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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