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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

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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

Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco

Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. [PDF]

http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf

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

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

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

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

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

Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer

Summary of recent research.

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctbcnc.htm

Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women

According to recent research.

http://ash.org/dangers/women.html

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

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

Facts on Women and Tobacco

Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

http://www.cdc.gov/women/natstat/smoking.htm

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

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/

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

June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women

Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.

http://www.jrussellshealth.org/smokwomen.html

Ladies Home Journal on Smoking

Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.

http://www.lhj.com/home/Quit-Smoking.html

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

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/

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

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

A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic

Report from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women. [PDF]

http://www.amsa.org/pdf/womentobaccoprimer.pdf

Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.

Book review.

http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/113a

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

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

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

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 and Quitting for Women

From the National Women's Health Information Center.

http://www.forwoman.net/faq/smoking.htm

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic

World Health Organiziation fact sheet.

http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact176.html

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/

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/

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/

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

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

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 Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising

You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims 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

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

Tobacco and Women's Health

Book review of book of same title.

http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114

Tobacco as a Problem for Women

Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.

http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.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

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

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

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

Virginia SLAM!

Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music.

http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409

16. Women and smoking

Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.

http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm

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/

Women and Smoking

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.

http://women.americanlegacy.org/

Women and Smoking

Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.

http://www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.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

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

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

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women

NOW Foundation fact sheet.

http://www.nowfoundation.org/health/whp/whp_fact7.html

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

"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

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. (May 14, 2001)

http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3152

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. (April 11, 2001)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10&notFound=true

The New Face of Tobacco: Women

Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. (February 14, 2001)

http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.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. (August 15, 2000)

http://www.villagevoice.com/2000-08-08/news/you-re-going-too-far-baby/

OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk

Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. (May 9, 2000)

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm

Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy

Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart. (November 8, 1999)

http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.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. (March, 1999)

http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.415/pub_detail.asp

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 (March 9, 1998)

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. (January 8, 1998)

http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.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. (November 2, 1995)

http://www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp

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