Tobacco Links

1. Factual links

   Some of the websites providing factual information on Tobacco :

   • 1.1 Some Q&As and FAQs on tobacco
   • 1.2 More information for the non-specialist
   • 1.3 Some tobacco news sites
   • 1.4 Some policy-related websites
   • 1.5 Some other websites on tobacco
2. Other Views

See also our page containing sites linking to this Digest

1. Factual links

1.1 Some Q&As and FAQs on tobacco

• Q&As on cigarette smoking and cancer by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI): www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/cancer 

• FAQs on oral health effects of tobacco products presented by the American Dental Association (ADA): www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/oralsystemic.asp 

• The Tobacco Control Archives by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reccomends a series of sites addressing issues such as general tobacco information, tobacco and health, tobacco industry, etc: www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/tcafaq.html 

1.2 More information for the non-specialist

• The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) refers to several tobacco-related topics at: www.cdc.gov/tobacco/index.htm 

• American Cancer Society (ACS) devotes a page to tobacco, covering interesting topics explained in a language for non-specialists:
  www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10.asp?sitearea=PED&level=1 

• The World Bank Group (WBG) site on Economics of Tobacco Control presents information, analysis and data on tobacco use and policies to reduce it. It covers key issues that societies and policymakers face when thinking about tobacco and its control: www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/about.asp .
• Section on smoking cessation by Health canada, containing news and articles on the subject:
  www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/smoking_cessation.asp 

1.3 Some tobacco news sites

• The Environmental Health Perspectives (EHP) journal of the U.S. National Institute of Environmental Health Science presents Environews on the topic of environmental tobacco smoke: http://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/topic/ets-smoking.html 

• The Healthfinder of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) links to recent carefully selected information and Web sites from over health-related organizations addressing tobacco and smoking:
  www.healthfinder.gov/scripts/SearchContext.asp?topic=860 
  www.healthfinder.gov/scripts/SearchContext.asp?topic=800 

• Weekly updated news on tobacco at: www.tobaccoreporter.com 

1.4 Some policy-related websites

• The World Health Organization (WHO) extensively addresses tobacco at its Tobacco Free Initiative webpages (TFI): www.who.int/tobacco/en/ 

• The DG Public Health of the European Commission presents its general policy on tobacco and provides links to legal documents, european projects and other sites addressing tobacco:
  http://ec.europa.eu/health/ph_determinants/life_style/Tobacco/tobacco_en.htm 

1.5 Some other websites on tobacco

• A US National Institutes of Health (NIH) list of links to US federal institutes addressing tobacco smoke, secondhand smoke, smoking & youth, etc:
  http://health.nih.gov/result.asp?disease_id=605 
• A South African Department of Health (DOH) guide on how to create a smoke-free workplace: www.doh.gov.za/issues/tobacco/smoke-contents.html 
• Questions and answers on tobacco advertising in the context of an advertise banning EU directive:
   http://ec.europa.eu/comm/dgs/health_consumer/library/press/press258_en.pdf

2. Other Views

Links in this section have been selected as examples of other views on Tobacco. This list of links is only a sample and it is not suggested that it is complete nor that it is fully representative of all the existing views. GreenFacts asbl takes no position concerning the views expressed in these linked documents.

Conclusions of some other recent reports

• The report of the U.S. Surgeon General on the Health Effects of Smoking (2004) documents the other adverse effects of active smoking (cardiovascular, respiratory and reproduction and fertility) in addition to the effects on cancer incidence which are covered in the IARC report. www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004 
• California EPA report on passive smoking (1997) www.oehha.org 
• WHO report on passive smoking (2000) of the Regional Office for Europe  www.euro.who.int/document/aiq/8_1ets.pdf

A site presenting and critiquing views that Tobacco poses less risks

• The UK Select Committee on Health in its report "The Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking" presents and critiques the views of the tobacco industry on the health risks www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199900/cmselect/cmhealth/27/2707.htm