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Tobacco Research

Tobacco Factfile view more info comment email item
    This searchable and browsable international database provides statistics and data about tobacco from peer-reviewed journals, scientific publications and monographs, and governmental reports. Topics include economics, health, policy, the tobacco industry, and regional statistics. Data can be downloaded into a citation manager package such as Reference Manager or ProCite. Also available in French, German, and Spanish. From the Tobacco Control Resource Centre, British Medical Association.
URL: http://www.tobaccofactfile.org/

 

The Tobacco Atlas view more info comment email item
    This 2002 publication provides an overview of tobacco consumption and promotion around the world. Includes facts and statistics on topics such as a history of tobacco usage, male and female smoking, health risks, passive smoking and children, deaths, costs to the economy and to smokers, tobacco manufacturing and companies, advertising, research, legislation limiting smoking areas, litigation, and more. From the World Health Organization (WHO).
URL: http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/

 

Tobacco Industry Documents view more info comment email item
    Tens of thousands of pages of tobacco industry documents put on the Internet by a congressional committee, ending the tobacco industry's decades-long battle to keep the papers secret. Includes related links. From the Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/industrydocs/

 

TOBACCOpedia: the online tobacco encyclopedia view more info comment email item
    A searchable megasite of links to information about tobacco. As well as the usual smoking and health links it includes sections on the art, history, and religion of tobacco; economics and demographics of tobacco production and use; environmental issues; and tobacco advertising and promotion.
URL: http://tobaccopedia.org/

 

World No Tobacco Day view more info comment email item
    Information about this awareness event, "celebrated around the world every year on May 31. ... [It] informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies" and other tobacco topics. Find publications and other material related to the current year's theme and past World Tobacco Days back to 2000. Available in several languages. From the Tobacco Free Initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO).
URL: http://www.who.int/tobacco/communications/events/wntd/2007/en/

 

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) view more info comment email item
    Contains "more than 6 million documents [from 1950 through the present] related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products." Searchable by author, title, date, and named persons. Full text and subjects not searchable. From the University of California , San Francisco.
URL: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/

 

The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General view more info comment email item
This scientific report "concludes that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke. Nonsmokers exposed to secondhand smoke at home or work increase their risk of developing heart disease by 25 to 30 percent and lung cancer by 20 to 30 percent." Includes the full report, a summary, press releases, and links to related fact sheets and sites. From the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
URL: http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke/

Tobacco.org view more info comment email item
This site collects tobacco related news from around the world. Browsable by subject, geographic area, lawsuit, and organization. Updated daily. See "History" for a tobacco timeline.
URL: http://www.tobacco.org/

smokefree.gov view more info comment email item
This site is "intended to help you or someone you care about quit smoking." The site provides access to "an online step-by-step cessation guide, local and state telephone quitlines, NCI's national telephone quitline, NCI's instant messaging service, [and] publications, which may be downloaded, printed, or ordered." From the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Office on Smoking and Health, and the American Cancer Society.
URL: http://smokefree.gov

 

CDC's TIPS view more info comment email item
The Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) has more than 27 million pages of tobacco industry documents made public by state lawsuits, now searchable full-text in several databases. Also included are Surgeon Generals' Reports, tobacco-related news, research reports, educational materials, guides on how to quit smoking cigarettes, and links to organizations. Tobacco Control Highlights displays statistics selected by state. TIPS 4 Kids and TIPS 4 Teens provide facts, videos, booklets, artwork, magazines, and links. The Smoking and Health Database and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) site are also searchable from TIPS.
URL: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/

Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) view more info comment email item
Information on common sources and health effects of indoor air pollution in homes, schools, and offices. Special emphasis on asthma, radon, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS)/secondhand smoke (SHS), and mold; the site is searchable and provides hotlines and links for each topic. Some information is also available in Spanish. From the Environmental Protection Agency.
URL: http://www.epa.gov/iaq/

 

American Lung Association (ALA) view more info comment email item
The American Lung Association "fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health." The site contains information on lung diseases, treatment options, quitting smoking, air quality, and the human respiratory system. Includes a list of local chapters. Also available in Spanish. 
URL: http://www.lungusa.org/

 Impact of a Smoking Ban on Restaurant and Bar Revenues --- El Paso , Texas , 2002 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5307a2.htm

 

D.C. Smoking Ban Approved Mayor Weighs Veto Despite 11-1 Council Vote
Thursday, January 5, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/04/AR2006010401310.htm

 

 NYC Smoking Ban Debuts: Smoking Ban Affects Bars, Nightclubs NEW YORK , March 30, 2003

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/03/29/national/main546751.shtml  

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/byauthor/55837      Smoking ban in bars not big drag so far

http://www.freechicago.org/freechicago/index.html Working to Stop the Smoking Ban in Chicago

http://www.heartland.org/Article.cfm?artId=11386 Talking Points on the Proposed Chicago Smoking Ban

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4190/is_20060707/ai_n16529988  How did casinos gain exemption from             Colorado's smoking ban?   Colorado Springs Business Journal

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/9459394/detail.html?taf=den   "Colorado Smoking Ban Now In Effect - Denver News Story - KMGH Denver"

http://www.gazette.com/onset?id=19674&template=article.html "Bars Rebel Against Smoking Ban"

http://www.gazette.com/onset?id=19674&template=article.html

Bars rebel against smoking ban

 

http://www.smokinglobby.com/smoking-ban-news/group-says-colorado-smoking-ban-having-negative-economic-consequences/

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/analysis.aspx?id=19862

http://www.tobacco.org/news/262477.html

http://www.stopthebans.com/

 

 

 

 

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