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41.Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model
Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer.
URL:http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3152
42.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.
URL:http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409
43.drkoop.com: Women's Health: Smoking During Pregnancy
If you are pregnant and have not quit smoking, you are harming your child. Short article explains.
URL:http://www.drkoop.com/family/womens/pregnancy.asp?id=6231
44.Smoking and Quitting for Women
From the National Women's Health Information Center.
URL:http://www.forwoman.net/faq/smoking.htm
45.The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.
URL:http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html
46.The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.
URL:http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html
47.Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women
Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.
URL:http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/Pages/Smoke2-23.html
48.Women and Smoking
Factsheet compiled by the Missouri Department of Health.
URL:http://www.health.state.mo.us/SmokingAndTobacco/WOMEN.html
49.Women Resisting the Tobacco Industry
Paper presented at a conference.
URL:http://www.ingcat.org/html/white.html
50.International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT)
Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
URL:http://www.inwat.org/
51.Young Women and Smoking
"Each day in the United Stated about 1,500 girls being smoking. Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school graduation...Data show an abrupt increase in smoking initiation in girls under age 18 around 1967, when tobacco advertising introduced specific brands of cigarettes for women."
URL:http://www.inwat.org/young.htm
52.ivillage: Smoking and Women
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
URL:http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html
53.Women's Cigarette Market
1973 R. J. Reynolds memo discusses it marketing strategies targeting women.
URL:http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini/html/v/147/otherpages/allpages.html
54.Fatal Attraction: Lifting the Smokescreen
Offers a women's guide to stopping smoking, and information for healthcare professionals.
URL:http://www.liftingthesmokescreen.org.uk/
55.Mediascope Issue Briefs - Women and Smoking
Factsheet, all sources cited; tobacco industry promotion to women; smoking and women's health.
URL:http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/ws.htm
56.Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).
URL:http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html
57.Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination
Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.
URL:http://www.mothersbliss.co.uk/nine/smoke.asp
58.Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis
Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women."
URL:http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&uid=1728734&Dopt=r
59.The Wrong Way to Stay Slim
Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking.
URL:http://www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp
60.Women, Heart Disease and Smoking
Factsheet from NIH.
URL:http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/heart/other/hdw_smk.htm
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