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Women and Smoking: Tobacco Explained: 8. Big Tobacco and Women ...what the tobacco industry's confidential documents reveal, ASH UK Paper

Cigarettes: Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.

Girls and Tobacco: Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.

16. Women and smoking: Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.

A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic: Report in PDF format from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women.

ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000: Many women rely on magazines for information about health. Yet past studies of popular women’s magazines (including studies by the American Council on Science and Health [ACSH]) have found little or no coverage of the serious health consequences of smoking, the leading preventable cause of deat...

Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction: Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation.

Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco: Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).

Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke: Catching our Breath: A Journal about change for women who smoke, explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.

Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model: Supermodel Christy Turlington has graced the cover of so many magazines,her face has become almost synonymous with beauty and fashion. In a presentation adapted from a speech she gave to the Society for Women's Health Research, Christy speaks, not as a famous model, but as a super role model for...

Cigarette Ads Targetting Women: A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.

Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes: Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes

Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy: New evidence cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.

Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer: ,

Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women: According to recent research.

Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females: Quit smoking with the help and support of About.com Smoking Cessation. Get the quit smoking support and information you need at our active smoking cessation support forum. Meet people just like you who are working to quit smoking permanently. Visit the smoking cessation website and find out how y...

Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women: Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.

Facts on Women and Tobacco: Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

Higher death risk for women smokers: Women are twice as likely to develop an untreatable form of lung cancer than men, according to the UK's biggest lung cancer study.

Independence From Smoking: National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking.

International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT): Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.

ivillage: Smoking and Women: Research womens health issues and information at iVillage, the Internet for Women. Get your womens health questions answered and look up your symptoms with the iVillage symptom finder.

Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking: Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking

June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women: June Russell's Health Facts is an online resource for health education.

Ladies Home Journal on Smoking: Quit smoking information from Ladies' Home Journal

Marketing Cigarettes to Women - Fact Sheet: CDC pamphlet covers history of cigarette advertising strategies, current advertising strategies, sponsorships and promotions, and global advertising strategies.

OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk: Preliminary results suggest that using smokeless tobacco may dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer, Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers reported today.

Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls: Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.

Philip Morris: National Expert on Women: Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the most authoritative chronicler of women's issues

Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination: When you light your cigarette in pregnancy, you're not the only one who smokes. Your baby does to!

Recruiting Women Smokers: The Engineering of Consent: State of Oregon: Tobacco Prevention Program

Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.: Book review.

Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand: Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid's claim that it's taking a stand against heart disease in women.

Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function: UniSci is a newsletter of science stories from the major research labs. Headlines link to in-depth articles and editorials. UniSci keeps scientists and others up-to-date on current research.

Sluts against Butts: Features women bent on holding the tobacco companies responsible.

Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker?: Benefits of quitting for you and your baby, resources that will help you quit smoking and stay quit, and how to contact Smoke-Free Families.

Smokey Imagery and the 7 Deadly Myths: Oxygen delivers edgy, intelligent entertainment for women and the men who love them

Smoking and Quitting for Women: From the National Women's Health Information Center.

Smoking and Reproduction: ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and long-term growth.

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic: World Health Organiziation fact sheet.

Smoking is a Women's Issue: Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.

Smoking Is Ugly: Smoking Is Ugly

Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women: Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher.

Smoking: A Guide for Teens: Providing education, clinical care, research, and health care information for adolescent girls and young women

Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia: Smoking effects on mothers and babies in West Virginia,

Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer: Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options.

Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry: Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.

The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women: Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.

The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit: Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. We help pregnant women quit smoking.

The New Face of Tobacco: Women: Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility: Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking: Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.

The Wrong Way to Stay Slim: The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice.

This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care?: Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups.

Tobacco Advertising: Gallery of tobacco ads, some exploiting women, some targetting women.

Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising: You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slimds ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.

Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting: Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language.

Tobacco and Women's Health: Book review of book of same title.

Tobacco as a Problem for Women: ,

Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO: Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report.

Torches of Freedom: Themes of Women's Liberation in American Cigarette Advertising; a paper presented at the Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association Convention. In PDF.

U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s: ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.

Virginia SLAM!: Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims’ record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry out of music.

Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy: Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart.

Women and Smoking: Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.

Women and Smoking: American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones.

Women and Smoking: A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links.

Women and Tobacco: WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.

Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report: The marked increase in the number of women who die each year from tobacco products has led the surgeon general to call smoking-related disease among women a full-blown epidemic.

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women: NOW Foundation document

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women: NOW Foundation, Inc.

Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks: media, survey, smoking, reporting, journalists, articles about smoking, cigarettes, lung cancer, coverage

Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge: Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.

You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World: You’re Going Too Far, Baby

You've Come a Long Way...or Have You?: National Health Council, American adults, health news, American women, women's magazines, sources of health information, health topics, medical news, risks of smoking

You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby: Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada.

Zyban may be better than nicotine to help women snuff tobacco habit: Recent research finds Zyban is more effective than nicotine patches or gum for women quitting smoking.