American Lung Association: Tobacco - Fact sheets on quitting smoking, smoking and women, upcoming legislation, smoking and teens and secondhand smoke.
American Lung Association - The American Lung Association has been fighting lung disease for more than 90 years, and is a leader in tobacco education and tobacco control. Their website has information on tobacco control, quitting smoking, community involvement, and legislative activities.
Conscientious Consuming Tobacco Company Boycott - Conscientious Consuming is evaluating the conduct and activities of product manufacturers when purchasing consumer products. This action involves the boycott of non-tobacco products of tobacco companies.
Chestnet: Smoking and Health - A service by a professional organization of chest physicians; medical facts of smoking; public health scenario; public policy analysis; professional medical obligations.
COHIS: The Ashtray: Smoking and Tobacco - Facts about smoking, effects of smoking on health, and help to quit smoking.
High Country ASSIST Home Page - Community organizations and hundreds of its citizens have formed a coalition-alliance to significantly reduce the death and illness associated with the use of tobacco products.
Saskatchewan Coalition for Tobacco Reduction - Facts and resources on tobacco control for Saskatchewan residents.
DOC: Positive Health Strategies for the Clinic, Classroom, and Community - Doctors Ought to Care (DOC). "DOC has not been afraid to take risks in dealing with our nation's major health issues. A far cry from pamphlets and preaching about the 'dangers', DOC focuses on changing attitudes that have been molded by misleading advertising in the mass media."
International Union Against Cancer - Cigarette smoking is the largest single avoidable cause of ill health and premature mortality in the world. This program aims to change attitudes to tobacco use in society and to promote a comprehensive strategy to eradicate tobacco production, sales, promotion, and use.
Still Waiting to Exhale - Public Citizen report on "Do Nothing Republican leaders do their thing for Big Tobacco contributors".
Coalition for a Tobacco Free Mobile - Effects of tobacco; prevention and education; quitting; smokefree environments; youth and tobacco; news and resources; from Mobile, Alabama.
ACSH: Tobacco - American Council on Science and Health has articles on smoking, tobacco, and public policy.
Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention Alliance - Statewide coalition of organizations and individuals committed to reducing tobacco use and exposure to second-hand smoke throughout Colorado through education and advocacy.
Tobacco Free Initiative - World Health Organization provides information on tobacco's health impact, secondhand smoke, economics, youth, industry conduct, women and tobacco, and advocacy for tobacco policy change.
International Society for the Prevention of Tobacco Induced Diseases - Details about this scientific, medical organization which is aiming at prevention of diseases caused and/or worsened by tobacco use. Includes publications, meetings and contact information.
Burning Down the Houses - Report from Public Citizen on tobacco money in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Muskoka-Parry Sound Health Unit - Smoking, quitting, worksite cessation program; tobacco survey; smoke-free area restaurants; talking to kids about smoking; tobacco's impact on the environment.
Alberta Tobacco Reduction Alliance - Facts and resources on tobacco issues, including statistics, quitting tips, downloadable publications, and a matrix of programs and materials for tobacco reduction practitioners.
Canadian Council for Tobacco Control - Health information; industry documents; links to related sites.
Sevier County Tobacco Coalition - The single most preventable cause of death and disease in Tennessee is the use of tobacco products. Our main focus is a healthy community for our residents.
Nursing World: Letter to Philip Morris - American Nurses Association open letter explains their stand, and details why they doubt PM's "youth smoking prevention" campaign is anything but a public relations gesture.
ACCP Speakers Kit - Slides, notes, newsletter, and other resources for speakers on tobacco topics.
American College of Chest Physicians - It's the chest physician, the cardiac specialist, or the oncologist, that breaks the prognosis to the family. This website goes to the response of the medical community to preventable disease and death.
American Association for World Health - Facts, trends, news, analysis; focus is on World No Tobacco Day 2000.
American Lung Association of East Bay - ALA in the San Francisco bay area. Programs, special events, volunteer opportunities, advocacy, and help.
American Cancer Society - Information on all types of cancer; support groups; research, news, and education; advocacy; quitting tips; health issues; public issues.
The American Legacy Foundation - Promoting tobacco-free generations; vision is to become the preeminent authority in tobacco prevention by funding cutting edge research, marketing and education programs that tell the truth about tobacco use.
Smoke Free Wisconsin - Promotes effective tobacco control policies that will protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke; prevent the initiation of smoking, especially among children; and ensure that there is a well-funded, comprehensive and effective statewide tobacco prevention program.
Fight The Stink - Fighting to reduce tobacco use in Pierce County, Washington.
STRIKE Headquarters - A college advocacy initiative to strike a blow against Big Tobacco by providing students with the facts about tobacco products, what they do to the customer, why, and who the tobacco industry targets.
CHARGe Coalition - Based in Georgia; forum in which strategies can be developed, coordinated, and implemented to prevent and reduce tobacco use.
American Lung Association of California - "The American Lung Association of California is active in Sacramento and statewide in opposing the tobacco industry's pervasive influence." Tobacco information, issues, news, analysis, and advocacy.
American Lung Association of Colorado - Tobacco use page. Programs, campaigns, quitting tips, secondhand smoke facts, advocacy, special events.
American Lung Association of Minnesota Smoking Page - Cessation information, secondhand smoke facts, industry watch, advocacy network, wall of remembrance, literature.
APA tobacco page - American Psychology Association provides documents, APA statements, related links.
Asian Pacific Islander Tobacco Education Network - Programs, personal tobacco stories, tobacco industry targetting of ethnic minorities.
Billings/Yellowstone County Tobacco Free Coalition - Projects and activities of a coalition in Billings, Montana which is trying reduce the use of tobacco.
Billings/Yellowstone County Tobacco Free Coalition - Projects and activities of a coalition in Billings, Montana which is trying to reduce the use of tobacco. Includes list of smokefree area restaurants.
Coalition for a Tobacco Free Pennsylvania - Coalition of statewide and local organizations that have come together to combat Pennsylvania's number one cause of preventable disease, disability and death: tobacco use.
C-Health - Smoking - Tobacco news with a focus on Canada, smoking and health information.
Commit To a Healthier Brant - Demonstration site of the Ontario Tobacco Strategy; aims to demonstrate innovative approaches to reduce tobacco use in Brant County, Ontario through prevention, protection and cessation initiatives.
Cheshire Coalition for Tobacco Free Youth - New Hampshire based coalition. Events; news; factsheets; moke-free restaurant listings; media resources.
Colorado Tobacco Education and Prevention - Tobacco information and facts, local programs and coalitions, smoking cessation programs, prevention tips, best practices for prevention, state and local laws and ordinances.
Imperial County Tobacco Free Zone - Community tobacco education campaign in Imperial County, California.
Health Canada Tobacco Home Page - Tobacco related information; in English and French.
Koop Institute - The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth has projects on tobacco, nicotine, addiction, public heatlh.
Kentucky Action - Statewide coalition in partnership with health, educational, and government for decreasing tobacco use and strengthening tobacco control policy.
Smoke-free Ottawa - Aninitiative sponsored by the Ottawa Council on Smoking and Health, in partnership with Regional Heart Beat Committee, and Cancer Care Ontario Region East. Goal is to support the successful implementation of the new smokefree bylaw.
Los Angeles County Tobacco Control Alliance - A collective of six coalitions focused on six communities in L.A. County - Hispanic, African American, youth, women, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Gay & Lesbian - committed to curbing tobacco use among these groups.
Minnesota Partnership for Action Against Tobacco - Mission is to reduce the harm that tobacco causes the people of Minnesota. Resources to help you quit; research; intervention; news; secondhand smoke public information.
New Jersey GASP - Nonprofit educational organization that aims for smokefree air for nonsmokers, tobacco-free lives for children. Smokefree dining in New Jersey, legislation and litigation, information on smokefree air everywhere, FAQs, calendar, alerts, and newsletter.
North Adams Tobacco Awareness Program - Extensive collection of information, links, and resources from Massachusetts.
Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board - Tobacco news, tobacco control efforts of the organization.
Morrow County Tobacco Coalition - Coalition of businesses, schools, county agencies, the community, families and youth, dedicated to providing a tobacco-free environment for the youth of Morrow County, Oregon within five years.
NicNet - Sponsored by the Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco Research.
North Coast Tobacco Prevention Network - Mission: to reduce the number of tobacco victims and prevent the pain and suffering they must endure. Online newsletters, factsheets, and articles.
North Adams Tobacco Awareness Program - Information, news, advocacy, education, and quitting resources.
Ontario Tobacco Research Unit - Established in 1993 to foster and conduct research, monitoring and evaluation contributing to programs and policies to eliminate tobacco-related health problems in Ontario.
OKSWAT.COM - SWAT, Studnets Working Against Tobacco, a statewide anti-tobacco youth movement in Oklahoma. "The Tobacco Industry has targeted teens for years. It's time for it to stop, and now Big Tobacco becomes OUR TARGET!!!"
Oklahoma Tobacco Use Prevention - Tobacco's toll on Oklahoma; Oklahoma's prevention programs; news and events.
Smoking Stinks; Anne Arundel County, Maryland - Dangers of tobacco; youth focus.
Oregon Tobacco Prevention and Education: Information Central - Tobacco use reduction: the program, the science, the people, the laws, the secrets, the tools, the press. One-stop access.
Research for International Tobacco Control - Mission is to create a strong research, funding and knowledge base for the development of effective tobacco control policies and programs that will minimize the threat of tobacco production and consumption to health and human development in developing countries.
Project UpInSmoke - Dedicated to spreading the truth about the dangers of smoking and how evil those tobacco companies and their supporters really are. Also offers a way to help crack down on stores selling cigarettes to minors.
Rhode Island Non-Smokers - Guide to smokefree dining by city or town.
Zapbac.com - Oregon tobacco education program; focus is on empowering youth to identify and counter pro-tobacco influences in their community.
Roswell Park Cancer Institute - Tobacco research and intervention. Widely recognized as a reliable source of information and assistance on tobacco issues by smokers, businesses, teachers and administrators, health professionals, local health agencies and others wishing to learn more about tobaco use prevention and cessation.
The Schuylkill County Tobacco Free Youth Coalition - Dedicated to helping young people to avoid tobacco addiction, with information about the Coalition and its Tobacco Free Ballfield Project.
Smoky Lies - Computer animated movie developed at Dartmouth.
Stomp It Out - Advocating for tobacco-free communities in the Riverside CA area.
Survivors and Victims Empowerment Project - The Survivors and Victims Empowerment program identifies, trains and works with tobacco survivors and acts as a resource for groups in North Carolina. Youth listen and learn when a survivor of a tobacco-related illnes shares their story.
Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department - Tobacco Resources - Quitting resources; information; smokefree dining guide.
Technical Assistance Legal Center - TALC provides assistance to California cities and counties developing local laws to restrict tobacco advertising and youth access to tobacco products in their communities. Recommendations on ad restrictions that are legal; information on what the state settlement does not accomplish in this and other areas.
Tobacco Education and Prevention Coaliation - Based in Wasco-Sherman, Oregon; offers factsheets, with references for each fact, on smoking, cigarettes, teens, spit tobacco, cigars; also list of local smokefree dining, newsletter, toll-free quitline, and videos available for lending.
Tobacco Free Kansas Coalition - Mission is to reduce the prevalence of tobacco use and addiction and to assist Kansans in avoiding the negative health and economic impact of tobacco use. News, factsheets, information, resources.
Tobacco Free LA - A coalition of Lewiston and Auburn agencies, companies, and individuals committed to reducing death and disease from tobacco. Tobacco facts, quitting, secondhand smoke, local ordinances, news.
Tobacco use in British Columbia - Heart & Stroke Foundation of Canada. Summary of the "number one preventable cause of death in British Columbia, killing more than 5,800 people and costing the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars annually."
tobaccofreedom.org - Education, news, research, and analysis.
Trans-Atlantic Conference on Tobacco - Sponsored by the Koop Institute, a group of health care professionals at Cambridge University and at Dartmouth Medical Center met to discuss tobacco policy, research, and prevention/treatment strategies.
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program - Health program features reports on the program itself, tobacco industry advertising, youth smoking in Massachusettes, local and statewide programs, research, and policy initiatives.
The Cancer Research Campaign - UK cancer prevention program has focus on reducing tobacco product use; provides information on smoking trends, women and smoking, pro-tobacco influences in the UK, and quitting.
Broward County SWAT - Students workin against tobacco in Broward County, Maryland.
Students Working Against Tobacco - Teens in Florida working to stop the tobacco industry from targeting them.
UICC GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network - Tobacco news, resources, calendar, tools for community tobacco control, factsheets.
Ontario Tobacco-Free Network - Network consisting of the Canadian Cancer Society Ontario Division, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, and the Ontario Lung Association. Working together to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco use. News and updates; publications; links to related organizations.
Australian Council on Smoking and Health - Dedicated to raising awareness in the community on smoking and health issues in Australia. Educational campaigns, quit programs, library, and tobacco industry secrets.
Tuscola Partnership for Tobacco Reduction - A community-based coalition in Michigan that includes human services agencies, schools, and the public.
Coalition for a Tobacco Free Midlands - Established in 1991 in partnership with Project ASSIST (The American Stop Smoking Intervention Study). Part of a 13-coalition network founded to develop grassroots activity and support for the prevention and control of tobacco use. Through a network of individuals and agencies, the Coalition promotes awareness and provides educational opportunities about tobacco use to youth and adults in the Midlands.
Commit Coalition - Works through a variety of community channels to prevent children from starting to smoke, encourage and help smokers and consumers of tobacco products to quit and to promote smoke free, healthier environments.
Smokefree Indiana - Reducing tobacco use for a healthier Indiana. From Ball State University. "How-to" emphasis.
North Valley Region Tobacco Prevention Center - Anti-tobacco advocacy group located in Chico, California and serves six Northern California counties. Services include: Mini-Grants, sponsorships, trainings and conferences.
Smoke Free Leicester - Smoke Free Alliance for Leicester - Promoting a smoke free Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland by giving health advice, information and education.
Pennsylvania Alliance to Control Tobacco - Statewide alliance whose focus is grassroots tobacco public policy and advocacy.
New Jersey GASP - Advocating since 1974 for smokefree air and tobacco-free lives. Resources on secondhand smoke, its health effects, smokefree workplaces and restaurants, legislation and litigation, tobacco marketing, and solving secondhand smoke problems.
Tobacco Wisconsin - Current and accurate information on tobacco control resources, research, and technical assistance.
Southwest Washington Health District: Tobacco - Focus on prevention, secondhand smoke, smokefree restaurants and workplaces.
Asthma, Tobacco, Air Quality, Asthma Clinical Research Center, Tuberculosis - The mission of the American Lung Association of Metropolitan Chicago is to reduce the pain and suffering caused by lung disease, the third leading cause of death and disability in the United States.
Idecide4me - Program designed for teens by teens; information on tobacco, cigarettes, and the tobacco industry.
JEL-Iowa - "We're Iowa teens fighting the tobacco industry's corrupt efforts to manipulate us into using their addictive, deadly product."
American Public Health Association - World Federation of Public Health Associations - Statement on tobacco control and combatting the tobacco industry, paper on the same topics.
The Cancer Council of New South Wales: The Tobacco Web - Factsheets on the history of smoking, smoking in Australia, smoking and cancer, other health effects of smoking, secondhand smoke, young people and smoking, women and smoking, the tobacco industry, quitting smoking.
Tobacco Free Lane County - Oregon organization supporting smokefree environments and tobacco use reduction.
Alabama Tobacco Prevention and Control - Goals include eliminating environmental tobacco use exposure, promoting quitting, preventing initiation, and identifying and eliminating disparities among populations.
Minnesota Smoke-Free Coalition - Established in 1984 to reduce tobacco use in Minnesota; goals are to prevent children from beginning a lifelong addiction to tobacco, to help those who want to quit smoking and to protect non-smokers from exposure to secondhand smoke.
Smoke-Free For Health - Non-profit organization formed to protect Floridians from exposure to second-hand smoke. Focus is to ensure the passage of a constitutional amendment in Florida to prohibit smoking in indoor work places.
Tobacco Dependence Program - Dedicated to reducing the harm to health caused by tobacco, through education, treatment, research and advocacy; a program of the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Cessation guidelines for individuals and clinicians; tobacco-free policies; chemical dependency and nicotine; consultation and training services.
Hillsborough County SWAT - Students Working Against Tobacco. New stories or installments every 3-4 weeks. Topics include the battle over tobacco, consumer culture, forming personal identity, and creative expression.
American Medical Women's Association - Organization of over 10,000 women physicians and medical students dedicated to the care of the woman patient; letter of support for US federal lawsuit against the tobacco companies.
American Heart Association - AHA has a lot of resources on tobacco, cigarettes, smoking, and spit tobacco.
SmokeLess States - National tobacco policy initiative that supports statewide coalitions with the goal of reducing tobacco use.
Tobacco Free Montanta - Coalition of groups in Billings and Yellowstone County, Montana; offers opportunities for tobacco action, prevention, and cessation.
ALA of Oregon - Tobacco prevention, advocacy, and programs.
Canadian Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer - Committed to helping Canadians choose not to smoke, or to quit if they are already smokers. Educational material to help prevent smoking, about the effects of secondhand smoking, and about how to quit. Also advocates to reduce the marketing of tobacco products to young people, and to protect non-smokers from secondhand smoke.
Indiana Tobacco Control Center - Tobacco control resources; help for the smoker/chewer, for physcians, health care providers, and policy makers.