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This links section contains links to sites that contain information about a number of issues relating to tobacco and its use. This includes studies/research into tobacco and its health effects as well as statistics, scientific journals and wide ranging databases.

Databases

Foundations/Institutes

Health effects

Online Journals

Original studies/History

Statistics

Databases

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed/ The National Library of Medicine offers the abstracts of a huge number of articles concerning the health effects of tobacco. Useful for those in the health profession and perhaps biologists due to the scientific depth of the reports.

http://blpc.bl.uk/ "This free service allows you to browse the material held in the major Reference and Document Supply collections of the British Library. In most cases it is possible to request copies of document supply material from the Library's Document Supply Centre (BLDSC). The records are vast.

http://www.treatobacco.net/ This is a source of evidence-based data and practical support for the treatment of tobacco dependence, aimed at physicians, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, psychologists, researchers, policy makers, regulators and anyone interested in the personal and public health issues connected with tobacco use around the world. Essentially a database, it is split into five main sections,Efficacy, Safety, Demographics and Health Effects, Health Economics, Policy. Well laid out and truly extensive, this site is an important resource for those involved with tobacco. Available in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, German and Russian.

http://www.update-software.com/ A page providing access to a number of health related databases including abstracts of Cochrane Reviews, a regularly updated collection of evidence-based medicine databases, the Cochrane reviews in Spanish and other Spanish databases, the WHO reproductive health library, evidence based medicine guidelines and the cancer library. A wide range of topics are covered.

Foundations/Institutes

http://www.iarc.fr/ The International Agency for Research on Cancer's (IARC) mission is to coordinate and conduct research on the causes of human cancer, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis, and to develop scientific strategies for cancer control. Databases containing various information on different cancers are available and recent press releases are online and often concern tobacco.

http://www.uicc.org/programmes/tobacco/The International Union against cancer offers a regularly updated site with the latest news on tobacco from the UK, Europe, France and Spain a range of anti-tobacco adverts and campaigns, a range of tobacco control fact sheets in English and others in Spanish, online access to the International Journal of cancer and many other resources including an extensive links section with links to many Journals.

http://www.crc.org.uk/ Cancer research UK is a volunteer run cancer research organization and charity. The site is well laid out and offers a wealth of information on cancer and its causes. Recent reports outlining various links between smoking and cancer are available as well as much more.

Health

http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/ The website of the US surgeon general provides a number of interesting and informative reports in both English and Spanish. These cover advice for smokers and advice for health professionals working with tobacco users. Up to date US press releases are also available on this simple to use and important site.

http://www.uicc.org/programmes/tobacco/ The International Union against cancer offers a regularly updated site with the latest news on tobacco from the UK, Europe, France and Spain a range of anti-tobacco adverts and campaigns, a range of tobacco control fact sheets in English and others in Spanish, online access to the International Journal of cancer and many other resources including an extensive links section with links to many Journals.

http://www.srnt.org/ "The Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco aims to stimulate a generation of new knowledge concerning nicotine in all its manifestations -from molecular to societal. The site offers some information in German and French as well as English. Addresses of various organisations are listed and information regarding research into tobacco is given however, the material is fairly sparse and most of the site has not been updated recently.

http://www.who.ch/ The Homepage of the World Health Organization. Providing summaries of the latest health related news that occasionally relates to tobacco. With links to the other areas of the site, a site map and an A to Z this page would act as a good starting point for those just beginning a wide, health related, search for research purposes.

http://www.who.int/whr/1999/en/pdf/Chapter5.pdf The World Health Report 1999, Chapter 5, Combating the Tobacco Epidemic. This Chapter looks at the Health and Economic costs of Tobacco as well as obstacles that must be overcome by tobacco control programmes. Details are given on a number of components of tobacco control. Although a few years old and therefore slightly out of date, the content is both useful and interesting and would act as a good base for for those interested in understanding or researching tobacco issues.

http://www.healthcentre.org.uk/ This site provides information aimed at medical professionals as well as the general public. A wide range of information is offered, not all tobacco related, and a daily updated section gives health relevant articles from a number of broadsheets.

http://www.nrtc.org.uk/ The National Respiratory Training Centre is an impartial education and research establishment for health professionals which aims to improve the care of patients who suffer from respiratory or allergic disease. Educational programmes are run nationally and internationally and are accredited by the Open University.

http://www.acsh@acsh.org/ The website of the American Council of Science and Health.ACSH is a consumer education consortium concerned with issues related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, lifestyle, the environment and health. This inevitably covers a number of tobacco related issues and a number of press releases, editorials, magazine articles and publications are available online.

http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/index.htm Centres for disease control and prevention, is based in the USA and provides information on a wide range of health issues. A large number of tobacco related issues are covered and a tobacco information and prevention source is provided. A comprehensive site that should prove very useful to anyone interested in tobacco control.

http://www.lungusa.org/diseases/espanol/hhm17.html The American Lung association has a useful site that provides information in Spanish that gives reasons to smokers to quit.

http://www.lungcancer.org/ This lung cancer awareness campaign is dedicated to improving care for those with lung cancer by disseminating up-to-date and accurate information that encourages early diagnosis; shares developments in screening and treatment; and offers support to lung cancer patients and their loved ones. Containing special advice for patients, caregivers and healthcare professionals, this site could prove helpful to anyone affected or involved with issues in lung cancer.

http://www.tobaccopedia.org/ Part of the International Union against Cancer page, this 'tobacco encyclopedia' provides a useful resource on a number of tobacco issues from the social to the scientific. Many of the articles serve as references rather than in depth discussions but this is a good base for anyone researching tobacco, the tobacco industry, economics and many other areas Information Foundations/Institutes Health

http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/index.htm "Nicotine Addiction in Britain, A report of the Tobacco Advisory Group of the Royal College of Physicians from February 2000. Very interesting and wide ranging.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/closetohome/science/html/animations.html This page explains some of the effects of drugs on the brain, including nicotine, with a number or pictures and animations available to demonstrate these effects.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/ A very well designed site , presenting links to four parts of the site offering information on tobacco including a very nicely illustrated description of what nicotine does in your body. Informative but not comprehensive.

http://www.repace.com/ Repace Associates are Secondhand smoke consultants. They offer a fact sheet and a report on secondhand smoke. They also offer a number of services regarding second hand smoke.

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. Activism maybe Information Tobacco Control organisations.

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

Online Journals

http://www.jama.com/ The Journal of the American Medical Association. A regularly updated site covering a huge range of topics. There is online access to many tobacco related articles which cover a number of important areas in tobacco control including risks, social aspects, surveys and statistics of tobacco and much more. These are available for download as HTML or PDF documents and offer an abstract for each article.

http://www.bmj.org/ The British Medical Journal website has an extensive range of health related information including many articles on tobacco. It is possible to search all of the issues of the journal from 1994 onwards on this easy to use site. Of particular use is the 5 August 2000 issue (Volume 321, Issue 7257) which is dedicated to tobacco.

http://www.thelancet.com/ The famous medico-scienific magazine has a large number of articles relating to many areas of tobacco from the advertising strategies of the tobacco industry to the medical conditions caused by smoking. Free registration is necessary to access summaries of the articles but users must subscribe if they wish to read the full text version of the reports.

http://www.nature.com/ The scientific magazine occasionally publishes articles on tobacco and health. The abstracts from the many articles are available only after free registration and the article must be paid for if it is to be viewed in full.

http://www.tobaccocontrol.com/ "Tobacco Control is a quarterly scientific journal that aims to consider all aspects of tobacco prevention and control. Online all articles from 1992 to present day are available but are only free if older than 12 months. The abstracts of all articles can be viewed. The site offers a large number of extensive articles, studies and reports and would prove very useful to anyone interested in almost any area concerning tobacco, especially the more social aspects. This would be particularly helpful to anyone researching tobacco use.

http://www.neurology.org/ The online version of the official journal of the American Academy of Neurology has some articles that would be useful for those interested in health issues surrounding tobacco. A search of all the journals dated from 1965 onwards is possible.

http://www.nejm.org/ The New England Journal of Medicine has online access to many articles dated from 1975 onwards. Users are able to access all articles published no less than six months ago after taking out free subscription but cannot access the more recent articles unless they are purchased.

http://www.newscientist.com/ New Scientist magazine offers summaries of recent studies that are easy to read and understand. The articles cover many areas from the social to the scientific. An online archive containing a huge number of articles is available to subscribers. A 7 day free trial is offered.

Original Studies/History

http://users.wclynx.com/theshaws/index.html An interesting site looking at the history of tobacco advertising and usage.

Reader's Digest Chronologies/summaries/articles:

http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?if=avpidx&DOCID=1000210970/0973 Reader's Digest - Smoking and Health index 1924-1953. A list of references of past reports.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=sle75d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results THE EMERGING PATTERN OF ANTI-SMOKING CAMPAIGN. A CHRONOLOGY. A total of 12 Reader's Digest articles from July 1957 to November 1966 are included in this chronology.

http://www.pmdocs.com/getallimg.asp?if=avpidx&DOCID=2024940869/0874 CIPOLLONE V. LIGGETT GROUP: READER'S DIGEST ARTICLES 1940-1980. Detailed summaries of a number of RD stories, assembled for the Cipollone lawsuit.

http://tobaccodocuments.org/bliley_pm/24788.html#images Cigarette Smoking And Health Risks: Four Centuries of Information and Public Awareness. Date 11 Dec 1989.

Articles:

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=fzl55d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results RIIS RM (sic) Roger William;THE READERS DIGEST January 1950, p. 1-11 HOW HARMFUL ARE CIGARETTES?

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=gsx68d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results CAN THE POISONS IN CIGARETTES BE AVOIDED? Reader's digest article.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=jap01f00&fmt=pdf&ref=results Miller-L;Monahan-J;The Reader's Digest [July 1954, p. 1-6] The Facts Behind the Cigarette Controversy.

http://tobaccodocuments.org/atc/60303353.html#images Miller-LM Monahan-J [July 1957, p. 43-49] Wanted And Available Filter-TipsThat Really Filter

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=jnn55d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results MILLER LM;MONAHAN J;READERS DIGEST [January 1958, p. 25-29] NICOTINE-THE SMOKER'S ENIGMA.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=pdx31a00&fmt=pdf&ref=results Miller-LM;Monahan-J The Cigarette Industry Changes Its Mind.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=jxo95d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results RATCLIFF JD;TODAYS HEALTH;ama;reader's digest [March 1959, p. 107-110] THE GROWING HORROR OF LUNG CANCER.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=udz24f00&fmt=pdf&ref=results Miller-LM;Monahan-J [November 1959, p. 35-43] The Search For "Safer" Cigarettes.

http://tobaccodocuments.org/atc/60296091.html#images Miller-Lm; Monahan-J [July 1961, p. 45-51] Facts We Re Not Told About Filter-Tips, A Reader S Digest Report to Consumers.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=mnn55d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results MILLER LM;READERS DIGEST LUNG CANCER AND CIGARETTES. HERE ARE THE LATEST FINDINGS.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=onn55d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results MILLER LM;MONAHAN J;READERS DIGEST [August 1963, p. 91-98]THE CIGARETTE CONTROVERSY: A STORM IS BREWING.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=npo49d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results ROSS WS;UNK [Oct. '76, p. 114-118] Poison Gases in Your Cigarettes: Carbon Monoxide.

http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/cgi/getdoc?tid=lsm59d00&fmt=pdf&ref=results ROSS WS;READERS DIGEST;ROSS WS;WORLD SMOKING & HEALTH [July 1982, p. 111-114] A READER'S DIGEST SPECIAL REPORT. WHAT'S BEEN ADDED TO YOUR CIGARETTE?

Statistics

http://www.mori.co.uk MORI (Market & Opinion Research International) is the largest independently-owned market research company in the United Kingdom. The site contains a large number of polls and publications that cover many different areas, some relating to tobacco and health.

http://www.statistics.gov.uk This is the official UK statistics site. You can view and download a wealth of economic and social data. Very useful and comprehensive site that covers a huge number of areas and studies.

http://ssdc.ucsd.edu/tobacco/ The California Department of Health Services conducts surveys of attitudes, behaviors, and media exposure regarding smoking and tobacco use. A number of surveys and reports are offered and although not all are particularly recent they could still prove useful for research purposes.

http://www.fedstats.gov/ Provides access to US federal statistics generated by over 70 U.S. government agencies for public use. A very valuable resource site for professionals and includes various statistics regarding tobacco use, sale, economics etc.