- "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.
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28829-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
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- 16. Women and smoking
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm
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- 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.
http://www.amsa.org/pdf/womentobaccoprimer.pdf
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- 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."
http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/summaries/frames/smoking-nf.html
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- Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf
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- Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).
http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html
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- Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke
Written by women for women; 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.
http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
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- Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model
Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer.
http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3152
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- Cigarette Ads Targetting Women
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=women&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=55&submit.y=17
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- Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis
Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=1728734&dopt=Citation
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- Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes
Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.html
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- Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm
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- Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer
Summary of recent research.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctbcnc.htm
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- Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
According to recent research.
http://ash.org/dangers/women.html
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- Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females
The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.
http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm
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- Coverage of Smoking in Women's Magazines
A review of 13 magazines across 5 months finds they dispense a lot of health advice but say little about smoking. Over that same period, those magazines ran over 300 cigarette ads.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp
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- Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women
Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.
http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/Pages/Smoke2-23.html
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- Facts on Women and Tobacco
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/christy/women.htm
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- 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.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_225000/225928.stm
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- 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.
http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm
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- 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.
http://www.inwat.org/
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- ivillage: Smoking and Women
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html
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- Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html
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- June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women
Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.
http://www.jrussellshealth.com/smokwomen.html
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- Ladies Home Journal on Smoking
Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.
http://www.lhj.com/home/Quit-Smoking.html
(Added: Tue Apr 04 2006 Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0)
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