- "Kobe Declaration" Calls for a Halt to the Tobacco Menace among Women and Children
- Consensus of 500 delegates urging WHO to fully integrate “special needs” of women and girls into a proposed international treaty on tobacco control.
- "You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby"
- Satirical presentation of the ad slogan shows facts and figures depicting the increase of female smokers as well as of lung cancer in women.
- A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic
- Aims to give light on the prevalence of female smokers and emphasizes on the need for action against the preventable public health epidemic.
- About.com: Smoking Cessation
- Contains personal success stories, associated disease, healthy heart tips, and related topics.
- Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction
- List includes reduced length of gestation resulting to low birth weight, perinatal mortality, stillbirths, spontaneous abortions, and fetal malformations.
- American Legacy Foundation
- Dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.
- Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
- Focuses on the tobacco industry's marketing to women and girls and the resulting increase in smoking-related health risks.
- Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco
- Lists the consequences of smoking addiction which include cardiovascular disease, lung cancer, and adverse effects on the reproductive health.
- Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women Who Smoke
- Aims to provide help to women overcome some of the problems on their use of tobacco.
- Chapter 16: Women and Smoking
- Features topics on the trend in smoking rates and death rates, as well as advertising strategies used on women.
- Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model
- Features the model-turned-advocate's essay in support of the campaign against smoking.
- Cigarette Ads Targeting Women
- Collection of smoking promotional ads targeted at women.
- Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking
- Statistical analysis shows strong evidence that cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking.
- Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes
- Points out the influence of print ads as well as Hollywood’s role in hooking up young women in the smoking habit.
- Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy
- Information on associated risks and links to learning disabilities, hyperactivity, and behavior disorders.
- Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer
- Research summary presents strong correlation of cigarette smoking to developing breast cancer.
- Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
- Emphasizes on the risks female smokers face.
- Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women
- Article examines some of the issues in the strategies of tobacco marketing to women worldwide focusing particularly on Europe.
- Facts on Women and Tobacco
- Provides facts and figures on women and tobacco focusing on smoking prevalence and special health risks.
- Independence From Smoking
- Contains resources to help a smoker quit.
- International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT)
- Global network of tobacco control specialists dedicated to achieve improved health and greater equality among women and girls in the world by eliminating tobacco use and exposure.
- iVillage: Smoking and Women
- Four-part article detailing the risks female smokers face. Also contains statistics showing the declining gender gap in smoking rates.
- Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking
- Tobacco marketing campaigns result in the increase of the number of young Japanese girls to take up smoking.
- June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women
- Fact sheet emphasizes the various damaging effects of smoking on women.
- Ladies Home Journal on Smoking
- Resources for women who want to quit the nicotine habit.
- Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls
- Essay on the need for more aggressive campaign on the fight against tobacco use by women.
- The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
- Discusses the cigarette’s transition of being a taboo to a “torch of freedom” for women.
- National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
- Coalition of organizations dedicated to increasing the number of quitting pregnant smokers.
- The New Face of Tobacco: Women
- Article describes the trend of the tobacco industry’s promotional campaign.
- OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk
- Article relates the significant danger of using smokeless tobacco.
- Philip Morris: National Expert on Women
- Document on the promotional strategy of Philip Morris through the release of a “Virginia Slims” women’s poll results to the media.
- Pregnancy and Smoking: A Lethal Combination
- Lists the reasons for pregnant women to quit smoking.
- Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
- Presents an overview on the book that covers the social history of female tobacco use, tobacco marketing strategies for women, and the psychological and behavioral dynamics of female smoking.
- Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand
- Photos and list of resources on women and smoking.
- Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
- Emphasis on the significant impact of inhaling secondhand smoke on healthy body functions.
- Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker?
- Call for pregnant smokers to quit the nicotine habit. With resources on quitting and its benefits.
- Smoking and Quitting for Women
- Promotes non-smoking through dissemination of smoking facts, negative effects of the habit, and support resources for quitters.
- Smoking and Women's Magazines: 2001-2002
- Survey examining the health and smoking-related coverage during 2001 and 2002 in 15 women's magazines evaluated various forms of smoking-related messages.
- Smoking is a Women's Issue
- Extensive resources on the tobacco industry’s aggressive campaign towards women – reports, campaign statements, figures, fact sheets, and related links.
- Smoking Is Ugly
- Christy Turlington’s anti-smoking campaign. Includes information on lung cancer awareness, quitting resources, women’s health, and FAQs.
- Smoking, Sex and Reproduction
- Fact sheet on the cigarette smoking effects on women’s fertility, sexual function, and pregnant women’s health.
- Smoking: A Guide for Teens
- Details the negative impacts of smoking and addresses issues on why teens get lured into the habit.
- Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia
- Text and graphs on the smoking habits of locals resulting to fetal injury, premature birth, and low birth weight.
- Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
- Analysis and figures on the increasing incidence of such deaths among women smokers in these countries.
- Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer
- Slides of images to be used as educational resources in the campaign against smoking for women.
- Steps to Smoking Cessation
- Presents steps and tips on quitting the habit.
- Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry
- Fact sheet on smoking-related diseases and death claims brought by aggressive campaigns on females.
- This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care?
- Article talks about the lack of concern among the watchdogs of women’s freedoms regarding the issue on smoking.
- Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
- Compilation of cigarette ads and search tools for related details.
- Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting
- Information on the gender differences in relation to smoking, ways of quitting, and nicotine replacement therapy.
- Tobacco and Women's Health
- Overview on the book’s contents which touches on health effects, advice on quitting, policy initiatives, and related issues in developing countries.
- Tobacco as a Problem for Women
- Links to media articles about tobacco and its impacts on women.
- Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, Says WHO
- News report describes the tobacco industry's aggressive campaign as cashing in on women's struggle for equal rights.
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
- Links to fact sheets on congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, miscarriage, and low birth weight.
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
- Provides facts and figures on women and smoking.
- The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes
- Article dispels the notion that light cigarettes reduce the health risks of smoking.
- Virginia SLAM!
- Women's health advocate, Leslie Nuchow, uses SLAM! concerts to keep the tobacco industry out of music.
- WHO: Why is Tobacco a Public Health Priority?
- Urges the public to be concerned as tobacco is the second major cause of death in the world.
- Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy
- CNN report enumerates the reasons women should avoid smoking.
- Women and Smoking
- Contains summary of the report, fact sheets, video links, and related resources.
- Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report
- Article discussing how the marked increase in the deaths of female smokers is prompting professional examination on the health risks involved.
- Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge
- Images and information on the worldwide campaign of cigarette smoking on women.
- Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women
- Fact sheet related to women and tobacco.
- Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks
- Commentary on the lack of articles on the dangers of tobacco use in women's magazines.
- You're Going Too Far, Baby
- Health advocates protest against the tobacco industry’s marketing onslaught.
- You've Come a Long Way...or Have You?
- Presents details on women’s magazines mixed standpoint on the smoking issue.
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