Links
The
Centers f or Disease Control and Prevention: Smoking/Tobacco Control
https://www.cdc.gov/health/smoking.htm
Centers for Disease Control: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (A good
site for youth, parents and educators)
https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
Monitoring the Future Study:
https://www.isr.umich.edu/src/mtf/
Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco
https://www.costkids.org/
National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids
https://www.tobaccofreekids.org/
Illinois
Coalition Against Tobacco
Buzz
Talbot's home page:
https://members.aol.com/buzz112/index.html
Leonard Jason's home page:
https://condor.depaul.edu/~ljason
Great
resource page on youth smoking prevention:
https://www.healthinsurancequotes.org/resources/smoking-prevention-for-kids/
A great guide to quitting smoking (that you Melissa):
https://www.wholesalecentral.com/n-quit-smoking-guide.html
More helpful information and resources on smoking statistics (thank you Elaina):
ACLScertification.com offer a free resource guide on how tobacco affects health,
written by physicians at UNC Chapel Hill.
https://www.aclscertification.com/pages/howtobaccoaffectshealth.html
Examples of inappropriate tobacco commercials of the 1940s to 1960s can be found at
these sites:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCMzjJjuxQI&feature=related
https://www.google.com/search?q=vintage+tobacco+ads&hl=en&qscrl=1&nord=1&rlz=1T
4ADFA_enUS445US445&biw=853&bih=461&site=webhp&prmd=imvns&tbm=isch&
tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=gNS_TtzsKsSW2AWdqO35Bg&sqi=2&ved=0CCwQsAQ
To see footage from the tobacco executive testimony, go to this site:
https://www.jeffreywigand.com/7ceos.php
For more information on the continuing epidemic of tobacco use among youth, go to this site:
https://blog.myctb.org/?p=1501
As a senior in high school, I helped craft legislation to start a research institution to study
the effects of drugs at a mock congress at the New Jersey state capital. At the time, we
knew little about the effects of these drugs, particularly LSD, on individuals. Although I
had never tried this drug during these turbulent times, I thought we needed more data
on its effects on individuals. My early efforts at activism with the writing of this legislation
and several letters I received are available in the at this site:
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bz4gyjhP7mm3UmxyUzZiQXJTQUU/edit
This link includes a video clip on the dynamics of smoking, and it shows networks from 1971
when smoking was prevalent to many years later as smoking was reduced in the general
population:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa0706154
A Quit Smoking Blog has a really helpful 30 Day Quit Guide.
https://bestelectroniccigaretteblog.com/30-day-quit-smoking-guide/
Quit Smoking Community has lots of info on smoking and its
effects
https://quitsmokingcommunity.org/
Here is a good document on "The
Benefits of Smoking Cessation"
https://www.pritikin.com/articles/the-benefits-of-smoking-cessation/
An excellent resource from Project Know:
https://www.projectknow.com/research/teens-and-smoking/
QuitDay.org, who has a great guide on quitting
smoking so that people can live longer, healthier lives and end the harm caused
by tobacco to children (https://quitday.org/quit-smoking/)
Freedom From Smoking® also supports QuitDay's cause (https://www.ffsonline.org/).
Rudy Cabrera’s https://Smokersblog.org/ (Quit Smoking Blog) provides useful resources.
Daryl Jones’ FEATURE POST on quitting smoking also can help readers - https://kickdit.com/
The article called Tobacco Resources Online - Fact
Sheets https://pacificmedicalacls.com/acls-online-library-tobacco-resources-online-fact-sheets.html
provides information and awareness, and contains very useful information about
smoking as well.