Facts on Women and Tobacco
- Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
- http://www.cdc.gov/women/natstat/smoking.htm

Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand
- Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid's claim that it's taking a stand against heart disease in women.
- http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html

You've Come a Long Way...or Have You?
- 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.
- http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.415/pub_detail.asp

ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000
- 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.
- http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp

Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer
- Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options.
- http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/wgtlc/presentations.php

"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

The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
- Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. "We help pregnant women quit smoking."
- http://www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org/

Ladies Home Journal on Smoking
- Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.
- http://www.lhj.com/home/Quit-Smoking.html

Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker?
- 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.
- http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/quit/youknow.asp

Women and Smoking
- 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.
- http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/

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

Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer
- Summary of recent research.
- http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctbcnc.htm

Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
- You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slimds ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.
- 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

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

Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia
- Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data.
- http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/briefs/four/

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

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

16. Women and smoking
- Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
- http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm

The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes
- 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.
- http://wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid=2&diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1

Smoking: A Guide for Teens
- Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
- http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html

Smoking Is Ugly
- 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.
- http://www.smokingisugly.com/

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women
- NOW Foundation fact sheet.
- http://www.nowfoundation.org/health/whp/whp_fact7.html

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

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

Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report
- 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.
- http://www.usmedicine.com/dailyNews.cfm?dailyID=24

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

Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
- Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.
- http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523021.htm

OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk
- Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer.
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm

Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks
- Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking.
- http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html

Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination
- Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.
- http://www.mothersbliss.co.uk/nine/smoke.asp

Virginia SLAM!
- Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tob
- http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409

U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s
- ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.
- http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news/text_ABC_smoke&mirrors.html

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

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

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
- Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
- Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html

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

The New Face of Tobacco: Women
- Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.
- http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html

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

Smoking is a Women's Issue
- Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.
- http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/

Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting
- Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language.
- http://TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com/articles/womens_health/smokingcess_4/index.shtml

Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls
- Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.
- http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/smoking.htm

Philip Morris: National Expert on Women
- 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".
- http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html

The Wrong Way to Stay Slim
- Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking.
- http://www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp

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

Women and Tobacco
- WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
- http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49

Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
- 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.
- http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm

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

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

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

You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World
- 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.
- http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0032/otis.shtml

Smoking and Reproduction
- ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility, pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's hea
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact07.html

Tobacco as a Problem for Women
- Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.
- http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm

The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
- Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/3

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

Smoking and Quitting for Women
- From the National Women's Health Information Center.
- http://www.forwoman.net/faq/smoking.htm

Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry
- Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.
- http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/teengirl.htm

Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO
- 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.
- http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384

Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge
- Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.
- http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm

Tobacco and Women's Health
- Book review of book of same title.
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114

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/

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic
- World Health Organiziation fact sheet.
- http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact176.html

Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
- According to recent research.
- http://ash.org/dangers/women.html

Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
- Book review.
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/113a