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Want
to learn more? You can find additional information about antismoking research,
current antismoking campaigns, and more just by visiting the following:
The Surgeon General's
Report for Kids about Smoking
(http://www.costumesupercenter.com/csc_inc/html/static/btarticles/
thesurgeongeneralsreportforkidsaboutsmoking.html)
Speers Society
(http://www.speerssociety.org/stop-smoking-cigarettes.html)
Preventing Youth relationship abuse.
Quit Smoking Now! The new public health focus of SpeersSociety.org
including tips, Advice and Support for Those Seeking to Quit.
American
Legacy Foundation
(http://www.americanlegacy.org)
The ALF is the national, independent public health foundation established
by the 1998 tobacco settlement. Legacy is dedicated to reducing tobacco
use in the United States with major initiatives reaching youth, women,
and priority populations through grant awards, research initiatives, marketing
campaigns, training programs, and collaboration with national and local
partners.
Centers
for Disease Control Health Topic: Tobacco
(http://www.cdc.gov/health/tobacco.htm)
The CDC is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health
and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information
to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships.
CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention
and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education
activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United
States.
National
Institute on Drug Abuse
(http://www.nida.nih.gov)
Recent scientific advances have revolutionized our understanding of drug
abuse and addiction. The majority of these advances, which have dramatic
implications for how to best prevent and treat addiction, have been supported
by NIDA. NIDA supports over 85 percent of the world's research on the
health aspects of drug abuse and addiction. NIDA supported science addresses
the most fundamental and essential questions about drug abuse, ranging
from the molecule to managed care, and from DNA to community outreach
research.
Tobacco
Control Journal
(http://tc.bmjjournals.com)
Tobacco Control is a quarterly scientific journal launched in 1992 to
consider all aspects of tobacco prevention and control.
Tobacco-Free
Kids
(http://www.tobaccofreekids.org)
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is fighting to free America's youth
from tobacco and to create a healthier environment. The Campaign is one
of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives ever launched to
protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to secondhand smoke.
Nicotine &
Tobacco Research Journal
(http://ntr.oxfordjournals.org/)
Nicotine & Tobacco Research is one of the world's few peer-reviewed
journals devoted exclusively to the study of nicotine and tobacco. It
aims to provide a forum for empirical findings, critical reviews, and
conceptual papers on the many aspects of nicotine and tobacco, including
research from the biobehavioral, neurobiological, molecular biologic,
epidemiological, prevention, and treatment arenas.
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