Resources
If you really want to protect children from the tobacco companies, you'll need to do research. It's really not that bad! Once you get started, it's hard to stop. The links we listed below will make it easy for you.You'll be able to get all the information you need. Before you know it, you'll be making changes in your community!
1-888-FDA-4-KIDS
Call this number to request information or to report a violation of the FDA's tobacco regulations. (Call this number if you see someone selling a tobacco product to a minor)
Smoking news and documents
2013 H Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006; phone (202) 659-4310
American Cancer Society
Cancer information, news, and research
1599 Clifton Road, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30329; 1-800-ACS-2345
American Cancer Society, New Jersey Division, Inc.
2600 U.S. Highway 1, Box 6001; North Brunswick, NJ 08902; phone: 908-297-8000
American Heart Association New Jersey Affiliate
Headquarters Office, 2550 Rt.1; North Brunswick, NJ 08902
908-821-2610 ; Fax : 908-821-2736
American Lung Association of Colorado
Big Tobacco's Seldom Told Plan for Our Children
Pictures and Information on Self-Service Displays
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Legislation and advocacy, educational programs, information and resources
Suite J, 2530 San Pablo Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94702; phone: (510) 841-3032
The BADvertising Institute
Ideas for projects, list of other sites, info, examples of counter-advertising, slide show and poster order form.
Tobacco Facts
Tips on keeping kids smokefree; "Puke Page" - really gross pictures of what happens to you when you smoke; facts
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
1707 L. Street, NW, Suite 800, Washington, DC 20036; phone:
1-800-284-KIDS Great site for advocates. Includes: factsheets, press releases, research, and resources
Smoking and health database, Surgeon General's Reports, current tobacco related events.
"Cigarette Wars: Smoke, Lies and Compromise"
by the Phildadelphia Inquirer; A comprehensive look at the tobacco industry.
Community Partners
For community coalition building, thoughts on membership and recruitment.
Consumer Information Center
Write for a guide to quitting smoking.
P.O. Box 100, Pueblo, CO 81002
Cigarette Anyone?
Touching stories written by people with emphysema.
Globalink
is an international tobacco control electronic network available through the Web. It's free, but you need to become a member to participate.
Infact Campaign Headquarters
Great resource for ideas on advocacy. Boston, MA 02113, Tel: 617-742-4583
Fax: 617-367-0191
Kickbutt.Org
Kickbutt.org is a web site developed by Washington DOC (Doctors Ought to Care) on behalf of the tobacco control community. Their goal is link different tobacco control groups, improve access to vital information, and provide communities with the necessary tools to work for change. As Service of Washington DOC, P.O. Box 20065, Seattle, WA 98102-1065 fax 206-326-2895
Massachusetts Tobacco Control
The Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (MTCP) is a statewide government program dedicated to addressing the severe health risks associated with tobacco use.
National Health Information Clearinghouse
P.O. Box 1133, Washington, DC 20018
1-800-336-4797
NJ GASP (Group Against Smoking Pollution)
P.O. Box 670, Summit, NJ 07902-0670
email: njgasp@worldnet.att.net
GASP can supply you with a lot of information on Environmental Tobacco Smoke. If you want to help establishments go "Smokefree" this is a good place to start. Ask for their "Smokerfree Dining is Best" brochure.
The Nicotine and Tobacco Network
The Arizona Program for nicotine and tobacco research. Topics include: prevention, cessation, ETS, cigar and pipe smoke, and tobacco research.
No Smokers
It is the purpose of this site to inform people of the dangers of smoking and try to point them in the right direction to get help in their endeavor to quit.
Office on Smoking and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mailstop K-50, 4770 Buford Highway, N.E., Atlanta, GA 30341-3724 1-800-CDC-1311 (copies of action guide on environmental smoke) (404) 488-5705
On Health
Articles on many tobacco related topics; quitting, smoking in the movies, teen smoking, tobacco victims, etc.
"Secondhand Smoke and Community Action" by Walt Bilofsky
"Secondhand Smoke...What You Can Do...EPA
SGR4Kids
The Surgeon General's Report for Kids. This is a great on-line smoke-free magazine for kids.
STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco)
STAT is a national organization which was founded in 1985. Its mission is to end childhood and teenage addiction to tobacco
STIC
STIC was created as a service to the attorneys general and the public to aide them in keeping
abreast of important legal actions. Includes: resource links, newslinks key litigation documents from historic legal actions by state.
Technical Information Center Office on Smoking and Health
5600 Fishers Lane, Room 1-16, Rockville, MD 20857
This is an excellent site!! It shows how smoking is robbing teens of their looks, their health and their lives.
Tobacco or Health
World Health Organization
Guidelines
for controlling and monitoring the tobacco epidemic. Global tobacco control.
Global links.
Tobacco
Scam
How Big Tobacco Abuses the restaurant industry.
UCSF website exposes the tobacco industry's campaign to "Use and
Abuse" the hospitality industry.
History of the tobacco industry from 6000 B.C. to the present.
Tobacco BBS (Bulletin Board System)
An on-line tobacco news service which also provides an index of tobacco-related Internet sites.
Tobacco Control Archives
Galen II Archives - largest collection of industry documents on the Internet.
How to Search for Tobacco Documents
Tobacco Industry Information Center
An excellent source of documents and transcripts.
Tobacco Industry Political Influence and Tobacco Policy Making in New York 1983-1999 by Joanna Dearlove, BA Stanton A. Glantz, PhD Institute for Health Policy Studies School of Medicine University of California.
Truth
Teens, if you want to learn the truth about the tobacco industry,
take a look at this site.
U.S. Environmental
Protection AgencyIndoor Air Quality Information Clearinghouse
P.O.
Box 37133, Washington, DC 20013-7133 1-800-438-4318
Information
about environmental tobacco smoke.
The QuitNet
Massachusettes Tobacco Control Program
For up to date news on tobacco issues and help in quitting smoking
Youth Media Network
provides
information about tobacco use--both smoking and chewing--for youth.