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Anti Smoking campaigns.

http://www.nosmokingday.org.uk/ The UK based charity provides year round information on giving up smoking but is centered around a one day high-profile event (second Wed in March). An e-mail motivation and tips service is offered and there are a number of facts and figures given to help educate the smoker about the dangers of tobacco use. Advice is provided for those not thinking about giving up, those who are as well as those trying to give up, people who have stopped and people who want to help someone else stop.

http://www.airinitiative.com The air initiative website The AIR initiative identifies and promotes practical techniques to resolve the public smoking issue. Perhaps useful to those interested in looking at passive smoking and for companies/businesses that would like to find out the benefits and technicalities of making their premises smoke free. However, this site does not make all the information on passive smoking available and many of the 'solutions' offered would not always prove as effective as is claimed.

http://www.smokecharter.co.uk/ The smoke charter website is concerned with ideas revolving around passive smoking in public places. Aimed at owners of companies and businesses, especially in Scotland, who are considering making their premises smoke free but don't know the facts and how to implement the change. However, this site does not make all the information on passive smoking available and many of the 'solutions' offered would not always prove as effective as is claimed.

http://www-tabac-net.ap-hop-paris.fr This French site has information on a number of anti-tobacco advertising campaigns and events in France. Information is available on ideas for tobacco control and policy regarding tobacco.A list of the permanent services they offer are given and include tobacco control ideas aimed at young people,databases of diagrams and reports, information on nicotine addiction and much more . Links to other tobacco related pages are provided. Not available in English.

http://www.c3.hu/~dvema Smoking or Hungarian Health foundation. This page is available in Hungarian and English. It offers information that relates to a number of tobacco issues and their current campaign projects but there really isn't much content on the English version of the page.

http://health21.hungary.globalink.org/Health 21 Hungarian Foundation. Available in both Hungarian and English. The site mainly covers anti-tobacco campaigns and initiatives dating from 1996 to the present. Relevant not only to Hungary but to the rest of Europe. Links to a number of reports are provided.

http://www.smokefreeoxfordshire.org.uk/ The website of the Oxfordshire Alliance on smoking issues. A clearly laid out site with up to date news articles reporting tobacco issues and outlines of anti-smoking campaigns in Oxfordshire. Also included is a list of restaurants in Oxfordshire that are smoke free. Activism Anti Smoking campaigns.

http://www.smokefreeleicester.org.uk/ The Smoke Free Alliance has been set up in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and aims to raise awareness and provide information on issues related to tobacco control, smoking and health. The site is well presented and clearly describes many issues in tobacco covering anti-tobacco campaigns, health issues, economic issues,passive smoking, cessation, statistics and more.

http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/index.html A site that aims to encourage activism towards tobacco. Providing a lot of information about the tobacco industry, loads of tobacco adverts from around the world and details of recent campaigns.

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Non-smokers' rights.

http://www.smokefree.co.uk/ This site lists hotels, guesthouses, B&B's and restaurants in Britain that operate a no smoking policy. A brilliant resource that is easy to use.

http://uen-ro.globalink.org/ The Movement for Defending the Rights of Non-smokers-(AER PUR) is a Romanian organization. The site does not seem to have been updated recently and provides very little information.

http://www.nsra-adnf.ca/ The nonsmokers rights association website is part of the Smoking and Health Action Foundation. The site is kept fairly up to date and offers reports on the ill effects of tobacco use and the tobacco companies. Available in French and English.

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Tobacco control organizations.

http://www.ash.org.uk/ The Action on Smoking and Health website offers many tobacco fact sheets covering a variety of issues, some useful statistics, a well updated press release section, explanations of various tobacco policies, information concerning the tobacco industry and advice on quitting smoking. An interesting and user friendly site.

http://www.ashscotland.org.uk/ The Scottish branch of Action on Smoking and Health. The site offers a wide range of information that is reasonably up to date. Covering current issues in tobacco control, issues in the parliaments of Scotland, Westminster and the European Parliament. Many other areas are covered including cessation, economics, inequalities and some statistics are also given. Information is available on the anti-smoking drug Zyban. An extremely useful site to anyone interested in tobacco issues.

http://ash.org/ Action on Smoking and Health is geared toward tobacco issues in the USA. The site has a number of useful links, the latest news on tobacco online and medical advice regarding smoking. Available in German, Spanish, French and Italian

http://www.smoke-free.ca/ Physicians for a smoke free Canada, a national health organization. presents a well laid out site with an approach definitely more anti-smoking than anti-smoker. The site offers advice on how to give up as well as informing those who want to keep smoking ways in which they can protect others from their smoke. A number of fact sheets, tobacco industry campaigns, counter campaigns and governmental policy regarding tobacco are provided as well as a powerpoint presentation 'So what if I smoke?'

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org The campaign for tobacco free kids is a website that is aimed at preventing children starting smoking as well as creating an awareness of various government policies and tobacco company methods of luring children into tobacco use. A number of articles are available that cover a range of areas including passive smoking, dangers of low tar cigarettes and much more. Also online is information regarding their latest campaigns. A very informative site.

http://www.ingcat.org/ The International Non-Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco's website. This fairly sparse site gives information that would be useful to organizations. interested in becoming involved in tobacco control. A few basic outlines of some issues in tobacco control are given and some fact sheets are available in English or French. The site is not regularly updated and therefore does not contain the latest news or issues concerning tobacco.

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/reduction-tabagisme Available in French and English (although there are differences between the two sites), Health Canada run a page with a number of useful publications available online, some as .pdf files. These cover issues such as women and tobacco and passive smoking as well as much more. Information on some current policies to tobacco is given and various statistics are also available. Some anti tobacco video clips are also online. Advice is available for teachers and explanations of current campaigns are given. An interesting site with some useful resources.

http://www.inwat.org/ The International Network of Women Against Tobacco offers a wealth of information regarding tobacco and its dangers. Although most information is relevant mainly to female smokers much is offered that is wider ranging. There are many reports all available on the website and a some information is given by country. The site would be particularly useful to students, female smokers and organizations. that would like to widen their understanding of tobacco related issues that surround women. The site does not seem to be regularly updated.

http://www5.who.int/tobacco/ "The Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) is a WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on the global tobacco pandemic. This page give information on the latest news relevant to this project as well as a number of recent press releases.Excellent and wide ranging with information regarding health, passive smoking, tobacco policy and economics as well as many other areas, this easy to use page is extremely useful to anyone with a desire to learn more about tobacco and tobacco control.

http://www.who.int Available in the official languages of the World Health Organization. (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish) This page details the meetings of the Intergovernmental negotiating body and gives documentation from the meetings of the working group, both parts of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control. Good for looking at past and present issues in tobacco control.

http://www.marketing.strath.ac.uk/ctcr/ The Center for Tobacco Control Research at the University of Strathclyde aims to look at the Marketing and Advertising of the Tobacco industry. Some news, press releases, outline of current research and a few reports are available on this site. The material available is good but there is very little.

http://www.no-tobacco.org/ This page has not been updated for sometime and has no recent or relevant information of its own but does have a good links section giving access to tobacco control pages in 17 European countries.

http://www.ensp.org/ The European Network for Smoking Prevention aims to develop a strategy for coordinated action among organizations. active in tobacco control in Europe. The full site is available in English and French. Outlines of past project results are given and a few reports, available in a number of languages, are available online. A good links section lists sites from many different European countries. Much information is available on a number of tobacco issues in Europe. Activism Tobacco Control

http://www-tabac-net.ap-hop-paris.fr This French site has information on a number of anti-tobacco advertising campaigns and events in France. Information is available on ideas for tobacco control and policy regarding tobacco.A list of the permanent services they offer are given and include tobacco control ideas aimed at young people,databases of diagrams and reports, information on nicotine addiction and much more . Links to other tobacco related pages are provided. Not available in English

http://www.tobaccofacts.org/ An excellent website from the British Columbia Ministry of Health. In an attempt to prevent children from taking up smoking, parts of the site are aimed at children, parents and teachers with many resources including a magazine and posters that explain and display reasons why tobacco is bad for you. Other sections deal with issues and policy in relation to the tobacco industry and provides links to information relevant to this. Advice is also available for smokers who are considering quitting. Lots of factsheets on tobacco are available covering a number of areas including the history of tobacco use. Really worth a visit if you are interested in tobacco control, especially amongst children. Activism Tobacco control organizations.

http://www.getoutraged.com/ The Massachusetts department of public health run this very well presented website. User friendly, this site is easy to use and provides up to date tobacco related news, tobacco facts, campaigns, quotes from tobacco industry documents, a notice board where readers can post their views, advice on how to become involved in tobacco control and an online memorial for people who have dies from smoking related disease. Although the information is not particularly in depth the site provides a good base of knowledge for those interested in tobacco control.

http://www.roycastle.org/ The Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation is one of only two lung cancer specific charities in the world wholly dedicated to defeating the disease. The site offers information on scientific research, campaigns, advice for sufferers and for those who would like to quit smoking.

http://www.smokefreeleicester.org.uk/ The Smoke Free Alliance has been set up in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and aims to raise awareness and provide information on issues related to tobacco control, smoking and health. The site is well presented and clearly describes many issues in tobacco covering anti-tobacco campaigns, health issues, economic issues,passive smoking, cessation, statistics and more.

http://www.globalink.org/ The International Tobacco control network offers a range of tobacco related information from around the world. A number of publications are available online. Also, descriptions of how various tobacco related statistics have been interpreted are given.

http://www.ncth.ca/NCTHweb.nsf The National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health is a Program of the Canadian Council for Tobacco Control. The site is kept well updated and has sections relating to Cessation, Denormalization, environmental tobacco smoke, Legislation, Prevention, Taxation and the Tobacco Industry. Other more general information is given and a number of good resources are offered. The site describes the fundamentals of all the topics covered and then goes more in depth describing case studies and research methods. An extremely useful site, based mainly on Canadian statistics. Available in English an French.

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