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UnholySmoke offers the following
information pages to its visitors and members. Inform yourself
and others!
NEWS AND STATISTICS
Tobacco.org is a Constantly updated news database of all
smoking/tobacco related articles. Their news database contains
daily summaries of every news article concerning tobacco and
goes back several years containing over 100,000 news articles
about tobacco issues. It is very easy to search. Go to
http://www.tobacco.org/
TobaccoWiki is a project of the Center for Media and Democracy
in Madison, Wisconsin and the American Legacy Foundation. The
TobaccoWiki portal page can be assessed at
www.tobaccowiki.org
Tobacco Control, an international peer-reviewed journal for
health professionals and others in tobacco control has online
articles and abstracts at
http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com
The University of Wisconsin's Center for Tobacco Research and
Intervention provides journal articles in several subject areas.
Click here to visit their site.
Tobacco ads and old commercials from The University of
California, San Francisco Tobacco Control Archives Multimedia
Collection. This site contains audiotapes and videotapes related
to the advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and
scientific research of tobacco products as well as materials
gathered and produced by tobacco control advocates. Go to
http://www.archive.org/details/tobaccoarchives
Fact Sheets from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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Click here
Smokers have disproportionately more abortions, about 80% more,
see references
here.
Smokers also do disproportionately more drug abuse and
alcoholism, some 90%. See references
here and
here.
ORGANIZATIONS
Foundation for a Smokefree America is a nonprofit organization
started founded by Patrick Reynolds (grandson of RJ Reynolds).
It is the mission of Patrick Reynolds to motivate youth to
stay tobacco free, and to empower smokers to quit successfully.
Go to
http://www.anti-smoking.org
Smokefree.gov provides free, accurate, evidence-based
information and professional assistance to help support the
immediate and long-term needs of people trying to quit smoking.
Go to:
http://www.smokefree.gov
The counterpoint: The Citizens’ Freedom Alliance, Inc. runs a
website called The Smokers Club that has many counter examples
claiming to deny the dangers of smoking and its burdens on
society. The homepage is
http://www.smokersclub.com
RESOURCES FOR HEALTH CARE AND YOUTH WORKERS
Doctors Implementing Smoking Cessation – Brief Guidelines
Nurses Implementing Smoking Cessation – Brief Guidelines
The Nurse's role in tobacco cessation
Anti-marketing messages for use by teachers
Adolescent smoking statistics from the American Lung Association
THE COST OF TOBACCO
State Rankings on Cigarette Price, Tax, and Smoking-Attributable
Costs (PDF)
GOVERNMENT POLICY
State tobacco control laws
U.S. vs. Philip Morris, provided by the Department of Justice
According to the American Lung Association, the “Federal
Government Fails To Regulate Tobacco And Protect Public Health”
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Click here
The American Heart Association writes on “Why FDA Regulation is
Important for State Tobacco Control Efforts” here in this Word
document: -
Click here
ONLINE BOOKS AND ARTICLES
The Ethics of Smoking by Robert E. Goodin
Morality and Smoking by Tibor Machan
Smoke : A Global History of Smoking , by Sander Lawrence Gilman
(2004), 424 pages.
Available online as a full-text scan of the book by clicking
here.
Tobacco Papers (1998-2008) by K.H. GINZEL, MD
What's in a cigarette?
After Some 100 Million Deaths -- What's Next? Click
here
and
here.
Can Children Stop Big Tobacco? - A School Project
Workplaces and Public Places Must be Made Smoke-free
Protein, An Alternative Tobacco Crop
Tobacco Industry Conduct: An Analysis of Selected Issues 13.1
Tobacco Products Litigation Reporter 4.1, 1998
Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Update 1998 - 2005.
Non-Smokers Are Victims of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Written
testimony, Senate Hearing on Environmental Tobacco Smoke, April
1, 1998. Included in TOBACCO NEWS - APRIL 2001
Why do you smoke?
The Future of Tobacco, British Medical Journal, PERSONAL VIEWS.
BMJ 2005;331:972 (22 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7522.972
Regulation of Tobacco Products. Memorandum submitted to (1) the
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions for
the FDA Senate hearing, August 1, 2007, and to (2) the US House
Energy Subcommittee on Health for their hearing, March 4, 2008
Place nicotine under the Controlled Substances Act From
SourceWatch, a project of the Center for Media & Democracy
K.H.
Ginzel papers on Anne Donley's Virginia Gasp website