The Anti-Tobacco category focuses on activities designed to influence personal behavior, public opinion, and legislation regarding tobacco products in the direction of decreased use. It includes sites related to [MORE] Boycotts (4) Prevention (68) Regional (113) Regulation (20) Tobacco Control Resources (82) 1. A Smokefree World - Personal page of Robert Starkey. 2. 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. 3. Action on Smoking and Health - Canada - Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention. 4. Advocacy Info: Tobacco - Information from the American College of Cheest Physicians on tobacco advocacy. 5. 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. 6. 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. 7. Altria Means Tobacco - Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria. 8. American Lung Association Action Network - How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy. 9. Anti-Smoke Japan - English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan. 10. AntiSmokingAds.org - Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research. 11. ASAP911Tobacco - Individual advocate in Kentucky. 12. 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. 13. 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. 14. ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control - Programs of the U.S. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to raise the visibility of tobacco prevention and control issues among state health officials and their senior staff. 15. 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. 16. 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. 17. 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. 18. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids - Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobacco companies use to entice youth as their new customers. 19. Cigarette Litter - Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. 20. Connecticut Stop Tobacco-Save Kids - Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less. 21. Consumer Voice: Tobacco - Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India. 22. 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. 23. 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. 24. Dr. Judith Mackay Speaks About Tobacco and Globalization - A report from CorpWatch. 25. EMRO Tobacco Free Initiative Homepage - World Health Organization initiative on tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) provides posters and factsheets on smoking in English and Arabic, Islamic rules and Christian views on smoking. 26. 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 the former Soviet Union. 27. European Network for Smoking Prevention - Active in tobacco control in Europe. 28. FCTC Now! - Provides a way for invdividuals and groups to express their support for the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. 29. Feel Free to Say No - EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages. 30. Fight With Fact - Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco. 31. Filter Online - A tobacco advocacy newsletter for central and eastern European countries, published by the Hungarian Health Center. 32. Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization - Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco. 33. 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. 34. Gayatri Pariwar - Jaipur, India based organization aims to motivate and inform people about tobacco. 35. Get Outraged - "Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary citizens get involved in the fight against Big Tobacco." 36. Give Tobacco The Boot! - Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos. 37. Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland - Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Switzerland. 38. Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses - An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper. 39. Health Promotion: Global Perspectives - Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally. 40. International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco - News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials. 41. 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. 42. Kids Before Profits - Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco. 43. Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board - Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco. 44. Making it UNCOOL - Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products. 45. 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. 46. Michigan Smoke-Free Dining Act Petition Drive - Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan. 47. 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. 48. 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. 49. Nicotine Victims - Focus is on tobacco product addiction. 50. NYPIRG: Tobacco - Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do. 51. Philip Morris Can't Hide - Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action. 52. Philip Morris Info Sheet - From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus. 53. Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada - Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada. 54. PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign - Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest. 55. Policy Advocacy on Tobacco and Health (PATH) - Provides grants, technical assistance, research, and training for tobacco policy advocacy to community groups serving communities of color. 56. Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation - ASH publication. 57. Public Citizen: Tobacco - Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation. 58. 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. 59. Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page - Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco. 60. 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!" 61. SIF Research: Tobacco's Changing Context - Explores the different approaches that shareholders can take in formulating a response to tobacco, such as divestment, modification of investments and shareholder resolutions. A sampling of institutions, including pension funds, universities, insurance companies and foundations, along with their responses, is included. 62. 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 manipulation of music to promote smoking. 63. 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. 64. Smokefree.net - A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces. 65. Smokinghurts.com - Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research. 66. StatesOnTheTake.com - Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry. 67. Taking Down the Marlboro Man - Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC. 68. Taking on Tobacco Imperialism - Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand. 69. 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. 70. The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues - Award-winning site examines non-health related tobacco industry fraud and false claims issues, presenting authentic tobacco company documents to illustrate tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and claims. Features grassroots programs and interactive content. Offers a related book for publication. 71. The Syrian Center For Tobacco Studies - Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria 72. 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. 73. Tobacco and the European Union - ASH-UK factsheet presents information about smoking prevalence, tobacco-related deaths, and tobacco control policies. 74. Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 - Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry. 75. 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 executive branch limited the scope of the program to adolescents and pregnant women, and prevented it from attacking the tobacco industry or focusing on secondhand smoke." 76. Tobacco Control Supersite - Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia. 77. Tobacco Free Initiative - World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco. 78. Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan - Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion. 79. 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. 80. Tobacco in Developing Countries: Dream Scenario or Shrill Wake-Up Call? - A slide show countering some of the common myths related to tobacco and developing countries. 81. 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. 82. 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. 83. Virginia GASP home page - Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct. 84. Wallgreens.Com - A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products. 85. WorkSmokefree.com - Advocates for smokefree workplaces in Oregon. 86. World No Tobacco Day Ecards - Send an ecard to encourage someone you know to take action against tobacco use. 87. Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change - Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates. 88. 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. 89. Burning Brain Society - Burning Brain Society is a voluntary Civil Society Organization in India with a focus on tobacco policy and how this affects young people and their future. 90. 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. 91. Grand Unification Press - Sells a children's educational book entitled "Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking". 92. Health Canada: Tobacco - Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations. 93. 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. 94. Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. - Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider' 95. Licensed to Kill, Inc. - Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money. 96. MASSPIRG: Tough On Tobacco - Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives. 97. National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) - Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada. 98. 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. 99. Smoking and Islam - Asserts that Islam forbids smoking. 100. Smoking and Islam - Asserts that Islam forbids smoking. 101. Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition - Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada. 102. Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East - Report from the WHO Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents tobacco industry front groups, lobbying, PR campaigns, spying on tobacco control organizations, and delaying or blocking anti-tobacco measures in the region. 103. 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.

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