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	The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit - http://www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org/ Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. "We help pregnant women quit smoking."
	The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes - http://wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid=2&diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1 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.
	Independence From Smoking - http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm 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) - http://www.inwat.org/ Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
	Women and Smoking - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/ 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.

	Smoking is a Women's Issue - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/ Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.
	Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women - http://www.nowfoundation.org/health/whp/whp_fact7.html NOW Foundation fact sheet.
	Smoking Is Ugly - http://www.smokingisugly.com/ Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info.
	Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy - http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
	Facts on Women and Tobacco - http://www.cdc.gov/women/natstat/smoking.htm Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

	Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO - http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384 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.
	Smoking: A Guide for Teens - http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
	"You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby" - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28829-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada.
	Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia - http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/briefs/four/ Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data.
	The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.

	Women and Smoking - http://women.americanlegacy.org/ 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.
	Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls - http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/smoking.htm Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.
	Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women - http://ash.org/dangers/women.html According to recent research.
	Tobacco as a Problem for Women - http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.
	OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer.

	Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women - http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/Pages/Smoke2-23.html Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.
	Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report - http://www.usmedicine.com/dailyNews.cfm?dailyID=24 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.
	16. Women and smoking - http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
	Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination - http://www.mothersbliss.co.uk/nine/smoke.asp Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.
	Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco - http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls.

	Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction - http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/summaries/frames/smoking-nf.html "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."
	Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer - http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctbcnc.htm Summary of recent research.
	The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/3 Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.
	Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart.
	Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm 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.

	Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function - http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523021.htm Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.
	Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco - http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).
	Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand - http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid's claim that it's taking a stand against heart disease in women.
	June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women - http://www.jrussellshealth.org/smokwomen.html Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.
	Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge - http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.

	Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry - http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/teengirl.htm Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.
	Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model - http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3152 Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer.
	Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting - http://TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com/articles/womens_health/smokingcess_4/index.shtml Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language.
	Philip Morris: National Expert on Women - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html 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".
	Ladies Home Journal on Smoking - http://www.lhj.com/home/Quit-Smoking.html Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.

	Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/113a Book review.
	Tobacco and Women's Health - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114 Book review of book of same title.
	Virginia SLAM! - http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409 Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music.
	You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World - http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-08-08/news/you-re-going-too-far-baby/ Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking = liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally.
	Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke - http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html 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.

	Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html 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
	Women and Smoking - http://www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.html Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.
	Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes - http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.html Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.
	Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks - http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking.
	ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000 - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice.

	U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s - http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news/text_ABC_smoke&mirrors.html ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.
	Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic - http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact176.html World Health Organiziation fact sheet.
	The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.
	You've Come a Long Way...or Have You? - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.415/pub_detail.asp From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing.
	Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer - http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/wgtlc/presentations.php Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options.

	Smoking and Quitting for Women - http://www.forwoman.net/faq/smoking.htm From the National Women's Health Information Center.
	Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females - http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm The National Coalition for Women against Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.
	Women and Tobacco - http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49 WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
	Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker? - http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/quit/youknow.asp 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.
	The Wrong Way to Stay Slim - http://www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking.

	Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=1728734&dopt=Citation 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."
	ivillage: Smoking and Women - http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
	Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising - http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9 You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.
	Cigarette Ads Targetting Women - 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 A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.
	The New Face of Tobacco: Women - http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.

This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care? - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10&notFound=true
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.

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