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- Americans for Nonsmokers Rights Effective grassroots network fights for local measures and battles Big Tobacco, its preemption campaigns and secondhand smoke nationwide. Strangers show up in town? Look for them in ANR's Tobacco Industry Tracking Database. Want to learn how to fight preemption? Check out ANR's Protect Local Control Website. ANR is also helping local tobacco control coalitions educate restaurateurs about smokefree restaurants and bars. Check out their great brochure. Contact them for copies or to get involved in their educational campaign.
- Breath The California Smoke-Free Bars, Workplaces and Communities Program, statewide project of the American Lung Association of the East Bay. Lots of health, legislative info.
- Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education presents research on tobacco control from the University of California San Francisco and elsewhere.
- Center for Tobacco Free Kids Media-savvy group dogging Big Tobacco on the national level.
- Health Canada offers excellent coverage of secondhand smoke issues and a powerful print and video media campaign on workplace exposure. (Read a news story about the waitress, Heather Crowe, featured in the campaign.)
- Kids Involuntaryily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke (KIIS) Smokefree Restaurants Project works with state and national restaurant associations to convince them that smokefree is good for business and that they should stop working with the tobacco industry.
- Musicians for Smokefree Bars Great resource for bar owners and entertainers. Oxygen's a good thing!
- PR Watch Keeps excellent track of powerful interests' PR tricks and fronts — including Big Tobacco's. Eye-opening!
- Smoke Free Environments Law Project Michigan-centered resource can hook you up to good advice wherever you live.
- SmokeLess States Smart "National Tobacco Policy Initiative" of the American Medical Association. Fights preemption through genuine local coalitions.
- Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium provides technical assistance to state and local organizations fighting the tobacco industry.
- www.tobacco.org Digest of the latest tobacco-related news, with searchable archives.
- TOBACCOpedia Online reference site sponsored by the International Tobacco Control Network.
- Tobacco Wall timeline history of the batle between public health and Big Tobacco, with many links to other resources.
Want info about active smoking — including help to quit? Consult
your phone book for a nearby chapter of the American
Cancer Society, American
Heart Association, or American
Lung Association. Many of their local chapters are also engaged
in the fight for smokefree air.
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