Helpful Organizations and Web Sites

• AltriaMeansTobacco
  Help for researchers, community activists, and the public to develop counterstrategies in the face of the Philip Morris-Altria public relations ploy.



• American Legacy Foundation
  National organization to reduce teen smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke.



• Americans for Nonsmokers Rights
  Effective grassroots network fights for local measures and battles Big Tobacco, its preemption campaigns and secondhand smoke nationwide.



• Breath
  The California Smoke-Free Bars, Workplaces and Communities Program, statewide project of the American Lung Association of the East Bay. Lots of health, legislative info.



• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
  Media-savvy group confronting Big Tobacco on the national level. Updates on national, state, global anti-tobacco initiatives and more.



• Cardiovascular Research Institute, UCSF
  CVRI performs cutting edge research that illuminates cardiovascular and pulmonary biology and disease and to train future leaders of these fields.



• Centers for Disease Control Office on Smoking and Health
  OSH is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.



• Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCSF
  Housed within one of the nation's top biomedical research universities, the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center brings together hundreds of researchers and clinicians dedicated cancer research.



• Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, UCSF
  UCSF Cardiology has a distinguished tradition of treating and researching the full range of heart diseases.



• Essential Action
  Clearinghouse helps overseas groups counter tobacco marketers.



• Famous People Killed by Smoking (PDF)
  Actors, directors, musician, athletes and others celebrities who died early because they were smokers.



• Health Canada
  Excellent coverage of secondhand smoke issues and a powerful print and video media campaign on workplace exposure.



• Institute for Health Policy Studies, UCSF
  IHPS is a health research unit established by the President and Regents of the University of California.



• Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIIS)
  Smoke-free Restaurants Project works with state and national restaurant associations to convince them that smoke-free is good for business and that they should stop working with the tobacco industry.



• Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group
  Research and action on smoking in movies and tobacco control.



• Our Voices Exposed (OVX) Butts of Hollywood
  Vermont teens fighting back against Big Tobacco and Hollywood, including with their own movie trailers.



• PR Watch
  Keeps excellent track of powerful interests’ PR tricks and fronts — including Big Tobacco’s.



• Reality Check
  New York teens tell Hollywood to stop doing Big Tobacco's dirty work.



• Scene Smoking
  Reviews of smoking in current movies along with ideas for activism.



• Smoke Free Environments Law Project
  Michigan-centered resource that provides good advice for wherever you live.



• Smoke Free Movies
  This award winning web site opens secret industry files, names names, and gives you all the facts you need to protect yourself, your family, and your community against the tobacco industry.



• TheTruth.com
  National Truth Campaign designed to tell the truth about the tobacco industry.



• www.Tobacco.org
  Digest of the latest tobacco-related news, with searchable archives.



• TOBACCOpedia
  Online reference sponsored by the International Tobacco Control Network.



• TobaccoScam
  How big tobacco uses and abuses the restaurant industry.



• The University of California, San Francisco Online Library



• WHO Tobacco Free Initiative
  TFI is a WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on the global tobacco pandemic that kills 4.9 million people a year.

Want info about active smoking — including help to quit? Consult your phone book for a nearby chapter of the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, or American Lung Association.

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