Health

Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.

A national network of Black tobacco-control and health promotion activists.

Anti-tobacco ID tags, T-shirts, posters, buttons, magnets, wall signs, bookmarks, headbands, and the now-obligatory mouse pads.

Art depicting anti-smoking messages.

Factsheets on tobacco, secondhand smoke, the tobacco industry, and cigarette sales.

Collection of stories on tobacco from the Washington Post.

Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction.

Tech Law Journal summary of bills pertaining to tobacco sales and ads on the Internet.

Medical emphasis; factsheets, clinical trials, prevention/screening, news, organizations, statistics, particular populations.

Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.

Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute materials covers history and consequences of tobacco use.

NOVA episode on nicotine, addiction, and tobacco products.

Topic in MEDLINE's medical encyclopedia covers effects, chemical components, diseases caused, quitting tobacco, with 4 poster-quality illustrations.

Collection of stories from the BBC.

Searchable database contains bibliographic citations, abstracts, and detailed indexing for over 11,000 articles, news stories, and other materials regarding the tobacco industry, clean indoor air campaigns, and other tobacco policy issues.

Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to tobacco; includes China's Tobacco Wars; Addicting the Young; The Tobacco Lobby; Fighting for Smoke-free Skies; tobacco economics.

Entire issue of Multinational Monitor devoted to the 1997 proposed deal with the tobacco industry.

Tobacco information resources ranging from the costs to society to the effects of secondhand tobacco smoke.

Article features public health worker who challenges the conventional view of smoking as an individual problem, and makes the case for tobacco as a societal health problem.

U.S. legal-action antismoking organization. Resources include information on health effects, quitting, advocacy programs and techniques, smoking statistics, and U.S. antismoking groups.

Advocacy group and center for conducting research, education and training to increase public awareness of the effects of tobacco on older persons and to reduce smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke by older persons. Includes fact sheets with data about smoking among older persons, and information specific for older persons about tobacco-related health problems, smoking cessation, and tobacco settlement funds.

National Institute on drug abuse report on nicotine covers addiction, extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine works, effects of long-term nicotine exposure, treatment of nicotine addiction, gender differences in smoking.

Dedicated to exposing tobacco industry activity in Texas and around the globe.

Publications on tobacco include analysis of industry documents, and reports on industry influence in government.

Resources on nicotine addiction from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Includes hundreds of papers, news stories, clinical reviews, letters, debates, and editorials about health effects and public policies.

Factsheets and reports on tobacco prevention, clean in door air, costs of tobacco products, youth tobacco use, and county-level studies; most in PDF or Word format.

Evaluation of substances by scientists from the National Toxicology Program has listing that includes Environmental Tobacco Smoking, Tobacco Smoke, and Smokeless Tobacco.