- Smoking Is Ugly
Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info.
http://www.smokingisugly.com/
- Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm
- Smoking: A Guide for Teens
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html
- Speakers Kit: Tobacco and Women
Slides ready for presentation on tobacco advertising and women, diseases caused by tobacco, myths and facts about tobacco and cancer, smoking and reproductive health, and secondhand smoke and women.
http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/04/ppt_pages/f_set/f_01.htm
- The New Face of Tobacco: Women
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html
- The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes
Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.
http://wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid=2&diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1
- This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care?
Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10¬Found=true
- Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slimds ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9
- Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO
Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384
- Virginia SLAM!
Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry out of music.
http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409
- Women and Smoking
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.
http://www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.html
- Women and Smoking
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones.
http://women.americanlegacy.org/
- Women and Tobacco
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49
- Women First - Smoking Cessation
"For women approaching midlife, smoking cessation is the single most important change you can make to enhance your life expectancy." Collection of articles on smoking and quitting for women.
http://www.womenfirst.com/healthLibrary.asp?article=40&x=12&y=12
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