathing Easy: A guide to smokefree entertainment in Southern California.

    • Smokescreen Plug in your zip code and you not only get a list of your representatives--you see how much they've received from tobacco interests and where they stand on tobacco issues! Plus current bills, votes, mailing lists and much, much more. The site which details the tobacco/politics connection. Pols can run, but now--thanks to "Tac"--they can't hide . . .



    • 01/12/06 Smoking Hurts
        Smoke-free businesses, restaurants, bars, cruises, coalitions, apartments & condos. Tobacco-free Mutual Funds & IRAs.


    • 11/4/98The Society for Research in Nicotine and Tobacco (SRNT) This is the premiere professional group dedicated to research in issues related to nicotine and tobacco.



    • 02/02/10 Stand Tall Against Tobacco (STAT) Designed by Texas medical students to teach seventh-graders about the dangers of tobacco, it has been chosen by the American Medical Association as the model for its national service project.


    • 02/21/98 Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco STAT


    • Tobacco Control Great publication from the British Medical Association. New address.




    • 08/05/97 Tobacco Control Super-Site Major resources, nice subject-oriented links to articles; Australian focus.


    • Tobacco Industry information Those "secret" documents you won't find anywhere else, plus editori