Links
Each year, what kills more people than AIDS, alcohol abuse, car accidents, murders, suicides, illegal drugs, and fires combined?
The answer is: Cigarette Smoking
Want more information? Want to visit some more websites? Well read on... check out the links we've included below! Also, check out the Tobacco Control Resources page for more links to tobacco prevention and control organizations and sources of information.
Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Websites
 Question Why
http://www.QuestionWhy.org
North Carolina's own Question Why group organizes teens all over North Carolina to become active in tobacco prevention and control. Check out what they're up to today!
The Truth
http://www.thetruth.com
You've seen the wild television commercials, you've seen the body bags, now visit the website behind one of the most innovative smoking prevention programs today!
Get Outraged
http://www.getoutraged.com
Massachussetts' teen smoking prevention website gives you lots of reasons to Get Outraged about tobacco.
Truth
http://www.wholetruth.com
Home of Florida's SWAT (Students Working Against Tobacco) program, Truth will give you the real deal about how the tobacco industry tries to manipulate you into being a smoker
Get S.W.A.T.
http://www.getswat.com
Get Students Working Against Tobacco is a Missisipi-based teen tobacco prevention program that encourages teens to 'teach up', taking their tobacco prevention message to their parents, teachers, older siblings, and anyone else who's older than they are and willing to listen
R.A.T.
http://www.gorat.com
Reject All Tobacco is a Mississippi-based website where kids can learn about all the unhealthy things tobacco can do
Tobacco Free.org
http://www.tobaccofree.org
Sponsored by the Foundation for a Smokefree America, TobaccoFree.org aims to educate people of all ages about the dangers of tobacco use
Tobacco Companies: What are they up to?
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
http://www.no-smoke.org
The American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation has a lot of cool information on a variety of topics - including a whole big section filling you in on all of the tobacco industry's dirty tricks!
Tobacco Documents Online
http://tobaccodocuments.org/
This website allows you to browse the tobacco companies' documents online, with a keyword search, as well as the ability to browse by subject, brand, marketing type, author, and more. This particular section of Tobacco Documents Online focuses on evidence from the tobacco documents of marketing tobacco to youth, but also gives you access to the rest of the tobacco documents as well.
Tobacco Resolution.com
http://www.tobaccoresolution.com
This website provides links to the tobacco document websites for the major tobacco companies.
Philip Morris Incorporated Tobacco
http://www.philipmorrisusa.com
This is the corporate website for Philip Morris, the makers of cigarette brands like Marlboro and Virginia Slims.
R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
http://www.rjrt.com
This is the corporate website for the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, makers of cigarette brands like Winston, Salem, and Doral.
Lorillard Tobacco Company
http://www.lorillard.net
This is the corporate website for the Lorillard Tobacco Company, makers of cigarette brands like Newport and Maverick.
British American Tobacco Company
http://www.bat.com
This is the corporate website for the British American Tobacco Company, makers of cigarette brands like GPC.
Liggett Group
http://www.liggett.net
This is the corporate website for the Liggett Group, makers cigarette brands like Eve.
Quitting Smoking and Staying Smoke Free
World No Tobacco Day
http://tobacco.who.int/en/Advocacy/wntd.html
Another great day to quit smoking, May 31 is World No Tobacco Day! Visit this website for more information
QuitNet
http://www.quitnet.org
QuitNet is a large online community for people who are trying to quit smoking (or know someone who is). There are a ton of resources for people trying to quit, ways to quit, and lots of support, like chat rooms and bulletin boards on subjects like quit-smoking support and avoiding gaining weight when you quit.
Quit Tips
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/how2quit.htm
The Centers for Disease Control offer tips for quitting smoking and staying smoke free.
Quit Smoking Support
http://www.quitsmokingsupport.com
QuitSmokingSupport.com offers lots of useful articles and interactive features like chat and bulletin boards to help you quit smoking and stay smoke free.
Unhooked
http://www.unhooked.org
Unhooked offers, among other things, chat and a lively bulletin board to help you get through quitting smoking.
QuitNowNC
http://www.QuitNowNC.org
Sponsored by the Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch, the NC Medical Society, and NC Prevention Partners, QuitNowNC offers resources for people who want to quit smoking and their families and friends who want to help.
Kickin' It - Not On Tobacco
http://www.ncnot.com
Not On Tobacco (N-O-T) is a stop smoking program that can help you quit using cigarettes or reduce the number of cigarettes that you smoke. In addition, N-O-T was developed to help you improve your communication, problem solving, and stress management skills.
C.H.A.M.P.S.S.
http://www.champss.org
Children Helping And Motivating Parents to Stop Smoking offers resources to help frustrated teens help and motivate their parents to quit smoking and stay smoke-free.
Tobacco & Your Health
TIPS 4 Teens
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tips4youth.htm
The Centers for Disease Control offer a ton of information about smoking and its effect on your health, including interviews with celebrities, free stuff, and more!
He Wanted You To Know
http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml
This June 1999 newspaper article from Florida tells the heart wrenching story of a 34 year old man who died from smoking. This was his last message to the world.
Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco/finalets.html
This website gives detailed information on how Second Hand Smoke affects your health.
What am I inhaling?
http://www.smoke-free.ca/eng_issues/etschemssmokers.htm
This interactive site will calculate for you the amounts of different chemicals you are inhaling when other people smoke around you, and will tell you what those chemicals will do to your body.
Voices Against Tobacco
http://tfk.grassroots.com/voices/
Voices Against Tobacco is a living memorial to the 400,000 people who die from tobacco-related causes every year. Read their stories and the stories of those they left behind, or share your own story.
Tobacco Advertising and YOU
SceneSmoking.org
http://www.scenesmoking.org/
This American Lung Association site is a one-stop online resource for parents, teens, educators and health professionals concerned about tobacco's continuing influence on young people through movies.
The BADvertising Institute
http://www.badvertising.org/
The BADvertising Institute shows you how tobacco advertisements impact young people, and helps you learn how to debunk their deceptions. It also has a lot of really cool BADvertisements - Tobacco ads that have been changed so that they send an anti-tobacco message!
The Smoking Gun
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/tobacco/tobacco.html
This website follows the paper trail exposing how R.J. Reynolds intentionally marketed their cigarettes to young people.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
http://tobaccofreekids.org/
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids website has lots of information about how tobacco advertisements target young people, including a gallery filled with tobacco ads. |
