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DescriptionSites relating to tobacco, smoking, health, cigarettes, cigars, the tobacco industry, nicotine, addiction, public health, health policy, tobacco policy, action to reduce tobacco harm, places to get aid when you want to quit.

Quitting (149)
Women (78)
Activism (354)
Organizations (29)
Teen Smoking (32)

Nicotine Addiction in Britain (Site) - Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
thetruth.com (Site) - American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. "The truth about how the cigarette industry operates".
Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes (Site) - Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
Cancer Facts and Figures (Site) - Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
Tobacco BBS (Site) - Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
Quit Victoria (Site) - "Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes (Site) - Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
TobaccoFree (Site) - Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets (Site) - From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting (Site) - A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products (Site) - NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
The Tobacco Reference Guide (Site) - Online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets about hazards of smoking.
'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine (Site) - 1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
Smoking Is Ugly (Site) - Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.
A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer (Site) - University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (Site) - Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
Nicotine Addiction in Britain (Site) - Includes report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. "Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices".
Revolution Health : Nicotine Dependence (Site) - Find nicotine dependence information, covering symptoms, causes, risks, treatments and types. Discuss nicotine dependence issues with others in forums, blogs, personal stories and recommendations.
Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues (Site) - A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and the tobacco industry.
CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (Site) - Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.
TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly (Site) - Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Concise factsheet.
Tobacco Web (Site) - From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine (Site) - Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
Nicotine Junkies (Site) - Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D. (Site) - Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) (Site) - A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum (Site) - Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition, and treatment of nicotine dependence.
Tobacco Control Online (Site) - A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
Low Tar Exposed (Site) - Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
Research Report: Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
WHO: The Tobacco Atlas (Site) - History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures.
Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes (Site) - American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections (Site) - Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry (Site) - Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame (Site) - List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
Nicotine and Addiction (Site) - ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.

Nicotine Addiction in Britain (Site) - Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
thetruth.com (Site) - American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. "The truth about how the cigarette industry operates".
Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes (Site) - Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
Cancer Facts and Figures (Site) - Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
Tobacco BBS (Site) - Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
Quit Victoria (Site) - "Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes (Site) - Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
TobaccoFree (Site) - Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets (Site) - From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting (Site) - A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products (Site) - NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
The Tobacco Reference Guide (Site) - Online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets about hazards of smoking.
'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine (Site) - 1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
Smoking Is Ugly (Site) - Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.
A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer (Site) - University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health (Site) - Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
Nicotine Addiction in Britain (Site) - Includes report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. "Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices".
Revolution Health : Nicotine Dependence (Site) - Find nicotine dependence information, covering symptoms, causes, risks, treatments and types. Discuss nicotine dependence issues with others in forums, blogs, personal stories and recommendations.
Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues (Site) - A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and the tobacco industry.
CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (Site) - Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.
TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly (Site) - Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Concise factsheet.
Tobacco Web (Site) - From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine (Site) - Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
Nicotine Junkies (Site) - Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D. (Site) - Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) (Site) - A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum (Site) - Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition, and treatment of nicotine dependence.
Tobacco Control Online (Site) - A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
Low Tar Exposed (Site) - Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
Research Report: Nicotine Addiction (Site) - Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
WHO: The Tobacco Atlas (Site) - History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures.
Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes (Site) - American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections (Site) - Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry (Site) - Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame (Site) - List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
Nicotine and Addiction (Site) - ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
The Easy Way to Stop Smoking Join the Millions Who Have Become NonSmokers Using Allen Carrs Easyway Method (Books) - Only
Weekly Quit Stats for Week of Sunday, November 5 (Post) - http://directory.google.com/Top/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Qu itting/ http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/ http://www.thetruth.com/ http://www.smoke-free.ca/ is sponsored by the Physicians for a Smoke Free Canada. ...
ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen () - Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
Society Strategies to Decrease Smoking Do Work (Post) - can produce a rapid decrease in smoking prevalence. From 2002 to 2006, New York City implemented comprehensive tobacco control measures including increased tobacco tax, smoke-free workplaces, and hard-hitting educational campaigns.
OncoLink: The Control and Manipulation of Nicotine and Cigarettes () - 1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.
Reference.comWeb DirectoryTopHealthAddictionsSubstanceAbuse ... (Site) - Free online Web directory. ... Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools - Information resource list. ... sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes. ...
Think Outside the Bottle (Post) - ... about one in four is due to abuse of alcohol, tobacco or illicit drugs. The economic cost of the abuse is estimated at more than $414 billion a year.” http://www.infoimagination.org/ps/drug_war/articles/substance_abuse.html In ...
AddictionFreeNaturally Liberating Yourself from Tobacco, Caffeine, Sugar, Alcohol, Prescription Drugs, Cocaine, and Narcotics (Books) - Only
Substance Abuse Substance Abuse Treatment Benefits in NonMedicaid (Post) - The Management of Substance Abuse Team (MSB) ... www.who.int/substance_abuse/en - 24k - Cached ... pertaining to psychoactive substance use and substance abuse abuse, and substance abuse also information about . ...
Defining Drug and Substance Abuse (Post) - This does not include dependence on tobacco and ordinary caffeine-containing drinks. www.wwcta.org/ins7-def.htm. Substance abuse has a range of definitions related to disaproval over use or overuse of mood altering substances. ...
General Addiction Medicine (Post) - The relative risks and etiologic fractions of different causes of death and disease attributable to alcohol, tobacco and illicit drug use in Canada (http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/162/12/1669) / WebLink ...
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Why Study Drug Abuse and Addiction (Post) - ... their combined medical, economic, criminal, and social impact. Every year, abuse of illicit drugs and alcohol contributes to the death of more than 100000 Americans, while tobacco is linked to an estimated 440000 deaths per year.
World Health Organisation (Site) - "Tobacco and alcohol use typically starts during youth and acts as ... Thus tobacco and alcohol contribute indirectly to a large ... substance_abuse/More. ...
Second Hand Smoke (Post) - Secondhand smoke, also known as environmental tobacco smoke, is a complex mixture of gases and particles that includes smoke from the burning cigarette, cigar, or pipe tip (sidestream smoke) and exhaled mainstream smoke.1 ...
American Lung Association 7 Steps to a SmokeFree Life (Books) - Only
Quitting (Post) - http://www.cafeprogressive.com/cgi-bin/links/pod.cgi?dir=/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/... Cafe Progressive / Open Directory. the entire directory only in Tobacco/Quitting. Top: Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco: ...
Quitting Smoking for Dummies (Books) - Only
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Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking 3rd Edition (Books) - Only
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a teachable moment and a unique opportunity to support patients who are interested in quitting spitchew use. Dentists and dental hygienists are an obvious partner for this project. The Wyoming Department of Health Substance Abuse Division, Tobacco Prevention Program, and Teton County Through With Chew,along with 19 communitybased Tobacco Free Communities programs, (Image) - TWCdates2006.jpg
Substance abuse program for parents, teens in Morristown (News) - MORRISTOWN -- Family Service of Morris County if offering a two day program "Now You Know" for teens ages 13 to 17 and their parents.
"Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely () - New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
Teen substance abuse highlighted in survey, recent arrests (News) - Of all the statistics released in two recent surveys of Wilton teens and parents on drinking, smoking and drug use, perhaps the most important number is the percentage of teens who look to their parents for guidance.
Ending The Tobacco Holocaust Chapter 4 References an Footnotes. (Site) - ... asp?b=Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Industry&u=http%3a%2f ... 2fa1998100608.shtml&t=lst/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Industr y. ...
DARE promotes healthy lifestyle (News) - Nine Grade 6 classes totaling 198 students graduated from DARE over the last term. The Drug Abuse Resistance Education program was originally developed in Los Angeles, California in 1983. Since that time DARE has expanded to over 50 countries around the world.
Look Tobacco (Site) - Tobacco and health: the facts. http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/pages/facts.html. Additional links to tobacco and health information, provided by the World Health ...
Local briefs (News) - PARSIPPANY -- More than 50 high school and middle school students from North Jersey will be honored on Tuesday at a ceremony that will also include an abbreviated performance of the upcoming Broadway musical "Wallenberg."
The Cigarette Century The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America (Books) - Only
The Natchez Democrat (News) - As May is Better Hearing and Speech Month nationally, now is a good time to refresh our memories of speech and hearing wellness. When we take good care of our overall health, we reduce the risk of damaging our abilities to speak and hear. Of course the standard health regime does apply.
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs Challenging Myths, Assessing Theories, Individualizing Interventions (Books) - Only
A Stand Against Drugs, Alcohol (News) - Saturday, May 10 NORTH ADAMS — Drugs, alcohol and youths have always mixed, but never well.
Out of the Ashes Help for People Who Have Stopped Smoking (Books) - Only
A Stand Against Drugs, Alcohol (News) - NORTH ADAMS — Drugs, alcohol and youths have always mixed, but never well. Yesterday, this age-old problem was given new hope for a solution during a community forum facilitated by the youth leaders from the UNITY Youth Leadership Program.
These Things Aint Gonna Smoke Themselves A LoveHateLoveHateLove Letter to a Very Bad Habit (Books) - Only
Stoughton High snuffs cigarettes (News) - Stoughton High School Students Against Destructive Decisions program is bringing Hollywood to the high school through a $10,000 “Taking on Tobacco” grant from the Medical Foundation in Boston.
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Community Service Inc. serves youth and their families (News) - (This is the last in a series on partner agencies of the United Way of Central Arkansas, formerly the United Way of Faulkner County.)
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Open Directory Health Addictions Substance Abuse Tobacco (Site) - ... nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards. ... Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, ...
Substance Abuse in the Workplace CRC (Image) - 492f323141593435383738384c.jpg
Tobacco Health RSS Feeds Gourt (Site) - ... areas,/liliTaxation,/liliActivism and lobbying,/liliPrevention of tobacco use, ... Tobacco is also chewed, "dipped" (placed between the cheek and gum), and ...
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PROBLEM STATEMENT There are more deaths, illnesses and disabilities from substance abuse than from any other preventable health conditions. Approximately one in four deaths are attributable to alcohol, tobacco and illicit (Image) - substanceabuse.jpg
Open Directory Kids and Teens Health Substance Abuse (Site) - ... of alcohol, drugs, gambling and tobacco problems and help kids make healthy lifestyle choices. ... of marijuana, heroin, cocaine, tobacco, and alcohol. ...
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Tobacco.org Links (Site) - Top/Health/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco. ... http://directory.mozilla.org/Health/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco ... The tobacco connection, with links to articles. ...
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