Links

National Organizations and Agencies

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

American Lung Association Tobacco Control Site

Canadian Council for Tobacco Control

Centers for Disease Control

Tobacco News Sites

New York Times

Yahoo News

Other Recommended Sites

Registered Nurses Association of Ontario, Canada. A website for nurses that highlights the key role they play in helping people quit smoking, and gives them proven methods for discussing smoking habits with all their patients.

Smoke Free Homes Project

Thetruth.com is a website aimed at children to help educate them on tobacco use.

Tobacco control online is an international peer review journal for health professionals and others in tobacco control

Globalink is a joint project of the Tobacco-Control Resource Center and the International Union Against Cancer

Partners with Tobacco Use Research Centers: Advancing Transdisciplinary Science and Policy Studies Program launched by NCI/NIDA to apply and integrate advances in molecular biology, neuroscience, genetics, and behavioral science to the challenge of tobacco control, focusing on the significant knowledge gaps that stand in the way of developing more effective strategies for reducing tobacco use in the United Sates.

Addressing Tobacco in Health Care is an initiative intended to integrate effective tobacco treatment as part of basic health care.

Bridging the Gap: Research Informing Practice and Policy for Healthy Youth Behavior is a program to improve the understanding of the role of policy and environmental factors in youth alcohol, illicit drug, and tobacco use, as well as diet and physical activity, to evaluate their effectiveness in reducing substance use and obesity among youth.

Partnership for Prevention is dedicated to building evidence of sound disease prevention and health promotion policies and practices and advocating their adoption by public and private sectors.

Smoke Free Homes, from the US Environmental Protection Agency, is dedicated to protecting children from secondhand smoke.

The work of the USCF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education spans policy and historical research, economics, and science. Their work is designed to inform and improve the effectiveness of public health and clinical interventions to reduce tobacco use.

Truth In Advertising: A collection of vintage cigarette advertisments from the age of innocence is a humorous take on old tobacco advertising from the 40's and 50's.

The Richard W. Pollay 20th Century Tobacco Advertisement Collection is a catalogue of 8,000 slides containing tobacco advertisements, tobacco industry issue ads, and anti-smoking ads.

The Navy Environmental Health Center has a great selection of tobacco cessation related fact sheets, briefs and presentations.

The Nightingales is a group of nurse activists who work to focus public attention on the behavior of the tobacco industry and its contribution to the preventable epidemic of tobacco-caused disease and death.

Treatobacco.net is an essential resource for those working on the treatment of tobacco dependence throughout the world. It presents evidence-based information about the treatment of tobacco dependence.

The North American Quitline Consortium (NAQC) seeks to unite health departments, quitline service providers, researchers and national organizations in the United States and Canada to enable these quitline professionals to learn from each other and to improve quitline services.

Surgeon General's Reports on Tobacco: Key publications on tobacco control. The new surgeon General report is The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General

Ask. Advise. Refer. is ADHA's national Smoking Cessation Initiative (SCI) designed to encourage dental hygienists' to perform smoking interventions with their patients/clients.

Surgeon General's Reports on Tobacco- Key publications on tobacco control.

Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs [pdf]

GLOBALink and the University of Sydney have joined forces to create TOBACCOpedia, an Online Tobacco Encyclopedia with just about everything you ever wanted to know about tobacco. To start your search, go to: http://TobaccoPedia.org 

www.QuitNet.com- QuitNet, which operates in association with Boston University, has helped tens of thousands quit smoking through it's unique online community of smokers and ex-smokers.

Prevline- a page by the National Clearinghouse for Drugs and Alcohol Information- gives information about addiction and substance abuse.

University of Michigan's Monitoring the Future Study- is a summary of an annual survey of cigarette smoking in teenagers.

National Institute on Drug Abuse- gives information on drug abuse, addiction, prevention, treatment, and policy.

Foundation for Tobaccofree America- Patrick Reynolds is featured as a speaker against tobacco.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)- is a national organization devoted solely to the problems of smoking and to protecting non-smokers rights.

Corporate Accountability International- is a website aimed at stopping the marketing of tobacco products towards youth.

Smokescreen- is an interactive web site that allows users to subscribe to forums for discussion related to tobacco.

Tobacco Free Kids is a national organization aimed at protecting children from tobacco abuse. On their website, there is a section with current news regarding tobacco policy and legislation as it relates to children.

Nicotine on the Net- sponsored by the Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco Research provides information on smoking related topics such as; cessation, prevention, policy, research, kids.

Tobacco Wars- the Health Authority is a web page that provides the latest information from the war on tobacco, providing both general and litigation specific tobacco information. It also includes information on how you can cash in on settlements and a form for smokers that want to register to quit with settlement funds.

Buttout- a resource guide for anti-tobacco campaigns.  Innovative, humerous anti-tobacco products.

Tobacco Control Supersite- developed by Simon Chapman, Department of Public Health and  Community Medicine, the University of Sydney. This web sites provides links for public health researchers and advocates in addressing contemporary issues in international tobacco control.

Bidis- Information on an Indian export of cigarettes that have recently attracted a lot of attention from youth. These relatively inexpensive flavored cigarettes are becoming popular with young people.

Reimbursement for Smoking Cessation Therapy - this is a pamphlet that details a method that health care practitioners can use to obtain compensation for giving smoking cessation therapies to their patients. This pamphlet was designed by PACT (Professional Assisted Cessation Therapy).

Sites That Provide Data:

There is a wealth of information and data concerning tobacco use available on the web.  This page has been added as a resource to assist users in locating sites that supply that data.  Please review the usage parameters before taking any data for use in publications or presentations.

National Clinical Health Survey : Information and data on adult smoking rates by age, sex, race, and education as well as the number of live births to women who smoke.   Opens on a quick-stat page with pdf files available to download.   1970's - 1990's.

Monitoring the Future:  Various tables containing smoking prevalence rates and brand preferences of eighth, tenth, and twelfth grade students.  Trend and lifetime use tables are available for 1997, 1998 and 2000.

CDC: The CDC "data" web page links to reports and databases on subjects ranging from the prevelance of smokeless tobacco usage in teens to the response of smokers to raises in cigarrette prices in Georgia.

JCAHO: The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations strives to continuously improve the safety and quality of care provided to the public through the provision of health care accreditation and related services that support performance improvement in health care organizations.

Disclaimer- These links are provided as a courtesy for our users. Tobacco Free Nurses does not in any way endorse, support or monitor the content found on these sites.