ASAP911Tobacco

Individual advocate in Kentucky.
http://asap911tobacco.com

Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide

A comprehensive guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate by Dr. Larry Breed, DrPH covers dozens of topics and outlines activism responses to tobacco, with an emphasis on knowledge before action.
http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/lbguide.html

RI Tobacco Control Network

The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training.
http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/

INFACT

National grassroots organization founded in 1977, best known for its successful Nestle and GE boycott campaigns. Features information on the tobacco industry, explodes the myths pushed by tobacco industry PR (e.g. "smoking is an adult custom"), and invit
http://www.infact.org

ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health

Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos.
http://www.ash.org.uk/

Making it UNCOOL

Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/1999/9903.worth.cigs.html

Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada

Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada.
http://www.smoke-free.ca/

International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT)

Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
http://www.inwat.org/

Virginia GASP home page

Factsheets on tobacco and the tobacco industry developed by Virginia GASP. Extensive summary of tobacco industry misconduct.
http://www.gasp.org/#factsheets

The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues

Award-winning site examines non-health related tobacco industry fraud and false claims issues, presenting authentic tobacco company documents to illustrate tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and claims. Features grassroots programs and inter
http://www.rxshuster.org/

ASH Australia

Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places.
http://www.ashaust.org.au/

Tobacco Post - Canada's best anti-tobacco site

Canadian coverage of tobacco wars. Covers friends and opponents of the industry in Canada.
http://healthwatcher.net/nopatsy.html

Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization

Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco.
http://nosmoking.ws/

World No Tobacco Day Ecards

Send an ecard to encourage someone you know to take action against tobacco use.
http://www.wntd.com/ecards/index.htm

Get Outraged

"Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary citizens get invol
http://www.getoutraged.com/

American Lung Association Action Network

How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy.
http://lungaction.org/

Prescription for Change

"To help a persistent cough, go to aisle 8. To get a persistent cough, go to aisle 14" Advocacy to urge pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products.
http://www.rxforchange.org/

NO PATSY Homepage - National Organization of People Attacking Tobacco Sales to Youth

Canada's Tobacco Activist Headquarters - Top stories from NO PATSY - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars, the battles, the lawsuits, the government actions.
http://www.healthwatcher.net/index-2new.html

Tobacco Control

Research paper. Extensive and fully documented look at Arizona's Proposition 200. Concludes: "health advocates in Arizona successfully fought tobacco industry attempts to divert the health education funds and pass preemptive legislation. But the executiv
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/2/141

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!"
http://www.polarisinc.com/tobacco/

Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000

Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
http://medicolegal.tripod.com/alltcases.htm

Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles

Charts the dramatic and complex history of tobacco politics in California over the past quarter century. By Stan Glantz and Edith Balbach.
http://www.ucpress.edu/tobaccowar/

MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco

Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, and medical costs due to smoking.
http://www.mascotcoalition.org/

Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz

Covers the Brown and Williamson papers, how they got to Glantz, what we've learned from them about the tobacco industry, how the industry tried to intimidate Glantz and UCSF to suppress them and why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/glantz.html

Tobacco To 21

Ohio-based organization; advocates making 21 the minimum age to buy tobacco. Describes tobacco history; industry promotion; tobacco and health; addiction; costs of tobacco use; use by children; and public policy.
http://www.tobacco21.org/

National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH)

Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada.
http://www.ncth.ca

Nicotine Victims

Focus is on tobacco product addiction.
http://www.nicotinevictims.com

Join the Joe Chemo Campaign!

Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event.
http://www.joechemo.org/campaign.htm

Wallgreens.Com

A Chicago teen fights to get Walgreens, the nation's largest pharmacy, to stop selling tobacco products.
http://www.Wallgreens.com/

Connecticut Stop Tobacco-Save Kids

Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less.
http://www.ctstoptobacco-savekids.com/

Advocating for the Public's Health

Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care.
http://www.commed.uchc.edu/healthservices/mediaadvoc/default.htm

Health Canada: Tobacco

Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations.
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/tobacco.htm

Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D.

Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider'
http://www.jeffreywigand.com/

GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network

A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver.
http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/

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.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/4/393

Tobacco Money in Politics: Over $25 million

Common cause study.
http://www.commoncause.org/publications/051397_sdy.htm

Smokinghurts.com

Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research.
http://www.smokinghurts.com/

Big Tobacco Sucks

Campaign against Transnational Tobacco mobilizes students to use the investment power of their universities to challenge the global tobacco industry's violation of human rights, public health, and the environment; site requires Flash.
http://www.bigtobaccosucks.org/

Licensed to Kill, Inc.

Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money.
http://www.licensedtokill.biz/

Students Oppose Smoking

Organization founded by student smokers and non-smokers dedicated to easing the problem of student tobacco use in Montgomery County, Maryland.
http://www.sosnow.org/

Public Citizen: Tobacco

Amicus briefs, litigation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation.
http://www.citizen.org/litigation/briefs/Tobacco/index.cfm

Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health

Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/

Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page

Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco.
http://sklaroff.globalink.org/homepage-tobacco.html

PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign

Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest.
http://www.pirg.org/consumer/tobacco/index.htm

International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco

News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials.
http://www.ingcat.org/

Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry

Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulati
http://www.kcstar.com/item/pages/fyi.pat,fyi/30da14cb.508,.html

Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board

Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco.
http://www.lcltfb.org/tobacco/default.html

SIF Research: Tobacco's Changing Context

Explores the different approaches that shareholders can take in formulating a response to tobacco, such as divestment, modification of investments and shareholder resolutions. A sampling of institutions, including pension funds, universities, insurance co
http://www.socialinvest.org/areas/research/tobacco/

A Smokefree World

Personal page of Robert Starkey.
http://www.geocities.com/smokefree1/

Action In The War Against Big Tobacco

Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do.
http://www.cleanlungs.com/action/index.html

Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation

ASH publication.
http://ash.org/papers/h201.htm

Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively

Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world.
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/qofm/0202a.html

Cigarette Litter

Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns.
http://www.cigarettelitter.org/

Tobacco Survivors United

A network of survivors, families, and friends of men and women who have overcome the damanges of tobacco products; informs the public and advocates for a smokefree society.
http://www.tobaccosurvivorsunited.org/

Mobilizing the Gay and Lesbian Community Against Tobacco

Short item on community-based organization against tobacco promotion.
http://www.communityfocus.org/newsletter.html#article2

Philip Morris Info Sheet

From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus.
http://www.stanford.edu/group/SICD/PhilipMorris/pmorris.html

NYPIRG: Tobacco

Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do.
http://www.nypirg.org/health/tobacco/

Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco

Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canda with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and
http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/

NAAAPI: Tobacco Control Advocacy

The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI) has worked since 1990 to reduce the effects that the tobacco industry has had on the African American community and communities of color.
http://www.naaapi.org/tobacco/default.asp

Altria Means Tobacco

Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria.
http://www.altriameanstobacco.com/

Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change

Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates.
http://www.thepraxisproject.org/tools/advocacy_how_to_tobacco.pdf

MASSPIRG: Tough On Tobacco

Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives.
http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=8330&id3=MA&

Tobacco Free U

Works on college campuses to prevent starting, promote quitting, prevent exposure to secondhand smoke, and utlimately create tobacco-free campuses across the nation.
http://www.tobaccofreeu.org/

New York State College Alliance Against Tobacco

Network of student coalitions at colleges and universities throughout New York State educating and advocating against tobacco and for smokefree dorms, buildings, and events.
http://www.nyscaat.org/

Grim Reaper Society/Association des Faucheuses

An accounting of Tobacco-related deaths, highlighted by the figure of death: the Grim Reaper.
http://www.grimreaper.org/

Don't Pardon Big Tobacco

Allows anyone concerned about the tobacco industry's practice of marketing to kids to send an instant fax to President Bush telling him not to weaken the US government's lawsuit against tobacco companies.
http://tfk.grassroots.com/doj/

Kids Before Profits

Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco.
http://tfk.grassroots.com/tfk_candidateEd/CandidateEd_Home_NEW/

Philip Morris Can't Hide

Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action.
http://tfk.grassroots.com/pmch/

Motherjones.com - See For Yourself: The Spiked PSA

A Quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California until it was pulled by the governor.
http://www.motherjones.com/news/special_reports/1996/05/qt2.html

British Medical Journal - Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies

The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has developed strategy for dealing with the tobacco industry and its allies by using their stock to challenge issues through shareholder resolutions.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/375

Tobacco Control Supersite

Addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control with particular relevance to Australia.
http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/

Tarbox, Barb

Victim of smoking-related cancer. Led crusade across Canada to stop children from starting to smoke. Includes story, short commercials she recorded, transcripts of those commercials, and donation information.
http://tobacco.aadac.com/media_campaigns/barb_tarbox/

Smokefree.net

A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces.
http://www.smokefree.net/

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Working to expose Big Tobacco's lies, the Campaign reveals the truth about the deadly effects of smoking, tobacco's corporate public relations campaigns to convince the public that it is a reformed industry, and the advertising and marketing tactics tobac
http://tobaccofreekids.org/

Fight With Fact

Wisconsin effort uses fact in the fight against Big Tobacco.
http://www.fightwithfact.com/

WorkSmokefree.com

Advocates for smokefree workplaces in Oregon.
http://worksmokefree.com/

Taking Down the Marlboro Man

Extended news article covers Infact activism and its connection to the FTCC.
http://www.boston.com/ae/media/articles/2003/12/23/taking_down_the_malboro_man/

Michigan Smoke-Free Dining Act Petition Drive

Lets you support smokefree restaurants in the state of Michigan.
http://www.smokefreediningpetition.com

ASTHO - Tobacco Prevention and Control

Programs of the U.S. Association of State and Territorial Health Officials to raise the visibility of tobacco prevention and control issues among state health officials and their senior staff.
http://www.astho.org/?template=state_tobacco.html

Tough on Drugs -- Weak on Tobacco

Article in medical journal outlines how and why the government of Australia does little about tobacco, and government funding for tobacco control is small compared to government funding of other public health issues.
http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/172_12_190600/chapman/chapman.html

StatesOnTheTake.com

Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry.
http://www.statesonthetake.com/

Give Tobacco The Boot!

Aims to get tobacco out of rodeos; opposes deals made by the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association for tobacco sponsorship of rodeos.
http://www.givetobaccotheboot.org

Action on Smoking and Health - Canada

Western Canada's leading health organization devoted solely to tobacco control and prevention.
http://www.ash.ca/

Anti-Smoke Japan

English part of site examines cigarette advertising, tobacco industry influence, and smoking in Japan.
http://www.anti-smoke-jp.com/keneneg.html

Consumer Voice: Tobacco

Consumer awareness magazine in India covers tobacco news, effects of tobacco use, spit tobacco, and tobacco advertising and promotional activities in India.
http://www.consumer-voice.org/tobacco/tobacco1.htm

EMRO Tobacco Free Initiative Homepage

World Health Organization initiative on tobacco in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMRO) provides posters and factsheets on smoking in English and Arabic, Islamic rules and Christian views on smoking.
http://www.emro.who.int/tfi/wntd2001/

European Network for Smoking Prevention

ENSP is a European network for smoking prevention active in tobacco contol in Europe.
http://www.ensp.org/

Feel Free to Say No

EU smokefree campaign provides materials in English, French, Italian, Dutch, Portugese, Swedish, Finnish, Danish, German, Greek, and Castellano languages.
http://www.feel-free.info/

Globalization of Tobacco Industry Tactics as Exemplified in Switzerland

Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Switzerland.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_8734.htm

Health Promotion: Global Perspectives

Sep/Oct 200 issue of American Journal of Health Promotion devoted to tobacco control; includes perspectives from the UK, South Africa, Romania, Argentina, and globally.
http://www.healthpromotionjournal.com/publications/global/2000-09/index.htm

The Syrian Center For Tobacco Studies

Tobacco prevention and control information in Syria
http://www.scts-sy.org/

Taking on Tobacco Imperialism

Interviews with advocates on industry activity in Canada, Hong Kong, Poland, and Thailand.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/mm0797.06.html

Tobacco Free Initiative

World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/

Tobacco Free Initiative Pakistan

Initiative sponsored by the Network for Consumer Protection in Pakistan to mount resistance to the tobacco industry, to educate about tobacco use, and to pressure the government to introduce controls on tobacco sale and promotion.
http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/EMROleads-Pakistan.htm

Tobacco Industry Activity in the Middle East

Report from the WHO Regional office for the Eastern Mediterranean Region documents tobacco industry front groups, lobbying, PR campaigns, spying on tobacco control organizations, and delaying or blocking anti-tobacco measures in the region.
http://www.emro.who.int/TFI/VOICE%20OF%20TRUTH.pdf

Emerging Tobacco Hazards in China

In Chinese and English.
http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/tobacco/

Tobacco and the European Union

ASH-UK factsheet presents information about smoking prevalence, tobacco-related deaths, and tobacco control policies.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact20.html

AntiSmokingAds.org

Presents Dr. Connie Pechmann's smoking-related research.
http://www.antismokingads.org/

Smoking and Islam

Asserts that Islam forbids smoking.
http://www.geocities.com/IslamAwareness/Smoking/