Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
U.S. legal-action antismoking organization. Resources include information on health effects, quitting, advocacy programs and techniques, smoking statistics, and U.S. antismoking gr…
Big Tobacco Looks for a Clean Getaway
Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to the 1997 proposed deal with the tobacco industry.
eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction
Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
GLOBALink: Secret Documents from the Minnesota Depository
Papers reviewing industry internal documents: Tobacco industry campaign against advertising bans in the 1980's; Industry recruitment of scientific experts; industry attitudes revea…
Go Smokefree! Health Canada
Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm associated with smoking and provides a rich set of resources for this: information, h…
Health Effects of Tobacco and Secondhand Smoke
Factsheets on tobacco, secondhand smoke, the tobacco industry, and cigarette sales.
How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works
Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.
India Tobacco News Extracts
Cancer Patients Aid Association hosts news stories on tobacco in India.
Information on Drugs of Abuse: Nicotine
Resources on nicotine addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
It's Your Life
Health promotion pamphlet created by Monash University medical students uses humor with a spoof TV game show approach to smoking.
Leave The Pack Behind
A campus smoking program which provides information for smokers and non-smokers.
MEDLINE: Tobacco Uue - Smoking and Spit Tobacco
Topic in MEDLINE's medical encyclopedia covers effects, chemical componenents, diseases caused, quitting tobacco, with 4 poster-quality illustrations.
MEDLINEplus: Smoking
Medical emphasis; factsheets, clinical trials, prevention/screening, news, organizations, statistics, particular populations.
Men and smoking
Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction…
Nicotine Addiction to Disease: Growing Up With the Tobacco Industry
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute materials covers history and consequences of tobacco use.
NIDA Research Report - Nicotine Addiction
National Institute on drug abuse report on nicotine covers addiction, extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine works, effects of long-term nicotine exposure, treatment of nic…
Oregon Public Health Services
Tobacco Prevention and Education Program provides information on the program, key partners, the science behind it, legislation and policy initiatives, the secrets, the tools, quitt…
Principal Health News
Articles and news summaries on tobacco, cigarettes, spit tobacco, quitting, and secondhand smoke.
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