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Tobacco

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ASH Scotland: Scottish voluntary organisation concerned with tobacco control policies. Action based research projects, statistics, and fact sheets on topics such as passive smoking, tobacco smuggling, and advertising are among the resources offered.
Author: ASH
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: documents
ASH: Action on Smoking and Health: Organisation campaigning for clear, effective legislation to reduce and eventually eliminate the death and disease caused by tobacco. ASH aims to create a hub for tobacco control information and advocacy. Includes a series of facts sheets on the various consequences of tobacco use and a brief guide to UK agencies and resources involved in smoking prevention.
Author: ASH
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: documents
Coffin Nails: The Tobacco Controversy in the 19th Century: Offers extracts from the American newspaper Harper's Weekly criticising various aspects of tobacco use in 19th century America. Six major topics are covered, including dangers of tobacco, tobacco as a symbol of bad behaviour, young smokers, cigarettes, and 'healthful' smoking products.
Author: Harpweek
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: articles
Economics of Tobacco Control: World Bank report examining governmental considerations regarding tobacco control. Describes current smoking trends, and examines the costs and consequences of measures such as raising tobacco taxes, banning advertising, making cessation therapies more widely available, and prohibiting smoking in public places. Also offers a collection of country-specific smoking data.
Author: World Bank
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: document
HabitSmart: Information about addictive behaviour, coping with urges and cravings, reducing smoking and more.
Author: Westermeyer, Robert
Subjects: addiction, tobacco
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: documents
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library: Digital library containing over 10 million previously secret documents from the tobacco industry, dating from the late 19th century to the present decade, and relating to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities. The searchable collection includes videos, litigation documents, court transcripts and podcasts.
Author: University of California, San Francisco
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: document collection
Nicnet: Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco Research: A range of nicotine and tobacco related resources including news and research updates, links to health sites. Includes the psychiatry of addiction. Emphasis is against smoking, but with links to sites covering the arguments of the pro-smoking movement.
Author: Arizona Nicotine and Tobacco Network
Subjects: addiction, tobacco
DeweyClass: 616.8
Resource type: documents, news
Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Tobacco Industry: Collection of images from the tobacco industry spanning the late 1920's to the early 1950's, illustrating numerous advertising campaigns by companies that attempted to mask the hazards of smoking and allay public fears regarding the safety of cigarettes. Each image is acompanied by an analysis from the authors, and the collection can be browsed by theme, brand or slogan.
Author: School of Medicine, Stanford University
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: image collection
Science of Tobacco: Presented in three key sections, this resource examines the farming, manufacturing, and health effects of the tobacco plant. The effect of culture, age, and gender on smoking habits are considered.
Author: Liberty Science Center
Subjects: tobacco
DeweyClass: 583.952
Resource type: documents, images
Smoke Free World: Directory of businesses including restaurants, cafes, and travel facilities, which operate under a strict no smoking policy. Addresses are given for smoke free venues in Africa, Asia-Pacific, Caribbean, Central America, North America, South America, and Europe. Resources on how to stop smoking are provided, and various musicians express their views on the habit. Businesses are offered listings free of charge.
Author: 1999 SmokeFreeWorld
Subjects: health promotion, tobacco
DeweyClass: 613
Resource type: directory
STIC: State Tobacco Information Center: Originally a public information service providing details of legal proceedings by US state attorney general, making the tobacco industry accountable for aspects of its advertising and marketing. This resource now serves as an archive of the proceedings providing documents by state, access to the current tobacco litigation and control, and the 'Tobacco Retailer Responsibility Initiative'.
Author: State Tobacco Information Center
Subjects: law enforcement, tobacco
DeweyClass: 343.076
Resource type: document collection
Tobacco Company Strategies to Undermine Tobacco Control Activities at the World Health Organisation: Report, published in July 2000, describing methods which the WHO believe international tobacco companies have used to undermine the credibility and project work done by the organisation in tackling tobacco and health related issues.
Author: World Health Organisation
Subjects: global health, tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.29
Resource type: document
Tobacco Control Archive - Brown and Williamson Collection: The documents consist primarily of scientific studies on the addicitve nature of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke. The materials have been the subject of a suit in San Francisco Superior Court in which Brown & Williamson sought to permanently remove the disputed material from the Library. After further legal discussion the California Supreme Court rejected the appeal made by the company allowing UCSF to release the documents.
Author: University of California San Francisco
Subjects: addiction, tobacco, united states law
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: documents
Tobacco Free Inititative: Details of various tobacco or health activities which aim to promote the concept of tobacco-free societies and lifestyles as the positive social norm, and to attain a worldwide decrease of tobacco use and the diseases caused by it. Includes a range of press releases and fact sheets.
Author: World Health Organization
Subjects: lung cancer, tobacco
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: documents, news
Truth in Advertising: Collection of cigarette advertisements from the 1940s and 1950s. Each image displays the polemic war and post-war eras, providing an insight into how social consciousness has changed with regard to the tobacco industry.
Author: Wooden, John A., Chickenhead Productions
Subjects: advertising, tobacco
DeweyClass: 659
Resource type: image collection