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National Organizations/Resources
Action on Smoking and Health
A national charitable antismoking & nonsmokers' rights organization providing “Everything for people concerned about smoking and nonsmokers' rights, smoking statistics, quitting smoking, smoking risks, and other smoking information.”The American Lung Association
The American Lung Association offers a variety of smoking control and prevention programs including Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU), a peer-teaching tobacco control program aimed at deterring youngsters from taking up smoking. ALA also has a smoking cessation program for teens, called Not On Tobacco, or N-O-T. For people who already smoke, the American Lung Association® offers its Freedom From Smoking® program, considered the "gold standard" of group-setting, peer-support smoking cessation programs.Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is the leading national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Smoking and Tobacco Use
The Smoking & Tobacco Use web site provides easy access to a comprehensive collection of data, data sources, publications, and products on a wide range of topics including Health Effects, Secondhand Smoke, Youth Tobacco Prevention, Tobacco Industry and Products, Smokeless (Oral) Tobacco and Smoking Cessation.National Coalition for LGBT Health:Tobacco Research and Resources
Hosting information on a national Action Plan to actively address and fight the disproportionate consumption and health burden of tobacco use in the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth and adult communities through collaboration on research, prevention, policy, and education. Includes fact sheets, helpful links.
Tobacco.org
Free resource center with up-to-the-minute headlines on tobacco and smoking-related issues. Looking for news briefs, information on law suits, mind-boggling quotes from tobacco industry leaders, or the latest in tobacco industry advertising? Look no further. This award-winning site houses extensive on-line archives of all these and more.Tobacco Control Resource Center
A division of the Public Health Advocacy Institute, The Tobacco Control Resource Center (TCRC) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve the public’s health by reducing the use of and exposure to tobacco products. TCRC advances this mission by providing legal research, litigation support, and policy analysis for tobacco control advocates throughout the world.
American Lung Association of NYS
The American Lung Association of New York State (ALANYS) works to promote lung health and prevent lung disease and is in the forefront on tobacco and environmental health issues. ANANYS’ public policy efforts have fueled the fight against Big Tobacco and they organize an e-advocacy group through which you can get involved.
Expose Big Tobacco
Provides information on how the tobacco industry reaches into our communities to normalize and promote smoking and ideas on how you can take action.
Environmental Protection Agency Smoke-Free Homes Program
Comprehensive information about the health effects of environmental tobacco smoke (secondhand smoke) and the National Smoke-Free Homes Program. Bilingual materials available.Group to Alleviate Smoking Pollution (GASP)
GASP of Colorado is a statewide non-profit organization that works to educate people about the dangers of secondhand smoke, promote smoke-free policies, and provide information to help resolve problems caused by secondhand smoke. The education center provides an extensive collection of articles, papers, and links that include Colorado's new state law, secondhand smoke, smoke-free policies, the tobacco industry, and other topics.Smokefree.net: Fighting for Smokefree Air
Web site designed to win the right to breathe smokefree air; facilitate communication among smokefree advocates; facilitate communication between smokefree advocates and key decision makers; share information about the tobacco cartel; and provide an integrated login for all websites in the SMOKEFREE.net family.
New York State Task Force for Tobacco-Free Women and Girls
A network of organizations and individuals across New York State working to end the devastating impact of tobacco-related diseases on the lives of women. Site is currently under construction, but keep an eye on this terrific resource for promoting effective programs to encourage women and girls to be tobacco-free.International Network of Women Against Tobacco
The International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT) is a network of over 1600 members in 100 different countries working toward the elimination of tobacco use and exposure among women. INWAT was founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
HEALTHteacher.com
HEALTHteacher.com is provided as an alternative approach to improving school-based health education with a comprehensive, sequential K-12 health education curriculum that consists of almost 300 lesson guides that meet National Health Education Standards. Tobacco Prevention is one of nine content areas covered in this skills-based curriculum.
www.healthteacher.comJean Kilbourne, Ed.D
Jean Kilbourne is internationally recognized for her pioneering work on alcohol and tobacco advertising and the image of women in advertising. She lectures extensively and has produced several award-winning documentary films. In Deadly Persuasion: The Advertising of Alcohol & Tobacco, she exposes the manipulative marketing strategies and tactics used by the tobacco and alcohol industries to keep Americans hooked on their dangerous products, and in Pack of Lies exposes how pernicious and deadly cigarette marketing is.
www.jeankilbourne.com
New York State's Fax to Quit Program
The New York State Smokers’ Quitline offers its Fax to Quit program for all health care providers to help their patients stop-smoking. As a confidential service, they offer counseling and other cessation-related services to patients who use tobacco products.
Don't Be Silent About Smoking
Easy-to-access information and resources to help clinicians assist their patients to quit smoking. It also provides links to the 19 Tobacco Cessation Centers funded by the Department of Health to provide free assistance to health care providers to put in place policies, practices, and procedures to deliver effective treatment for tobacco use and help their patients quit.
America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP): Tobacco Cessation & Prevention Programss
AHIP and the Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest (CHR) have developed a business case that estimates the incremental return on investment (ROI) of evidence-based smoking cessation interventions for health insurance plans, payors and employers. AHIP also manages a National Technical Assistance Office as part of a collaborative program, Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care.New York State Department of Health (DOH) Medicaid Update January 2006
Did You Know? The Medicare Prescription Drug Program began covering smoking cessation products as of January 1, 2006. For more information, see Medicaid Smoking Cessation Policy and Medicaid Recipient Stop Smoking Coverage Fact Sheet on the DOH web site.The Tobacco Dependence Program
The Tobacco Dependence Program (TDP) is dedicated to reducing the harm to health caused by tobacco use. The TDP particularly aims to provide expertise on quitting smoking for those who need it most through education, treatment, research and advocacy.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is on the front lines of tobacco prevention. They provide the tools, information, news and support you need to take an active role in the fight against youth tobacco addiction. They also provide suggestions and assistance for other projects you can undertake in your community to help keep kids tobacco-free.No Butts About It
A campaign started by three kids to help rid the earth of cigarette butt litter. They provide downloads of an awareness poster, fact sheet, and sample letter to legislators to support their campaign which is currently being used in 48 States and several countries. They also provide information on where to purchase butt disposal products to make it easier to avoid littering.Reality Check New York State
Youth Empowerment Initiative that mobilizes New York teens to refuse to allow the tobacco industry to manipulate them into smoking. They expose the shady practices of the tobacco industry in their relentless efforts to addict young people in order to replace their dying customers.
