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21.Women's Community Cancer Project
WCCP presents facts about smoking, the tobacco industry, and women.
URL:http://wccp-cancer-project.org/sickening.html
22.Independence From Smoking
National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking.
URL:http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm
23.Scientist Deplores Philip Morris' "Woman Thing" Music Campaign as Latest Enticement to Young Girls
A public health expert and other prominent speakers deplore "Philip Morris' latest move to entice young girls to smoke: the "Woman Thing" music campaign where girls get "free" CD's by buying two packs of Virginia Slims cigarettes.
URL:http://www.acsh.org/press/releases/womanthing.html
24.ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke?
Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking.
URL:http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0803/advice.html
25.ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000
Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice.
URL:http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/tobacco2001.html
26.You've Come a Long Way...or Have You?
From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing.
URL:http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/wms_0399.html
27.A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic
Report in PDF format from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women.
URL:http://www.amsa.org/pdf/womentobaccoprimer.pdf
28.Virginia Slims Press Conference
Public health and ethnic leaders assembled to expose Philip Morris ads targeting ethnic women.
URL:http://www.apiahf.org/programs/apiten/virginia_slims.html
29.Women and Smoking
Chapter in a book on tobacco in the UK.
URL:http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld8.html
30.Smoking and Reproduction
ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and long-term growth.
URL:http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact07.html
31.Tobacco, and Women and Young People
Chapter from a book by the British Medical Association examines women and smoking.
URL:http://www.bma.org.uk/tcrc.nsf/4723e4b3bbc9362e802566e300360f8e/e9649e91b76c48178025688f0052751b?OpenDocument
32.Smoking's a Drag for Women
Article from the Toronto Sun about smoking cessation.
URL:http://www.canoe.ca/Health9902/07_linton.html
33.Facts on Women and Tobacco
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
URL:http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/christy/women.htm
34.Women and Smoking
A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links.
URL:http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr_forwomen.htm
35.Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge
Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.
URL:http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm
36.Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
URL:http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm
37.Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy
Webcast video to help pregnant women stop smoking.
URL:http://www.cicatelli.org/aboutcai/women/smokingcessation.htm
38.Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes
Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.
URL:http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.html
39.Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular
URL:http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html
40.Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.
URL:http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
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