Tobacco Websites

This section offers links to selected tobacco-related websites. A brief description of the entity's self-described mission and/or goals is provided. Inclusion of a website link does not imply any relationship to the UMTRN, and this list is not intended to cover all tobacco-related websites. If you are aware of an important site that the UMTRN may wish to include, please contact us with the URL and we will consider adding it.

(Note that some sites logically fit more than one of the categories below. For example, many sites included under “Tobacco Control Organizations” also regularly provide “Tobacco News & Information.” We have categorized sites by what seemed to us their most defining feature.)

Tobacco News & Information

    Essential Information: Tobacco & Trade
    Essential Information is a not-for-profit organization founded by Ralph Nader which is involved in a variety of projects to encourage citizens to become active and engaged in their communities. This page focuses on trade- related tobacco issues and links.

    Mayo Clinic
    Click on "Tobacco & Health Information" links

    Monitoring the Future.Org
    An ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults

    Multi-State Settlement with the Tobacco Industry (full text)
    National Association of Attorneys General full documentation on the Master Settlement Agreement

    Tobacco Control Supersite
    University of Sydney archives of tobacco industry documentation and research teams, and information relevant to smoking prevention and control in Australia

    Tobacco.Org
    Website devoted to Tobacco News and Information

    UCSF Center for Tobacco Control, Research & Education
    Offers diverse educational and research opportunities including postdoctoral fellowships, graduate research positions, and training for public health advocates and selected international visitors who wish to learn about the use of tobacco industry documents as public health tools. Our work spans tobacco control policy, health effects of secondhand and active smoking, and other areas.

    World Health Organization: Health Topic - Tobacco
    The World Health Organization, the United Nations specialized agency for health , sponsors this page which provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic

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Government Organizations

    CDC Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS)
    This is the first public data release of the Global Youth Tobacco Survey (GYTS). Since 1999, GYTS has been completed by over 1.4 million students in 133 countries. On September 27, 2004 , the GYTS Collaborative Group released data collected in 1999 for 12 countries in 6 WHO regions. T he GYTS was developed in late 1998 and initiated in 1999 to assist countries in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating their comprehensive tobacco control programs to protect youth from tobacco use.

    CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) serves as the federal government's primary agency for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and health education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States. The CDC's Office on Smoking and Health is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation among youth and adults, protecting nonsmokers from secondhand tobacco smoke, and eliminating tobacco-related health disparities.

    Environmental Protection Agency
    EPA's mission is to protect human health and the environment, including assessments of the impact of smoking. This page links to a fact sheet on the health effects of secondhand smoke exposure

    Federal Trade Commission
    The government entity that works to ensure that the nation's markets are vigorous, efficient, and free of restrictions

    Health Canada - Tobacco
    Canadian government health site, with a mission to reduce disease and death among Canadians and to directly impact smoking effects on the Canadian population

    Michigan Department of Community Health's Tobacco Section
    The State of Michigan's up-to-date, comprehensive tobacco control website

    NCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
    National Cancer Institute provides personalized information to smokers about their own risks

    Smokefree.Gov
    Created by the National Cancer Institute, this is intended to help people quit smoking through a variety of measures

    USDA Tobacco Briefing Room
    Main source of economic information and research from the USDA on US tobacco crop

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Tobacco Control Organizations

Voluntary and Professional Societies

Cessation Sites

Tobacco Companies

Pro-Tobacco Sites

Journals and Magazines

Sites with Multiple Additional Tobacco Links

    Joe Chemo
    Features adbuster spoof of Joe Camel

    Open Directory Project on Tobacco
    The largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors

    Smoke-Free Environments Law Project
    Statewide project providing information, consultation, and advice for businesses, local units of government, and individuals in Michigan on policies and practices to protect employees and the general public from harmful effects of environmental tobacco smoke

    Smoking from All Sides
    Includes links from many perspectives of smoking

    Tobacco Litigation Documents
    UCSF Library tobacco document website provides many links to a variety of tobacco litigation materials, from the U.S. Justice Department lawsuit against the tobacco industry to various types of state and regional litigation.

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Tobacco Document Links

Miscellaneous

    Monitoring the Future (Youth Tobacco Use Data)
    An ongoing study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students, college students, and young adults

    Roswell Park Cancer Institute
    The documents contained in this collection discuss all aspects of packaging and pricing of cigarettes, including the impact of prices and excise taxes on sales of tobacco products. Also included are documents that discuss legislative and regulatory lobbying efforts on the part of the tobacco industry to undermine new packaging/ pricing, and excise tax measures.

    Smoke-Free Ordinances (American for Nonsmokers' Rights)
    Local control is at the heart of our broader goal of educating the public about the health effects caused by secondhand smoke and changing attitudes regarding smoking in ways that harm other people

    The BADvertising Institute
    Doctored-up tobacco ads to make them honest

    TobaccoWiki
    TobaccoWiki is an online research project to which anyone can contribute. Like Wikipedia, the collaborative, online, free encyclopedia, TobaccoWiki is a collaborative project. The purpose of Tobaccowiki is to make it easier to find information about tobacco industry behavior, and to reveal what has been learned about the industry through its documents.

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