General links
The American Legacy Foundation is a national, independent, public health foundation located in Washington D.C. and is committed to working with other organizations that are interested in decreasing Americans' use of tobacco. The website offers tobacco facts, information on how to become involved in tobacco use prevention and tobacco control, and media information. It links to numerous quit-smoking programs and contains a message board and a calendar of events.
The American Cancer Society's website contains an extensive resources on the nature of cancer, its causes, risk factors and treatment options. The site can be localized to your state of residence.
The Foundation for a Smoke-free America is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating people of all ages about smoking and tobacco use. It was founded by Patrick Reynolds-grandson of the tobacco company founder, R.J. Reynolds-who has turned against the tobacco industry. You can read brief descriptions, view his motivational speeches, or send away for a copy of a video produced for grades 7-12. The site has helpful quit tips and ways to initiate a community event.
The National Cancer Institute's website has extensive cancer resources including news, fact sheets, cancer screening information, publications, reports, statistics, clinical trials and a cancer information phone service (1-800-4-CANCER). The site has a special section of resources for scientists that include funding opportunities, training programs and technology programs.
Dyspnea Center of Excellence is a joint health initiative of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and harvard School of Public Health. The Dyspnea Center is dedicated to helping patients who suffer from respirtory 'Shortness of breath', also called 'breathlessness' or dyspnea is a common symptom of lung or heart disease.
Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program (MTCP): The Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program is working in your neighborhoods to improve the environmental smoke regulations, provide education and prevention for youth, and to provide smokers with support for quitting.
The Massachusetts Health Promotion Clearinghouse provides free health prmotional materials for Massachusetts residents and health and social serivice providers in the Commwealth. Funded by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, the Claeringhouse develops and distributes health promotion materials on various health topics.
Quit-smoking Resources
TRY-TO-STOP, sponsored by the MA Department of Public Health, offers the QuitWizard-an interactive tool to help smokers by providing individualized plans to quit. The site also presents success stories, smoking-related facts, e-cards to support someone who is trying to quit, resources to links for smoking cessation, nicotine replacement therapy information, and websites that offer information in Spanish.
Quitnet, sponsored by Join Together, a national resource for communities working on substance abuse and gun violence, is based at the Boston University School of Public Health. This site offers personalized services to help you quit smoking, such as methods, tools, guides, email support, and an opportunity to join a quit-forum. The online store offers gum, patches, and books on smoking cessation for purchase. The website contains an interactive tool to help smokers quit by providing an individualized quit- smoking plan. The site has a directory so you can search for quit-smoking programs in your state.
Center for Tobacco Cessation serves as the source of the best available science on tobacco cessation and works with national partners to expand the use of effective tobacco dependence treatments.
The CTC seeks opportunities to influence the adoption and implementation of the recommendations of Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence Clinical Practice Guideline and The Guide to Community Preventive Service: Tobacco Use Prevention and Control by the public health, clinical, and business sectors.
Tobacco-free advocacy
Action on Smoking and Health is the oldest and largest national legal-action anti-smoking organization that offers daily updates on current tobacco news, legal forms, and information to help you protect your rights related to the problems and costs of tobacco.
Tobacco Free Mass Coalition advocates for funding and policies that support tobacco prevention and reduction of the public's exposure to secondhand smoke.
Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC) is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting organizations in building and growing highly effective tobacco control programs. national grassroots organization whose purpose is to challenge corporate abuse and increase corporations' accountability around the world.
Smoke Free Action Network offers local and congressional alerts on hot topics. You can act on these alerts from the site by drafting and sending a letter to your legislator directly from the website. The site also has a "work in progress" partial listing of tobacco control organizations across the country that is searchable by state.
Smokescreen is an action-oriented network on tobacco prevention and control. It offers newsletters, discussion forums for advocacy and networking in tobacco control, and alert lists on a wide variety (nearly 100) of tobacco issues.
Links for youth
Peer Learship - Prevetning Tobacco The Medical Foundation is a nationally recognized leader in youth development and peer leadership training. Peer leaders are young people who make a commitment to promoting healthy behavior in their communities, particularly among other young people. TMF's innovative peer leadership training programs engage young people in the learning process and encourage self-discovery within the context of their own personal experience and communities. After completing peer leadership training, young people educate their peers about health and prevention issues through a wide range of creative and effective strategies.
The Truth campaign is the largest national youth-focused anti-tobacco education campaign ever. It is designed to engage teens by exposing Big Tobacco's marketing and manufacturing practices, as well as highlighting the toll of tobacco in relevant and innovative ways
Tobacco Free Kids, sponsored by the National Center for Tobacco Free Kids, is both parent & youth friendly. It provides information on federal, state and global initiatives and has comprehensive resources on special reports, news, research and fact sheets surrounding tobacco. A "global death clock" on the site continuously tallies the number of youth who have started smoking in 2001, then compares it to the statistic on how many will die from their addiction. The site offers current ad campaigns of tobacco companies; you can search the database by country, company, brand and type.
Smoke Free Movies is a project of Stanton Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California San Francisco. The site aims to uncover the story on how "Big Tobacco" uses the movie industry to promote and sell their cigarettes.
Tobacco Related Health Disparities
Asian Pacific Partners for Empowerment and Leadership (APPEAL) is a national network of organizations and individuals working towards social justice and a tobacco-free Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community.
The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT). LCAT's mission is to combat alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino communities. LCAT is unique since it is the only Latino national organization dedicated solely to reducing the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco in the Latino community through research, advocacy, policy analysis, community education, training and information dissemination.
National African American Prevention Network serves as a national organization dedicated to facilitating the development and implementation of comprehensive and community competent tobacco control programs to benefit communities and people of African descent.
Links on nicotine addiction
The National Institute on Drug Abuse's (NIDA) site is comprehensive, current, and has separate sections for professionals, parents, and children, including research reports and a Teacher's Guide. The site also contains a special feature section called "Mind Over Matter" that encourages young people in grades five through nine to learn about the effects of drug abuse on the body and the brain.
The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) has information specialists available to assist you in locating information and resources. They can also be reached by phone at 1-800-729-6686. The site is comprehensive, very current, and easy to navigate.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention site is comprehensive and current. Resources on the site include publications, the Surgeon's General Report, quit tips, educational materials, health databases and celebrity endorsements.
Nicotine Anonymous is a fellowship of people helping each other live their lives free of nicotine. The website offers tips for the process of quitting smoking, as well as suggestions for those who are concerned about someone who smokes.
Tobacco control news
The Tobacco Law & Policy Project's website provides comprehensive, up-to-date tobacco control information including the legal and policy issues surrounding tobacco.
Tobacco.org provides a daily news service, information, and alerts on tobacco control issues. The website has a timeline and history of tobacco use around the world. The site also offers assistance for smokers trying to quit.
Research papers and community statistics
The Department of Public Health's site provides resources to find information on your community. Sections include demographics, housing characteristics, geography, education, government, transportation, culture and recreation.
The Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program's site offers fact sheets on Cigars, ETS, Smokeless Tobacco (Chewing Tobacco), Smoking in Restaurants, a Summary of State Tobacco Laws, Youth Access to Tobacco and Youth Tobacco Use.
The Massachusetts Department of Education provides statistics on schools and their demographics, programs and services.
Access to Resources for Community Health (ARCH) is an electronic health information center that is a partnership between Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), the MGH Community Health Associates, the Massachusetts Prevention Center serving Greater Boston at the Medical Foundation, and the Chelsea Health Department. The site offers a tutorial on accessing health information online, provides access to medlineplus, plus extensive resources from libraries that are searchable by subject.
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