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EDUCATION AND PREVENTION
  • Healthy People 2020: A Framework for Ending the Tobacco Use Epidemic
    Healthy People 2020 provides a framework for action to reduce tobacco use to the point that it is no longer a public health problem for the Nation.

  • Smoke Free Movies
    Smoke Free Movies aims to sharply reduce the U.S. film industry's usefulness to Big Tobacco's domestic and global marketing - a leading cause of disability and premature death.

  • GetOutraged
    Forum for expressing opinions about smoking-related issues, memorial for those who have lost love ones, ways to get involved, secret tobacco industry documents, and facts about tobacco use.

  • Action on Smoking and Health
    A National Legal-Action Antismoking Organization

  • Action on Smoking and Health - U.K.
    Comprehensive information on all aspects of tobacco use and control; campaigns to reduce unnecessary addiction, disease, and premature death caused by smoking.

  • American Cancer Society
    National website with link to ACS agencies. Cancer information, and related news, research, and media services.

  • American Lung Association
    National website with links to local ALA agencies. Research and statistic, cessation material, press release, articles, legislative advocacy, and information on targeted groups (women, minorities, etc.).

  • American for Nonsmokers' Rights
    National lobbying organization with advocacy resources for reducing environmental tobacco smoke (public place/airports) and youth regulations; information on industry practices.

  • Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
    National organization with current tobacco news, action alerts, calendar of events, research, tobacco settlement information, and an area for kids.

  • Join Together Online(Funded by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
    Resource for communities seeking to reduce tobacco use through legislation. Contains action alerts, current news, and links to related sites.

  • SMOKESCREEN
    Hosts home pages for tobacco control organizations, with information about the organization, list of activities, e-z letters of campaigns, and job listing. Site also provides Information Alerts from the Advocacy Institute, lists of smoke -free restaurants, list of subscribers, and daily news bulletins.


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