Subdirectories of Organizations:
Websites on Organizations: Action on Smoking and Health (ASH UK) Pressure group and registered UK charity, lobbying for a national programme to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases. Excellent collection of links and resources. Focus on Europe American Cancer Society: Tobacco and Cancer Information about the harmful effects of tobacco, quitting tips, smoking legislation, and risks for children and teens. American College of Chest Physicians It's the chest physician, the cardiac specialist, or the oncologist, that breaks the prognosis to the family. This website goes to the response of the medical community to preventable disease and death. The American Legacy Foundation Promoting tobacco-free generations; vision is to become the preeminent authority in tobacco prevention by funding cutting edge research, marketing and education programs that tell the truth about tobacco use. The Cancer Council of New South Wales: The Tobacco Web Fact sheets on the history of smoking, secondhand smoke, young people, women, quitting, cancer, and other health issues. Georgia Alliance for Tobacco Prevention Committed to creating a healthier tomorrow where fewer children become addicted to tobacco, fewer people are exposed to secondhand smoke, and tobacco users can find the help they need to quit and remain tobacco-free. The Heart Foundation Queensland: Tobacco Control Information on smokefree lifestyles, smoking versus other causes of death, effects of secondhand smoke on the heart, and holding the tobacco industry accountable. International Union Against Cancer Cigarette smoking is the greatest avoidable cause of disease and death in the world. This program aims to change attitudes to tobacco use in society and to promote a strategy to eradicate tobacco production, sales, promotion, and use. Conferences, tobacco control factsheets, publications, news. Koop Institute The C. Everett Koop Institute at Dartmouth has projects on tobacco, nicotine, addiction, public health. Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board Tobacco news, tobacco control efforts of the organization. Ontario Medical Association: Tobacco Issues Papers on secondhand smoke, tobacco industry, stop-smoking medications, smokefree workplaces, cigarette package labelling. Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago Respiratory Health Association of Metropolitan Chicago mission is to promote healthy lungs and fight lung disease through research, advocacy, and education. SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness Trains survivors of tobacco-related illness to speak with children and teens in schools and community groups about smoking and the effects of tobacco products. Smokefree England Official site with details of the Smokefree legislation introduced in England on July 1st 2007. smokefreeVCU.org Smokefree organization at Virginia Commonwealth University; site features smokefree stories, quit help, posters on smoking and quitting, behavioral strategies for success in beating nicotine. Survivors and Victims Empowerment Project The Survivors and Victims Empowerment program identifies, trains and works with tobacco survivors and acts as a resource for groups in North Carolina. Youth listen and learn when a survivor of a tobacco-related illnes shares their story. Tackling Tobacco Programs and information for students, teachers, and health care professionals about tobacco, from Texas A&M. Tobacco Control Resource Centre Working with medical associations across Europe to educate doctors, help patients, and inform public policy on tobacco. Tobacco Dependence Program Dedicated to reducing the harm to health caused by tobacco, through education, treatment, research and advocacy; a program of the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Cessation guidelines for individuals and clinicians; tobacco-free policies; chemical dependency and nicotine; consultation and training services. Tobacco Free Initiative World Health Organization provides information on tobacco's health impact, secondhand smoke, economics, youth, industry conduct, women and tobacco, and advocacy for tobacco policy change. Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium TTAC builds capacity to achieve effective tobacco prevention and control programs and policies, by providing information and technical assistance. Tobacco use in British Columbia Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. Summary of the "number one preventable cause of death in British Columbia, killing more than 5,800 people and costing the provincial government hundreds of millions of dollars annually." The Tobacco Web - The Cancer Council NSW Covers the history of smoking, smoking in Australia, smoking and cancer, secondhand smoke, women and smoking, the tobacco industry, smoking and the environment. tobaccofreedom.org Education, news, research, and analysis. Trans-Atlantic Conference on Tobacco Sponsored by the Koop Institute, a group of health care professionals at Cambridge University and at Dartmouth Medical Center met to discuss tobacco policy, research, and prevention/treatment strategies. VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control Conducts research and undertakes policy development work designed to advance tobacco control efforts in Australia and internationally. This site provides information about the centre and its research programs as well as links to important repositories of knowledge on tobacco control both in Australia and Internationally. It is designed for use by researchers, potential researchers, policy makers and advocates.
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