Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. - Book review.

Lung Cancer On rise Among Women - Lung cancer rates are falling among men but not women, reflecting smoking patterns over recent decades, according to a new report.

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women - NOW pamphlet. "Within six years of the tobacco industry's introduction of cigarette brands and ad campaigns targetting women, the number of girls smoking increased 110%." Factsheet and research references.

Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women - According to recent research.

Smoking's a Drag for Women - Article from the Toronto Sun about smoking cessation.

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic - World Health Organiziation fact sheet.

ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke? - Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking.

HomeArts: Health News -- Lung Cancer Risk Underestimated, Especially by Women - The most common cancer in the U.S. is lung cancer, and women have the highest incidence of lung cancer and the highest death rate.

You've Come a Long Way...or Have You? - From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing.

Tobacco Advertising and Women - Gallery of tobacco ads, some exploiting women, some targetting women.

Young Women and Smoking - "Each day in the United Stated about 1,500 girls being smoking. Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school graduation...Data show an abrupt increase in smoking initiation in girls under age 18 around 1967, when tobacco advertising introduced specific brands of cigarettes for women."

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.

Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims advertising - You've come a long way baby. How cigarettes were pushed in the 70's. Yes, it does seem cheesy now. But it got results: the target audience started using the advertised product more, as they say in marketing.

National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco - Aims to help recognize the dangers of tobacco use and exposure, and take a leadership role in helping the global community of women and girls lead tobacco-free lives.

Tobacco and Women's Health - Book review of book of same title.

Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge - Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.

This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care? - Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups.

Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO - Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report.

ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000 - Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice.

Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy - Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart.

Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry - Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.

Smoking and Quitting for Women - From the National Women's Health Information Center.

Women Resisting the Tobacco Industry - Paper presented at a conference.

The Task Force for Tobacco-Free Women and Girls - History, goals, and accomplishments of the task force for tobacco-free women and girls.

National Council on Women's Health - NCWH provides means for mother, daughters, teens, family and friends to emerge as community co-leaders in fighting against tobacco addiction, while helping young women with healthier routes to self-esteem.

Mothers and Daughters Race Against Teen Smoking - NCWH provides means for mother, daughters, teens, family and friends to emerge as community co-leaders in fighting against tobacco addiction, while helping young women with healthier routes to self-esteem.

Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction - "Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation."

Cigarette Smoking Causes Child Learning Disabilities - Attention Deficit and Behavior Disorders - New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.

Influencing our Taste - Cigarette magazine advertising and cigarette slogans in the 1990's.

Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis - Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women."

The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women - Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.

OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk - Spit tobacco isn't used just by baseball players and rugged outdoorsmen. It's used by women, too, and those who do increase their risk of breast cancer.

Women First - Smoking Cessation - "For women approaching midlife, smoking cessation is the single most important change you can make to enhance your life expectancy." Collection of articles on smoking and quitting for women.

Women and Smoking - A report of the Surgeon General 2001 which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links.

Tobacco as a Problem for Women - Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.

National Council on Women's Health - NCWH provides a means for mother, daughters, teens, family and friends to emerge as community co-leaders in fighting against tobacco addiction, while helping young women with healthier routes to self-esteem.

Smoking and Reproduction - ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and long-term growth.

You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World - Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking = liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally.

Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes - Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.

Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking - US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular

Women Suffer Huge Rise in Lung Disease - Chronic lung disease in women almost doubled in the 1990s as smoking began to show its effects.

Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females - The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.

Why Women Smoke - Personal reflections by a woman with a 16 year smoking habit. From Women.com

drkoop.com: Women's Health: Smoking During Pregnancy - If you are pregnant and have not quit smoking, you are harming your child. Short article explains.

Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women - Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher.

Why Women and Girls Must Fight the Addictive Power of Advertising - Not entirely about tobacco advertising, but significantly; examples given, principles illustrated.

"Torches of Freedom": Themes of Women's Liberation in American Cigarette Advertising - Paper presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Convention, Albuquerque, N.M., February, 1999. Explores tobacco industry ad campaigns targetting women and industry use of women's groups.

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women - NOW Foundation fact sheet.

Women's Magazines and Tobacco in Europe - An aricle from the Lancet.

Women and Tobacco - WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.

Facts on Women and Tobacco - Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women - Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.

The Wrong Way to Stay Slim - Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking.

Society Calls on Women's Magazines to Stop Pushing Cancer - Citing research that shows that magazines which advertise cigarettes are far less likely to run stories about the health effects of smoking, the Society for Women's Health Research appeals to women's magazines to stop running cigarette ads.

Philip Morris: National Expert on Women - Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues".

Women, Heart Disease and Smoking - Factsheet from NIH.

Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls - Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.

Mediascope Issue Briefs - Women and Smoking - Factsheet, all sources cited; tobacco industry promotion to women; smoking and women's health.

New Philip Morris Campaign Blatantly Targets Young Women - Spring 1997 newsletter of the National Partnership for Women & Families reports on Philip Morris's Woman Thing Music.

Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting - Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language.

Independence from Smoking - The National Women's Health Information Center has created this page to help empower women and girls, and the people they love, to breathe clean! Gain independence from the stale world of smoking by using our information and resources. Learn about the specific effects of smoking on your health and how to overcome barriers to quit.

Speakers Kit: Tobacco and Women - Slides ready for presentation on tobacco advertising and women, diseases caused by tobacco, myths and facts about tobacco and cancer, smoking and reproductive health, secondhand smoke and women, and more.

States, Women's Groups Slow To Address Women's Smoking - Lung cancer kills more women every year than breast cancer, and has for some time, but state government and women's groups have been slow to act; article examines why.

Smoking is a Women's Issue - Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.

Fatal Attraction: Lifting the Smokescreen - Women's Guide to Stoping Smoking, and also provides tailored smoking cessation advice to women.

Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke - Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.

The New Face of Tobacco: Women - Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.

Many Women Unaware of Full Smoking Risks - Recent study shows that women -- who are the fastest growing group of smokers -- are not aware of the different ways that smoking can harm them.

ivillage: Smoking and Women - Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.

Women's Cigarette Market - 1973 R. J. Reynolds memo discusses it marketing strategies targeting women.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking - Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility - Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.

16. Women and smoking - Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.

Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model - Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer.

Surgeon General's Report: Health Effects of Tobacco Among Women - Covers what cigarette products do to women, breaks it down to death, lung cancer, other cancers, heart disease, COPD, menstrual function, bone density, and secondhand smoke.

Background Info on Women, Girls and Tobacco - Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targetting women and girls.