- Action In The War Against Big Tobacco
Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do. http://www.cleanlungs.com/action/index.html - Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
Nation's oldest and largest antismoking organization takes legal action and provides information about the problems and costs of smoking. http://www.ash.org - Advocating for the Public's Health
Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care. http://www.commed.uchc.edu/healthservices/mediaadvoc/default.htm - AIRSPACE Action on Smoking and Health
British Columbia, Canada-based group of "Sworn Enemies of the Tobacco Industry" advocates for smokefree air, protection for children, and smokefree workplaces. http://airspace.bc.ca/ - Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education
Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action. http://www.alcase.org/advocacy/tobacco_activism/index.html - Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health
Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/ - Altria Means Tobacco
Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria. http://www.altriameanstobacco.com/ - Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Works to pass legislation at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and protect youth from tobacco addiction. http://www.no-smoke.org - Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program
Produces a variety of public outreach material on tobacco and smoking, including radio ads, TV commercials, posters, billboards, theater hall slides and merchandizing items. Performs policy analysis, provides training and technical assistance, and help in quitting. http://www.tepp.org/ - ASAP911Tobacco
Individual advocate in Kentucky. http://asap911tobacco.com - ASH Australia
Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places. http://www.ashaust.org.au/ - ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health
Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos. http://www.ash.org.uk/ - Big Tobacco Sucks
Campaign against Transnational Tobacco mobilizes students to use the investment power of their universities to challenge the global tobacco industry's violation of human rights, public health, and the environment; site requires Flash. http://www.bigtobaccosucks.org/ - BoycottTobacco.com
Organizes a boycott of the many non-cigarette products made by tobacco giants such as Altria and R. J. Reynolds. http://www.boycotttobacco.com/ - Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide
A comprehensive guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate by Dr. Larry Breed, DrPH covers dozens of topics and outlines activism responses to tobacco, with an emphasis on knowledge before action. http://www.tobacco.org/Resources/lbguide.html - buttout.net
Urges boycott of R. J. Reynolds products as long as company advertises in magazines with a substantial readership in the under 21 year old age greoup. http://www.buttout.net/ - Center for Tobacco Free New York
Lets you send e-postcards to tell your elected officials how to spend tobacco settlement money and stop smoking in New York State. http://www.tobaccofreeny.org - Cigarette Litter
Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns. http://www.cigarettelitter.org/ - Coalition for a Tobacco Free Pennsylvania
Provides news and information for advocates, policy analysis, a discussion forum, and searchable databases of smoking cessation programs and smoke-free restaurants in Pennsylvania. http://www.tobaccofreepa.org/ - Coalition for a Tobacco Free Vermont
The Coalition "believes that Vermonters care about clean air and the health of our fellow neighbors, friends, and family. Our goal is to empower Vermonters with information and tools to influence our state government to work toward a Tobacco Free Vermont." http://www.tobaccofreevermont.org/ - Coalition for Clean Air and Clean Lungs
"The world's first organization to address quality of air issues for residents in group housing." What you can do to protect yourself from secondhand smoke in apartments, at home, in the workplace, in public places. Also tobacco industry information, news, and analysis. http://www.cleanlungs.com/ |