Anti-Tobacco

Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, and medical costs due to smoking.

Citizens and organizations advocating policy decisions, educational and prevention efforts to address the problem of tobacco in their communities. Provides tobacco news, issues, analysis, advocacy; factsheets and policy papers.

Focuses on how tobacco settlement payments have created an incentive for states to help the tobacco industry.

Abstract of paper; concludes "in order to be successful, anti-tobacco alliances need to recognize that tobacco control is ultimately a political battle fought in public, and not a scientific debate discussed in private"; gives examples from Switzerland.

Forthcoming are tobacco and smoking fact sheets, statistics, news, projects, policies, and resources.

MPs will chose between three options to banning smoking in enclosed public spaces.

Policy research in Romania seeks to analyse the factors affecting tobacco consumption in that country.

Follows a single issue, tobacco control, through the phases of the Precede-Proceed model of health promotion.

Research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that smoking cessation programs are cost-effective.

Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens.

ANR analysis puts forward a short summary of smokefree environments as a youth tobacco protection and prevention strategy.