Anti-Tobacco-Use Websites
American Legacy Foundation
The American Legacy Foundation, established to reduce tobacco use in the United States as outlined in the Master Settlement Agreement, has created a web site where you can learn more about the anti-tobacco movement, see the Master Settlement Agreement's funding in action, get updates about public education efforts including the national Truth campaign and write your own story about your personal struggles with tobacco.
Cigarette Anyone?
Read first-hand accounts of the health effects of smoking from members of EFFORTS, a non-profit group taking an active role to facilitate education, treatment and, especially, a cure for emphysema and related lung diseases. Many of the contributors began smoking as kids.
CigaretteLitter.org
CigaretteLitter.Org is an informal, non-profit organization dedicated to dramatically reducing cigarette litter across the United States.
Coalition for a Healthier Ohio
The Coalition for a Healthier Ohio represents 172 organizations that have come together to support funding a statewide, comprehensive program that will reduce the death, disease and destruction caused by tobacco use in Ohio.
Consumer Federation of America Foundation
Take this pledge for your kids and protect your children from the adverse effects of secondhand smoke. Keep your home smoke free!
Doctors Ought to Care (DOC)
DOC actively mobilizes doctors and health organizations to speak out against tobacco and publicize its effects.
Foundation for a Smokefree America
This site was created by Patrick Reynolds, grandson of tobacco company founder R.J. Reynolds. It contains messages to youth and adults as well as quitting tips and a useful links page to top anti-smoking sites.
Get Outraged
Sponsored by the Massachusetts Tobacco Control Program, this site includes information from formerly secret tobacco industry documents as well as suggestions for how to get involved in the fight against the tobacco industry.
Indiana Tobacco Prevention and Cessation
Develops programs to prevent and reduce the usage of tobacco and tobacco products in Indiana.
Joe Chemo
Joe Chemo now has his own web site. JoeChemo.org is an interactive web site that allows visitors to test their "Tobacco IQ," get a personalized "Smoke-o-Scope," and send free Joe Chemo E-Cards. There is also extensive information for teachers, anti-smoking activists, health care providers, journalists, and smokers who wish to quit.
Keeping Youth Drug-Free
Outlines elements for a good relationship with your child that will help both of you discuss drugs and other dangerous activities.
Member Organizations of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
More than 130 member organizations of the CAMPAIGN. The nation’s leading health, education, religious and charitable organizations dedicated to the protection of America’s children.
National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign
The Campaign uses a mix of modern communications techniques ranging from advertising and public relations to interactive media to educate and empower young people to reject illicit drugs.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
A list of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's tobacco-related national programs and grants.
smokingisugly.com
Created by Christy Turlington, smokingisugly.com is a resource guide containing information on issues ranging from quitting smoking to facts about lung cancer.
Southern Tobacco Communities Project
The Southern Tobacco Communities Project aims to bring together community leaders in the health field, the tobacco community and community development from six southern, tobacco-growing states (Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia) through roundtable discussions.
WhiteLies.tv
Uncover the lies of the tobacco industry.
World No Tobacco Day
First held in 1988, and observed annually on May 31, World No Tobacco Day is a global event established to call worldwide attention to the impact of tobacco on public health.
Young Choices
Cancer Survivor Don Young started smoking at the early age of 14. By age 48, Don underwent a series of operations for throat cancer which saved his life, but left him unable to speak. He now uses an electrolarynx which allows him to produce a robot-like speech. Today, as a cancer survivor, Don helps young people resist tobacco. By sharing his painful experience with others, Don hopes to save many young people from the suffering and premature death that tobacco can cause.
