Here are some other links that may be useful as you gather information about tobacco depictions in film, tobacco use, tobacco addiction and cessation.

General Lung Health Information:

www.sacbreathe.org Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant Trails has been vital to the progression of healthy lungs. The Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down! program originated at this association.

http://www.who.int/en/ The World Health Organization

http://repositories.cdlib.org/ctcre/ Center for Tobacco Control Research & Education

http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention control; environmental health, and health promotion; and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States.

http://www.paho.org/ The Pan-American World Health Organization was created to provide information about health related issues for people living in North, Middle, and South America.

http://www.alcase.org/index.html Alliance for Lung Cancer, Advocacy, Support, and Education

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/home/index.asp American Cancer Society

http://www.apha.org/ American Public Health Organization

Tobacco in the Movies:

Thumbs Up! Thumbs Down! Advocacy Manual. 2000. To order E-mail us and we'll send you copies. Be sure to include which item you want, your address and your contact information.

Scene Smoking: Cigarettes, Cinema and the Myth of Cool A 60 minute documentary on first amendment rights and social responsibility in relation to tobacco depiction. To order a copy of the film, go to http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/celebrities/scenesmoking.htm

http://www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu Smoke Free Movies aims to sharply reduce the U.S. film industry’s usefulness to Tobacco’s domestic and global marketing – a leading cause of disability and premature death.

http://www.fablevision.com/smokescreeners/ The Smoke Screeners program encourages young people to see through the smoke on the movie screen – to become Smoke Screeners.

http://whyquit.com/whyquit/notables.html A short list of famous people who have died from tobacco use.

http://www.smokefree.net/ Another list of famous people killed by smoking

http://www.iccr.org/ Interfaith Center for Corporate Responsibility is leading the movement to use shareholder resolutions to get smoking out of youth-rated films.

http://www.clevelandclinic.org/joinjoe/ Join Joe- Screen writer Joe Esterhaus uses this site as a way to get tobacco use out of the movies.

http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=8330&id3=MA& MASSPIRG- A Massachusetts group that researches smoking in movies and tobacco control.

http://www.screenit.com/ Screen It provides a comprehensive review of movies, including tobacco content.

http://www.realitycheckny.org/RCNY/ Reality Check, based out of New York, consists of teens telling Hollywood to stop doing Big Tobacco’s dirty work.

http://pages.videotron.com/abc/films-movies/ A listing of movies that do not contain smoking.

General Anti-Tobacco Information:

www.thetruth.com The Truth Campaign, whose main goal is to alert everyone to the lies and hidden practices of the cigarette companies, while giving people the tools to have a voice.

http://www.americanlegacy.org American Legacy Foundation is the national, independent public health foundation established by the 1998 tobacco settlement.

http://www.no-smoke.org Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights is the only national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers’ rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth from tobacco addiction.

http://www.essentialaction.org Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control was launched in 2000 to help support and strengthen international tobacco control activities at the grass roots level.

http://tobaccopedia.org A source for tobacco documentation, chemistry, toxicology, health effects, economic effects, tobacco supporters, and much, much more.

http://www.tobacco.org A source for the latest and hottest tobacco news and information.

http://www.who.int/tobacco/index.cfm The Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI) is a WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on the global tobacco pandemic that kills four million people a year.

http://web.gsm.uci.edu/antismokingads/ AntiSmokingAds.org presents the extensive smoking-related research of Dr. Pechmann, currently a Professor of Marketing at UC Irvine’s Graduate School of Management.

http://www.tobaccosurvivors.org/home.html These pages bring you the stories of men and women living with – and dying from tobacco – related illness. They are eloquent evidence for avoiding the use of tobacco products as well as exposure to secondhand smoke.

http://www.cctc.ca/ Canada Council for Tobacco Control

www.escapesmoking.com Contains anti-smoking verse and other resources out of Australia.

Youth Prevention:

http://tobaccofreekids.org/ The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is fighting to free America’s youth from tobacco and working to create a healthier environment.

http://kickbuttsday.org/ A program devoted to educating young people about tobacco and its effects. Several cities around the United States host a Kick Butts Day where all types of activities and games are centered on fighting tobacco.

http://www.ovx.org/ OVX stands for Our Voices Xposed. OVX is a youth-led, youth-run movement that is focused on exposing the truth about tobacco.

Media:

http://www.acmecoalition.org Action Coalition for Media Education

http://www.mediafamily.org/ Media Wise works to reduce the harmful effects of mass media on children.

Cessation:

www.smokefree.gov includes extensive online cessation assistance including an online guide to quitting, links to experts who can help you, and links to telephone support in your local area.

http://www.californiasmokershelpline.org/ an online connection to the popular 1-800-NO-BUTTS telephone program to help you quit smoking

Freedom From Smoking Online - the American Lung Association's Free Online Cessation Program