| 3. | You've Come a Long Way...or Have You? | | | From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing.
www.acsh.org |
| 9. | Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy | | | New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
www.chem-tox.com |
| 13. | Smoking and Reproduction | | | ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and long-term growth.
www.ash.org.uk |
| 15. | Women and Tobacco | | | WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
tobacco.who.int |
| 20. | Smoking is a Women's Issue | | | Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.
tobaccofreekids.org |
| 27. | Girls and Tobacco | | | Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
tobaccofreekids.org |
| 30. | Virginia SLAM! | | | Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry out of music.
www.drdonnica.com |
| 35. | Sluts against Butts | | | Features women bent on holding the tobacco companies responsible.
www.slutsagainstbutts.com |
| 36. | Women and Smoking | | | Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.
www.womenandsmoking.com |
| 37. | Independence From Smoking | | | National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking.
www.4woman.gov |
| 42. | Torches of Freedom | | | Themes of Women's Liberation in American Cigarette Advertising; a paper presented at the Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association Convention. In PDF.
www.rtvf.unt.edu |
| 44. | Women and Smoking | | | American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones.
women.americanlegacy.org |
| 45. | Smoking: A Guide for Teens | | | Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
www.youngwomenshealth.org |
| 46. | Cigarettes | | | Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.
wcn.org |
| 49. | This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care? | | | Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups.
www.washingtonpost.com |
| 56. | Women and Smoking | | | A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links.
www.cdc.gov |
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