| 1. | Tobacco or Health | | | Kind of a home page for tobacco from the World Health Organiziation. "Tobacco causes six per cent of all deaths in the world and the toll is increasing rapidly. Tobacco causes more deaths than all other forms of substance abuse combined." Quarterly bulletin, fact sheets, white papers, breakdown of tobacco disease and death by country.
www.who.ch |
| 4. | Find Smoking Information: Free Quit Smoking, Find, Information, Statistics, Cigarettes, Cigars, Downloads | | | Quit smoking information, statistics, women, children, pregnancy, cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, second hand, nicotine.
www.soulis.com |
| 5. | UCSF Tobacco Control Archives | | | California has been a leader in tobacco control; UCSF maintains an archive of important documents, including many formerly secret tobacco industry internal memos.
www.library.ucsf.edu |
| 6. | Does the tobacco industry encourage kids to shoplift? | | | Feature article on Colorado attorney general Gale Norton, who's investigating whether "tobacco companies know cigarettes are regularly stolen by minors -- and they're paying big money to make sure convenience stores and other retailers don't do anything about it, as part of an effort to hook kids on smoking."
www.westword.com |
| 7. | Tobacco/Nicotine/Smoking-Publications | | | Health analysis of public policy and legislation, including how much tobacco industry money it takes to get a politician to vote against public health.
www.library.ucsf.edu |
| 8. | Republican National Committees | | | The tobacco industry is a top giver of "soft money" to both political parties, but lately Republicans have been getting over 80% of tobacco money. The recent killing of the McCain tobacco bill shows that Congress has been an excellent investment for the tobacco industry.
www.pbs.org |
| 9. | American Lung Association: Tobacco | | | Fact sheets from the American Lung Association on quitting smoking, smoking and women, upcoming legislation, smoking and teens, secondhand smoke, and more.
www.lungusa.org |
| 10. | Tobacco Industry Information | | | Formerly secret tobacco industry documents expose the tactics and objectives of the tobacco industry and its collaborators. E.g. "I guarantee that I will use Brown & Williamson tobacco products in no less than five feature films, for a fee of $500,000.00. Sincerely, Sylvester Stallone, April 28, 1983"
www.gate.net |
| 14. | State Tobacco Information Center | | | seeks to keep the public informed of developments in the effort by state attorney general to bring the tobacco industry to justice.
stic.neu.edu |
| 16. | American Cancer Society-Cancer Facts and Figures 1998: Tobacco Use | | | Facts from the ACS; shows that "smoking gives you cancer" doesn't tell you the half of it. E.g. more women have died from lung cancer than breast cancer since 1987; tobacco causes one of every five deaths in America; tobacco costs the U.S. more than $100 billion a year in medical bills and lost productivity; and more.
www.cancer.org |
| 17. | QuickTime: PSA | | | A quicktime video clip with an anti-smoking public service announcement that aired in California, until it was pulled by governor Pete Wilson. Wilson is "still a good friend" of the tobacco industry, according to an exposed industry document. Pulling this ad from the air probably made the industry very happy: it was tough, it was effective, it made its point, and it named names.
bsd.mojones.com |
| 20. | WHO: World Tobacco Facts | | | Terse fact sheet from the World Health Organization's tobacco conference. The numbers today mean that tobacco will kill 10 million people a year in 30 to 40 years, 70% of them in developing countries.
www.who.ch |
| 21. | Dave Goerlitz, former Winston Man | | | Goerlitz was a lead model for Winston cigarettes during the 1980's. In 1988, he began a personal journey to try to undo the damage his ads have done in addicting young people to tobacco products. His message is: (1) the ads are lies, (2) tobacco use will not make you "cool" or a success as the ads promise
formerwinstonman.findhere.com |
| 22. | JAMA: Table 1A, Jul 19 JAMA. 1995;274:219-224] (c) AMA 1996 | | | JAMA: Public vs. Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Nicotine and Addiction; Low Tar Cigarettes; Industry Research and PR. Compares what the tobacco industry said privately with what it told the public, the Congress, and its customers.
www.ama-assn.org |
| 23. | Lung Cancer for Patients | | | "In 1990 91,091 men and 50,194 women died of lung cancer. This is extremely sad as most of these deaths were preventable. The cause of most lung cancer is known and is avoidable". If you had a friend who was a pathologist and asked him for a bottom-line summary on the disease, its causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, this is what you'd get.
www.erinet.com |
| 25. | JAMA: Table 1C, Jul 19 JAMA. 1995;274:219-224] (c) AMA 1996 | | | Public vs Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry: Cancer; causation; secondhand smoke. Example: internal Brown and Williamson Tobacco document in 1986: "involuntary smoking is a cause of disease, including lung cancer, in health nonsmokers"; public statements by the industry at the same time: "environmental tobacco smoke has not been shown to cause lung cancer in nonsmokers".
www.ama-assn.org |
| 27. | Meds.com: Lung Cancer Library | | | Both physician and patient versions of information sheets on smoking, secondhand smoke, lung cancer, metastases, clinical trials, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and short topics. The facts.
www.meds.com |
| 28. | WHO: The Tobacco Epidemic | | | The World Health Organization (WHO) summarizes the situation worldwide: "each year, tobacco causes about 3.5 million deaths throughout the world; this will increase to 10 million annual deaths during the 2020s, with seven million of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Half of these unnecessary deaths are occurring in middle age (35-69), robbing those killed of around 22 years of life."
www.who.ch |
| 29. | Help for Tobacco Addiction | | | Information and resource web site for tobacco products and usage. "If Tobacco does not kill you it makes your life a living hell."
www.smokehelp.org |
| 30. | Join Together Online: Substance Abuse | | | Join Together is a national resource center for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence. "Tobacco is the most common substance abuse problem, and the most lethal. Tobacco causes 400,000 deaths each year, killing more people than AIDS, alcohol, drug abuse, car crashes, suicides, and fires combined."
www.jointogether.org |
| 33. | Tobacco: Up in Smoke? News archive from The Richmond Times-Dispatch | | | Special coverage of the tobacco industry from the heart of tobacco industry country: Richmond, Virginia, headquarters of Philip Morris, the largest tobacco company in the world. Over 200 news articles written by Richmond Times-Dispatch staff writers.
www.gatewayva.com |
| 35. | 1998 Cigarette Brands Preferences of American Teens | | | Just three brands account for almost all youth smoking: Marlboro (a Philip Morris product), Newport (a Lorillard product), and Camel (an RJR/Nabisco product). "These have been among the most heavily advertised and promoted cigarette brands, in particular Marlboro...two of them (Newport and Camel) have aggressively pursued youth-oriented themes in their advertising."
monitoringthefuture.org |
| 36. | Ontario Tobacco Research Unit | | | The OTRU was established by the Ontario Ministry of Health in 1993 to undertake a program of research, development and dissemination of knowledge about effective tobacco control programs and policies. OTRU tries to ensure that existing knowledge is critically evaluated, summarized appropriately, and made available in the most useful form. It plays a key role in monitoring the Ontario Tobacco Strategy.
www.arf.org |
| 37. | Smoke in the Eye | | | "The Insider" which opened Nov 5th is about Jeff Wigand, CBS, and Big Tobacco. A documentary covering the facts behind the movie.
www.pbs.org |
| 39. | Tobacco Reduction Homepage | | | Mission is to help Canadians to become and remain smoke-free through the provision of appropriate information pertaining to tobacco prevention, protection and cessation.
hwcweb.hwc.ca |
| 41. | Osservatorio sul Tabacco | | | (Italian language. Scientific journal on tobacco) Il fumo di tabacco rappresenta la causa più importante di malattia e di morte nei paesi occidentali. Sul fumo sono pubblicati ogni anno numerosi articoli su riviste scientifiche. Questo patrimonio di informazioni, indispensabile per programmare qualsiasi intervento preventivo, è spesso di non facile reperibilità, mentre sarebbe utile un costante aggiornamento sia verso gli operatori sanitari, sia nei confronti degli altri soggetti (insegnanti, autorità pubbliche) che molto possono fare in campo preventivo. Su iniziativa del Registro Tumori Lombardia e con l'indispensabile supporto della Lega Italiana per la Lotta contro i Tumori di Varese e di Milano e della Azienda Sanitaria n.1 (Varese) della Regione Lombardia é stato costituito un centro di documentazione (l?Osservatorio sul Tabacco) il cui compito é raccogliere, classificare e rendere disponibile a tutti gli interessati le informazioni che compaiono sulla letteratura scientifica. Tutto questo mediante una banca dati strutturata per questo scopo.
www.istitutotumori.mi.it |
| 43. | NCTH: Smoking and Health FAQ | | | Are low-tar cigarettes safer? How many years does smoking take from a smoker's life? How much does smoking cost the economy? The questions and others are answered in this FAQ. All sources are cited.
www.cctc.ca |
| 44. | The Inhalers | | | "They may not smoke tobacco products, but some in Congress are addicted to the industry's money." Common Cause on tobacco money in Congress: how much, who gets it, and what it buys.
www.ccsi.com |
| 45. | Tobacco Under Fire - Part 1 | | | In March 1994, ABC killed a "Turning Point" documentary on Big Tobacco. The text and some of the video (as QuickTime clips) is now available on this site.
www.mojones.com |
| 47. | The Tobacco Wars | | | Well designed, colorful, web site provides a capsule history of tobacco, from 1492 ("Columbus gets a gift") to 1988. Where did the tobacco industry as we know it come from, and when and how did the existence of tobacco turn into the selling and promotion of tobacco? This site has answers.
bsd.mojones.com |
| 48. | The Nicotine Network | | | Outstanding series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particularly strong in exposing "astoturf": front groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.
bsd.mojones.com |
| 51. | CBS 60 Minutes | | | Transcript of now-famous 60 Minutes show on nicotine manipulation. Were tobacco industry CEOs telling the truth, when they swore to Congress that nicotine is not addictive? Also covers intimidation of tobacco industry whistleblowers.
www.gate.net |
| 52. | Phil Hilts: The Tobacco Wars | | | Talk by New York Times reporter Phil Hilts at Harvard University. How the tobacco industry intimidates journalists, critics, and the media; tobacco history; how the tobacco industry uses PR to influence attitudes of the public and of lawmakers. Excellent.
www.ksg.harvard.edu |
| 53. | Tobacco industry undermines public health efforts worldwide | | | Concise, well documented summary of how the tobacco industry does it: corporate PR, junk science, campaign contributions, well financed lobbying, massive advertising. Results are global: in the 1980's, the U.S. Trade Representative, on behalf of Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds tobacco, helped force Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand to water down their tobacco restrictions.
www.infact.org |
| 54. | Face the Faces | | | The human toll of tobacco, from INFACT. Started in response to Congressional testimony by a tobacco executive that the people who die each year from tobacco are just a "computer-generated number." This site shows some of the people who are dying or dead of diseases caused by tobacco, accompanied by text written by friends and family.
www.infact.org |
| 55. | Tobacco Control Resource Center | | | Home page for the Tobacco Control Resource Center at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston.
www.tobacco.neu.edu |
| 59. | The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking | | | "Tobacco-related health effects decline substantially" when the smoker quits, but some damage is irreversible: "a permanent effect on the lungs, the heart, the eyes, the throat, the urinary tract, the digestive organs, the bones and joints, and the skin".
www.acsh.org |
| 62. | Council for a Tobacco-Free Ontario Home Page | | | The Council for a Tobacco-Free Ontario (CTFO) is a volunteer-directed, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to eliminate tobacco use in Ontario. Updates on Canada and the U.S. Extensive resources area. In English and French.
www.opc.on.ca |
| 67. | Sponsorship promotion | | | How the tobacco industry uses sports and racing sponsorships to promote its products.
www.who.ch |
| 68. | The Price of Coffins: Specious Arguments by Eeminent Doctors against the Dangers of Tobacco | | | Letter to the British medical Journal reviews some tobacco, medical, and public policy history: "good evidence showed that smoking causes lung cancer; the media's response to this information was initially resistant; specious arguments were used to detract from the real issue, which confused the general public and lessened its concern; after 40 years there has been little change in smoking rates."
www.bmj.com |
| 69. | Asbestos and Cigarettes | | | Asbestos and cigarette smoke both cause lung cancer, but some types of lung cancer are specific to one cause. A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys who represent people who have cancer from asbestos exposure.
www.asbestosrights.com |
| 70. | The Hurt Never Goes Away | | | Over 400,000 Americans die each year due to tobacco use. COST has provided a way for the survivors to express themselves, share their pain.
www.costkids.org |
| 71. | Review of R.J.R.'s Internal Documents Produced in Mangini vs. R.J.R. | | | The suit that brought the end of Joe Camel also produced some very interesting documents, formerly tobacco industry secrets, which reveal exactly how, why, and when R. J. Reynolds designed the Joe Camel campaign. Find out what kids are worth to the tobacco industry.
www.library.ucsf.edu |
| 72. | The Password Guide to Cigarettes | | | Cigarettes can be as addictive as any drug. The password web guide takes a good look at cigarettes: how they're advertised, why they're so addictive, and how to quit.
www.thepassword.com |
| 73. | DOC: Positive Health Strategies for the Clinic, Classroom, and Community | | | Doctors Ought to Care (DOC). "DOC has not been afraid to take risks in dealing with our nation's major health issues. A far cry from pamphlets and preaching about the 'dangers', DOC focuses on changing attitudes that have been molded by misleading advertising in the mass media."
www.bcm.tmc.edu |
| 74. | NicNet--Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco Research | | | Nicely organized site has lots to offer: prevention, cessation, policy, kids, secondhand smoke, cigar smoke, pipe smoke, spit tobacco, tobacco news, tobacco resources, academic and research sites.
tobacco.arizona.edu |
| 75. | Don't Be Fooled Again Report | | | "Welcome to a new era of cooperation" as B&W Tobacco put it on March 1998. A kinder, gentler, tobacco industry? This report from Public Citizen is skeptical.
www.citizen.org |
| 77. | YPH Home Page | | | Information and news on a variety of health topics for youth, including tobacco.
www.youthpartnership.org |
| 78. | Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. | | | Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the major motion picture 'The Insider'
www.jeffreywigand.com |
| 79. | Holy Smoke! | | | The Virgin Mary was a Marlboro woman--and other marketing that the industry uses abroad.
www.motherjones.com:80 |
| 81. | Burning Down the Houses | | | Report from Public Citizen on tobacco money in the U.S. House of Representatives.
www.citizen.org |
| 82. | Sweethearts of Big Tobacco Report | | | Who are the top ten tobacco PAC recipients in the Senate? How about the House? This report tells all! You'll find some well-known names out there, people heavily involved right now in national legislation affecting Big Tobacco, who never saw a tobacco dollar they didn't like.
www.citizen.org |
| 84. | Tobacco Facts | | | From British Columbia, an excellent site with lots of information on smoking and the tobacco industry in Canada.
www.tobaccofacts.org |
| 86. | Smoking and Diabetes | | | Nice medical rundown from the Canadian Diabetes Association on the effects of smoking on diabetes.
www.diabetes.ca |
| 87. | The Nation - Selected Feature | | | Science writer Philip Hilts, who has written about eighty stories on tobacco, twenty-five on the front page, was summarily removed from that beat three years ago after one particularly uncomplimentary story about Philip Morris.
www.thenation.com |
| 90. | Gasp! is Frank Freudberg's chilling thriller | | | Gasp! is a novel of revenge about a journalist dying of lung cancer who wants to destroy the tobacco industry while being persued by an ex-cop whose own problems help him track down the madman. Some smell movie potential here :-)
www.freudberg.com |
| 91. | Washingtonpost.com: Tobacco Health Issues | | | Nice collection of stories from the Washington Post. Check out "1980 Philip Morris Memo Spoke of Need to Hide Nicotine Studies" and "Cancer Institute Calls Cigars As Hazardous as Cigarettes".
www.washingtonpost.com |
| 94. | CJR - Darts & Laurels, Jan/Feb 1993 | | | (Search for "Burning Issues"). In the 1970s "twenty-six bioscientists who were studying the link between smoking and disease were suddenly fired by R.J. Reynolds after company lawyers had collected their laboratory reports; the research was never made public and was never resumed". Meanwhile Reynolds, with the rest of the tobacco industry, continued to maintain that the link between smoking and disease was "not proven" and "more research was needed".
www.cjr.org |
| 95. | Tobacco Control Super Site | | | Links on tobacco control most useful for public health researchers and advocates in addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia.
www.health.su.oz.au |
| 96. | Tobacco's Big Lie | | | Speech given by Jimmy Carter, July 30th 1995. "Like many public officials, I believed the tobacco industry could be persuaded to behave responsibly. Today I know better. I know that tobacco is a powerfully addictive substance that kills more Americans than alcohol,illegal drugs, car and airplane crashes, homicide, suicide, fires and AIDS combined. And I know that the tobacco industry cannot be trusted to protect our children."
www.emory.edu |
| 97. | Tobacco Control Archives | | | is a central, organized source of information on tobacco. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
galen.library.ucsf.edu |
| 100. | Tobacco use in British Columbia | | | Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. Good summary of the "umber one preventable cause of death in British Columbia, killing more than 5,800 people and costing the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars annually."
www.hlth.gov.bc.ca |
| 101. | Tobacco industry's five-year battle to gut anti-smoking education in California | | | San Francisco Weekly article on tobacco industry lobbying to illegally divert money from anti-smoking education programs in California. "With great stealth and political savvy, the documents show, the tobacco industry was able to strike alliances, dole out campaign money, pressure lawmakers, and partially undo the will of the voters, all in an effort to keep people smoking"
www.sfweekly.com |
| 102. | PioneerPlanet: Minnesota tobacco litigation | | | The site details Minnesota's and Blue Cross/Blue Shield's lawsuit against the tobacco industry. Includes St. Paul Pioneer Press articles and links to other resources.
www.special.pioneerplanet.com |
| 106. | McSpotlight on the Tobacco Industry | | | Which tobacco company also makes Maxwell House coffee? Which is the largest tobacco company in the world? This site has answers.
www.mcspotlight.org |
| 108. | ASH Thailand | | | Report in English and Thai on merchandising and selling of tobacco, globally and in Thailand. Featured sections on "Foreign Imports (The Marlboro Man comes to Thailand)" and "Circumventing Thai Law".
www.ash.or.th |
| 110. | NCI Monographs | | | "Cigarette smoking remains the single, major preventable cause of cancer deaths in the United States, far surpassing any other known environmental agents or risk factors." From the National Cancer Institute, papers on tobacco and the cliniciian, community based interventions for smokers, cigars, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and more.
rex.nci.nih.gov |
| 112. | Tobacco Control Super Site | | | Links on tobacco control most useful for public health researchers and advocates in addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia (mirror of su.oz.au site).
www.health.usyd.edu.au |
| 113. | Giving the party line, part I | | | Philip Morris training manual. Tobacco industry PR responses can sometimes be traced to this, word for word.
www.gate.net |
| 114. | Giving the party line, part II | | | Second part of Philip Morris training manual. What to say if people ask you if your product is addictive, if it kills its customers, if it gives diseases to people near its customers.
www.gate.net |
| 115. | 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!"
www.polarisinc.com |
| 117. | Smoking: Through The Eyes of Teens | | | Video program on smoking developed by teens for teens. Features "man in the street" interviews which help demonstrate that most smokers didn't realize how quickly and how deeply they'd become addicted.
www.visual-mentor.com |
| 121. | Buying Science (or the appearance thereof) | | | Report on how the tobacco industry paid thousands of dollars to scientists to write letters to influential publications, trying to cast doubt on the health effects of secondhand smoke. Lawyers for the tobacco industry edited the scientists' letters, in some cases wrote the letters.
www.pioneerplanet.com |
| 123. | PR Watch: Tobacco Front Group Exposed! | | | Wolves in Sheep's Clothing. "Special-interest Watchdogs" Exposed as Tobacco Industry Front Group". Excellent article from PR Watch, a *real* watchdog group.
www.prwatch.org |
| 124. | Who's Wielding Power in Washington | | | "1995, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio) distributed checks from tobacco PACs to members on the floor of the House. That was a signal to many critics of Congress that corruption had become institutionalized".
prcentral.com |
| 127. | Tobacco giant accused of buying silence | | | For decades, the tobacco industry presented a united front, saying the same things on smoking and health, addiction, secondhand smoke, youth, tobacco marketing and promotion. Then Liggett broke ranks. To re-gain the united front, Philip Morris paid Ligget's legal bills, actually underwrote its competitor.
detnews.com |
| 131. | Smokefree Torun | | | Guide to smokefree travel and dining in Poland. Poland has been known for a lot of smoking but that's changing.
www.man.torun.pl |
| 132. | Tobacco: The Moral Issues | | | Short paper by Joseph Califano, secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1977-79, and now at Columbia University.
www.americapress.org |
| 134. | Still Waiting to Exhale | | | "Do Nothing" Republican leaders do their thing for Big Tobacco contributors. Incisive.
www.citizen.org |
| 138. | Tell the Truth! | | | If Tobacco Ads Really Told the Truth...
home.earthlink.net |
| 140. | CRP: Tobacco Tally | | | Center for Responsive Politics has "a snapshot of what Big Tobacco is contributing to Congress, and who's getting the money".
www.crp.org |
| 142. | Smokefree Indiana | | | Reducing Tobacco Use For a Healthier Indiana. From Ball State University. VERY well done site. Check out the "toolbox".
www.bsu.edu |
| 143. | Non Smokers' Movement of Australia | | | The Non Smokers' Movement of Australia is a lobby group against the tobacco industry, tobacco advertising, smoking in public places and all out-of-touch politicians who support this bogus industry.
www.nsma.org.au |
| 144. | American Medical Association - tobacco 101 | | | Basic facts on tobacco from the AMA. Quotes from the Minnesota trial are featured: "the tobacco industry in their own words says that tobacco is a drug." Factsheets.
www.ama-assn.org |
| 145. | Tobacco Reduction Strategy - Yukon - Home Page | | | "Our goals are: cessation to help Yukoners quit smoking or chewing tobacco, protecdtion to protect the health and rights of non-smokers, and prevention to help non-smokers, especially youth, to stay tobacco-free".
www.yukoncollege.yk.ca |
| 148. | Tobacco on Course to Become World's Leading Cause of Death | | | "With 1.1 billion smokers worldwide, tobacco use has reached the proportions of a global epidemic. By 2030, tobacco is expected to be the biggest cause of death worldwide, killing one out of every six people". National Geographic article.
www.ngnews.com |
| 149. | No Sale: 5. Legislative Recommendations | | | "Faced with the prospect that state laws may be strengthened, the tobacco industry's principal trade association, the Tobacco Institute, has initiated a campaign to avert effective reform by enacting its own weaker proposals, designed to give the false appearance of reform without effecting meaningful change."
sailor.lib.md.us |
| 150. | Health Science Analysis Project | | | Series of papers that consider the public health impact of various aspects of proposed federal tobacco legislation. From SCARCNet. Papers on disclosure of tobacco industry documents, tobacco control, price increases, regulation, tobacco industry tort liability, secondhand smoke, upcoming legislation.
scarcnet.org |
| 151. | Cigars: Coolish or Foolish? | | | "Movie stars and athletes smoke stogies on the cover of magazines. Bars and liquor stores sell fine cigars the way they do fine brandies. It's a symbol of the good life, '90s style. But riskwise, smoking cigars is not much different than smoking cigarettes. The real difference is in the type of cancer that cigar smokers develop -- head and neck instead of lung."
www.healthgate.com |
| 152. | Medical Expenditures Attributable To Cigarette Smoking, 1993 | | | Research performed at UC Berkeley and UC San Francisco. "The total cost of smoking in the United States amounted to an astounding $72.7 billion in 1993...more more than 11% of personal health care dollars are spent on care of people with smoking-related diseases"
www.eurekalert.org |
| 154. | The Y-1 Papers | | | A collection of internal tobacco industry documents that shows how they manipulated nicotine and other additives to make cigarettes as addictive as possible. As an industry research leader put it in 1980, the tobacco company "should learn to look at itself as a drug company, rather than a tobacco company."
www.gate.net |
| 155. | Additives in Cigarettes | | | So called 'additive-free' cigarettes aren't: chemicals are added to cigarettes, just not to the tobacco. Shows which products have which additives.
www.cctc.ca |
| 156. | National Cancer Institute: Lung Cancer Fact Sheet | | | Lung cancer kills more people than any other type of cancer in the United States. 90% of all lung cancer patients are dead within 5 years. 60% are dead within one year of diagnosis. The facts from NCI.
rex.nci.nih.gov |
| 157. | Tobacco Industry | | | Next time you're in a grocery store, convenience store, or gas station, look for the "It's the Law" and "We Card" signs; they were placed there by Big Tobacco. Why? This masterful expose from ANR explains.
www.no-smoke.org |
| 158. | Big Tobacco's Deadly Deceits | | | Article in Midwest Today, June/July 1996. "Cigarette Makers Have Worked Hard to Get Smokers Hooked".
researcher.sirs.com |
| 160. | SIRS reprints on tobacco | | | Nice source for articles on all topics, many hard to find, search for "tobacco".
researcher.sirs.com |
| 162. | Serious Money: The Top 100 Contributors | | | And the envelope please: the number one contributor to political parties in 1995-96 was...Philip Morris!! The largest tobacco company in the world. Could they have a reason to give all that money, or were they just throwing it away to be nice? You be the judge. This report lists all of the top 100 contributors; the others are interesting too; you'll see all the other big tobacco companies there too.
www.crp.org |
| 163. | Physician: Tobacco industry habitually spins research results | | | The tobacco industry systematically distorted research to confuse smokers about the product's dangers and prevent them from quitting. This according to John Holbrook, who has written the chapter on smoking in a widely used medical textbook.
www.naplesnews.com |
| 166. | Cigarette ingredients: Manufacturers acknowledge use of poisons | | | Among the cigarettes with arsenic, cadmium, ammonia, and formaldehyde were Winstons, made by R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Winstons are advertised as "no-additive" cigarettes in part of what the company has referred to as a "No Bull" campaign.
www2.startribune.com |
| 167. | Big Tobacco Rides East | | | "With a squinting cowboy, cute cigarette girls, an American allure, and a poorly funded opposition." Has Big Tobacco changed? "At the 1998 Hanoi Tet festival Philip Morris had a large tent with Marlboro horses to ride on for children, and young, nicely dressed cowboy girls offered single cigarettes free of charge to young boys."
www.motherjones.com:80 |
| 171. | Tobacco industry cynicism shown | | | What's behind tobacco industry "partnerships" to "fight youth smoking"? Industry internal memos have the answer. "As this memo clearly demonstrates, the motive is to head off further regulation, paint industry foes as extremists and foster good will by appearing to care."
www1.wvgazette.com |
| 174. | TCSG - Tobacco & The Elderly | | | The Center for Social Gerontology has papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons. "Today's generation of older Americans -- those persons born between 1900 and 1948 who are now aged 50 and over -- had smoking rates among the highest of any U.S. generation. In the mid-1960s, about 54% of adult males smoked" Check out in particular the Notes: excellent resources.
www.tcsg.org |
| 175. | Chestnet: Smoking and Health | | | A service of a professional organization of chest physicians; good summary of the medical facts of smoking.
www.chestnet.org |
| 176. | Tobacco Control in California: Who's Winning the War | | | Tobacco Use Behavior Research, Cancer Prevention and Control Program, University of California, San Diego. Overview, analysis, and evaluation of what causes smoking and what's effective in prevention and cessation. Outstanding.
ssdc.ucsd.edu |
| 178. | Kiss of Death: African Americans and the Tobacco Industry | | | "Young people in the African-American community are being targeted by the tobacco industry; their neighborhoods are filled with billboards showing smoking as pleasant and glamorous," says Leonard E. Lawrence, MD, president of the National Medical Association, which represents 17,000 minority physicians. Find out more.
www.udayton.edu |
| 181. | Partnership for a Drug-Free America: the tobacco connection | | | The Partnership loves to talk about illegal drugs. They are hard pressed to say anything about a drug that kills more Americans than all illegal drugs combined: tobacco. One reason may be, the Partnership has taken cash from Philp Morris and R. J. Reynolds.
www.fair.org |
| 183. | He wanted you to know | | | Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later it would kill him and leave his wife and children alone. If you think tobacco kills only "old people"...well, sure, it takes 20 years or more to kill ya, but most people smoking today started by age 14. Fine article from the St. Petersburg Times, Florida.
www.sptimes.com:80 |
| 184. | PBS: free speech for sale | | | Bill Moyers reports on how the tobacco industry plowed $40 million -- "the highest amount ever spent in the United States" on a single PR campaign that "distorted the facts and misled the public" in order to defeat tobacco legislation the industry didn't like.
www.pbs.org |
| 185. | PBS - Dr. David Kessler | | | Dr. Kessler responds to tobacco industry arguments, lays out the case for regulating tobacco products.
www.pbs.org |
| 186. | Tobacco Education using Theatre, Mime | | | Group that presents programs for K thru 12. Shows use theater skits, mime, circus arts, comedy, and music; this is no lecture. Main theme is choices.
www.Shows4allAges.com |
| 187. | Blue Cross Tobacco Home Page | | | Major tobacco reduction programs developed by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota, Minnesota Decides, and a lawsuit against the industry.
www.mnbluecrosstobacco.com |
| 188. | State of Health Products | | | Anti-tobacco ID tags, T-shirts, posters, buttons, magnets, wall signs, bookmarks, headbands, and the now-obligatory mouse pads.
www.buttout.com |
| 191. | JAMA July 19, 1995 | | | Entire issue devoted to analysis of the Brown and Williamson documents. What the industry knew and when they knew it, on: nicotine and addiction, secondhand smoke, and what their products do to their customers. Also how the tobacco industry used lawyers to control and coverup their "research". Also the Victor Crawford interview.
www.ama-assn.org |
| 193. | Snap's page on cigarettes | | | Information on smoking's effects from cancer to wrinkles; quitting methods; statistics.
nscp.snap.com |
| 195. | RRT: report on secondhand smoke | | | Nice college paper, fully footnoted, on secondhand smoke from a student at the Respiratory Therapy Program of Fanshawe College in Canada.
www.rtso.org |
| 198. | Passive Smoking | | | Report on the research; links to published studies.
www.theberries.ns.ca |
| 199. | Push-Poll | | | A fun way to intimidate your political enemies, if you have an unlimited budget
www.mojones.com |
| 200. | Quit Victoria | | | "Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Health questions answered; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
www.quit.org.au |
| 203. | The Opium Wars of the 21st Century: Tobacco and the Developing World | | | "The struggle against tobacco is not being won, it is being relocated. The tobacco wars of the next century will increasingly be waged among vulnerable populations ill equipped to cope with the slick marketing techniques and the dirty tricks perfected by the tobacco industry."
www.healthnet.org |
| 204. | India: A Doctor Takes on Big Tobacco | | | "It's a huge market in India and South East Asia. Tobacco companies are also targetting youth between 15-25. Two countries where it will zoom up is India and Indonesia," Dr Vaidya said.
www.corpwatch.org |
| 205. | Partnership for a Drug-Free America | | | History and analysis. Why doesn't the Partnership ever mention tobacco in its ads? "It would be suicidal if the Partnership took on the alcohol and tobacco industries. The Partnership is living off free advertising product and space, and the media and ad agencies live off alcohol and tobacco advertising."
earth.gowc.com |
| 206. | South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco Use | | | "Tobacco use is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use. More people die from tobacco than from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal drugs combined." Concise, well written, summary of the causes and effects of tobacco use.
www.scprevents.org |
| 208. | Secret Tobacco Documents | | | from the Tobacco BBS, a great collection of links to (formerly) secret tobacco industry documents. What the industry says in private continues to be a highly revealing guide to how smoking spreads across the globe.
www.tobacco.org |
| 210. | Smoke Free World | | | Worldwide guide to smokefree entertainment, dining, travel and business. Well organized!
www.smokefreeworld.com |
| 211. | Bud Ellis's Home Page | | | A web page in the memory of Bud Ellis who died August 23, 1998. Bud speaks simply and plainly about his life, as he was nearing its end. Also good resources on quitting.
www.geocities.com |
| 213. | Katlyn's Butt-head Page | | | "I am 11 years old and my mother has emphysema from smoking. Please listen to me - what it's like to have a sick Mom". A story about tobacco victims who don't smoke.
www.geocities.com |
| 215. | Caring for the customer | | | Article from New Scientist magazine. Cigarette manufacturers abandoned dozens of technologies that could have reduced the death toll from their products.
www.newscientist.com |
| 218. | Advertising and Promoting U.S. Cigarettes in Selected Asian Countries | | | A look at global smoking promotional activities by U.S. tobacco companies; some activities said to be illegal, and some said to target nonsmokers and children. "James Coburn, Pierce Brosnan, and Robert Wagner starred in a series of TV commercials for Philip Morris' Lark brand Cigarettes in Japan."
www.gwjapan.com |
| 219. | Cigarette Advertising | | | Doctors like cigarettes! That and other health claims the industry made in its ads of the 1940's and 1950's.
www.library.uiuc.edu |
| 220. | FTC Cigarette Testing | | | 1997 RFC from the FTC. FTC tar and nicotine numbers are inaccurate, for reasons they outline. The smoker actually inhales substantially more tar and nicotine than the numbers state.
www.health.org |
| 221. | NCADI- "Quick Docs" on Tobacco | | | The National Clearninghouse and Alcohol and Drug Information has a well organized site with good info and links on tobacco, cigarettes, spit tobacco, quitting, and prevention.
www.health.org |
| 222. | IIRC: Tobacco Investment | | | "The one place institutional investors, corporate executives, public health officials and other interested parties can go to get comprehensive, up-to-date, impartial information on the tobacco investment debate." Covers recent industry history, shareholder resolutions, legal situations, advertising and promotion of tobacco.
www.irrc.org |
| 226. | Secrets of BAT Industries | | | "Inside the restricted laboratory compound on the south coast of England, five senior scientists for BAT Industries, the world's second-biggest cigarette maker, were devising ways to make it harder for people to quit smoking..."
tc.bmjjournals.com |
| 228. | 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.
tc.bmjjournals.com |
| 231. | Prevention Dollars at Work | | | Shows how much diseases related to alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs cost. All illicit drugs combined (age<35): about a billion bucks a year in medical costs. Tobacco: about fifteen billion bucks. Any questions?
p2001.health.org |
| 235. | CJR - Lessons of the Sixty Minutes Cave-In | | | "Tobacco companies, when faced with damaging exposure, are increasingly resorting to expensive, intimidating, take-no-prisoners litigation to circumvent the First Amendment, strong-arm the press, silence witnesses, and keep important facts from coming to the public's attention".
www.cjr.org |
| 236. | Galen II tobacco resources | | | UCSF university library section on tobacco, nicotine, smoking, and law, mass media, and archives. Extensive set of publications, analysis, and links.
www.library.ucsf.edu |
| 237. | Koop-Kessler report on tobacco policy and public health. | | | Facts, findings, and recommendations on regulatory policy, research policty, public education, youth and tobacco, performance objectives, current users of tobacco products, secondhand smoke, and future of the tobacco industry and of tobacco control efforts.
www.tobacco.neu.edu |
| 239. | HoltzReport: Tobacco Control | | | Index of and links to tobacco control stories and research by independent journalist Andrew Holtz, former CNN Medical Correspondent and Kaiser Family Foundation Media Fellow. Analysis of the Truth campaign in Florida.
nasw.org |
| 240. | Conscientious Consuming Tobacco Company Boycott | | | Conscientious Consuming is the process of evaluating the conduct and activities of product manufacturers when purchasing consumer products. This action involves the boycott of non-tobacco products of tobacco companies.
www.conscientiousconsuming.com |
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