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1.16. Women and smoking
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
URL:http://203.147.184.40/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm
2.Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
According to recent research.
URL:http://ash.org/dangers/women.html
3.Tobacco as a Problem for Women
Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.
URL:http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm
4.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.
URL:http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384
5.Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy
Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart.
URL:http://cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html
6.Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking.
URL:http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html
7.The New Face of Tobacco: Women
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.
URL:http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html
8.Higher death risk for women smokers
Women are twice as likely to develop an untreatable form of lung cancer than men, according to the UK's biggest lung cancer study.
URL:http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_225000/225928.stm
9.Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females
The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.
URL:http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm
10.U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s
ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.
URL:http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news/text_ABC_smoke&mirrors.html
11.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, secondhand smoke and women, and more.
URL:http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/04/ppt_pages/f_set/f_01.htm
12.Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
Book review.
URL:http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/113a
13.Tobacco and Women's Health
Book review of book of same title.
URL:http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114
14.The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.
URL:http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/3
15.Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting
Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language.
URL:http://TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com/articles/womens_health/smokingcess_4/index.shtml
16.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.
URL:http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49
17.Smoking is a Women's Issue
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.
URL:http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/
18.Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
URL:http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf
19.Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.
URL:http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523021.htm
20.Tobacco Advertising and Women
Gallery of tobacco ads, some exploiting women, some targetting women.
URL:http://users.wclynx.com/theshaws/adsmodernwomen.html?
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