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Tobacco
 Websites presented in alphabetical order CDC's TIPS 
 The Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) has more than 27 million pages of tobacco industry documents made public by state lawsuits, now searchable full-text in several databases. Also included are Surgeon Generals' Reports, tobacco-related news, research reports, educational materials, guides on how to quit smoking cigarettes, and links to organizations. Tobacco Control Highlights displays statistics selected by state. TIPS 4 Kids and TIPS 4 Teens provide facts, videos, booklets, artwork, magazines, and links. The Smoking and Health Database and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) site are also searchable from TIPS. http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ Topics: Business & Consumer Law, Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries Last updated Dec 19, 2000 Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL)
Contains "more than 10 million documents (50+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities." Offers basic, advanced, and expert searches of the document text and index fields (such as author, title, date, named persons and organizations) describing each document and its use in litigation, along with extensive search help documents. From the University of California, San Francisco. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries, Plants by Name Last updated Mar 10, 2009 Not a Cough in a Carload: Images From the Tobacco Industry Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking
This intention of this exhibit "is to tell ... the story of how, between the late 1920s and the early 1950s, tobacco companies used deceptive and often patently false claims in an effort to reassure the public of the safety of their products." View dozens of advertising images by brand or by theme (such as doctors smoking, brides smoking, inhaling, digestion, and calming nerves), and read slogans. From the Lane Library, Stanford School of Medicine. http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html Topics: Advertising & Marketing, Industries Last updated Nov 4, 2008 Permitted Additives to Tobacco Products
This "list consists of additives to cigarettes, cigarette papers, roll-your-own (RYO) tobaccos, cigars and pipe tobacco, permitted for use in tobacco products marketed in the United Kingdom." Charts include common names, synonyms and biological origins of additives, and maximum amounts. From the British Department of Health. http://www.advisorybodies.doh.gov.uk/scoth/technicaladvisorygroup/additives.htm Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries, Plants by Name Last updated Jun 22, 2004 Search for a Safe Cigarette
Companion site to the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) "NOVA" episode that "chronicles the tobacco industry's decades long effort to create a 'safer' cigarette." Interactive features cover cigarette design, attempts to remove toxins from cigarettes, nicotine and the brain, and combustion basics. Includes a teacher's guide, related resources, and program transcript. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries Last updated Jan 11, 2004 The Tobacco Atlas
This 2002 publication provides an overview of tobacco consumption and promotion around the world. Includes facts and statistics on topics such as a history of tobacco usage, male and female smoking, health risks, passive smoking and children, deaths, costs to the economy and to smokers, tobacco manufacturing and companies, advertising, research, legislation limiting smoking areas, litigation, and more. From the World Health Organization (WHO). http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries Last updated May 17, 2007 Tobacco Control Archives
A searchable collection of "papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California." From the Kalmanovitz Library and Center for Knowledge Management, University of California, San Francisco. http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries Last updated Aug 15, 2004 Tobacco Factfile
This searchable and browsable international database provides statistics and data about tobacco from peer-reviewed journals, scientific publications and monographs, and governmental reports. Topics include economics, health, policy, the tobacco industry, and regional statistics. Data can be downloaded into a citation manager package such as Reference Manager or ProCite. Also available in French, German, and Spanish. From the Tobacco Control Resource Centre, British Medical Association. http://www.tobaccofactfile.org/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries, Plants by Name Last updated Mar 26, 2003 tobaccopapers.com: UK Tobacco Industry Advertising Documents Database
"Search, view and download over 650 documents from the UK tobacco industry's main advertising agencies ranging from 1994 to 1999. ... [Search] to see examples of letters and memos sent between tobacco companies and their advertising agencies as they planned their campaigns to promote cigarettes, cigars and rolling tobacco to people in the UK." Also includes case studies and related links. From the Centre for Tobacco Control Research, United Kingdom. http://www.tobaccopapers.com/ Topics: Advertising & Marketing, Business, Correspondence, Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries, Nonfiction by Genre Last updated Jan 28, 2004 World No Tobacco Day
Information about this awareness event, "celebrated around the world every year on May 31. ... [It] informs the public on the dangers of using tobacco, the business practices of tobacco companies" and other tobacco topics. Find publications and other material related to the current year's theme and past World Tobacco Days back to 2000. Available in several languages. From the Tobacco Free Initiative of the World Health Organization (WHO). http://www.who.int/tobacco/communications/events/wntd/en/ Topics: Diseases & Conditions, Drugs & Medications by Type, Industries Last updated Jun 1, 2008 |
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