- A Smokefree World - Personal page of Robert Starkey.
- Action In The War Against Big Tobacco - Letters, press releases, and correspondence advocating for a tobacco free society. Emphasis on what ordinary citizens can do.
- Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) - Nation's oldest and largest antismoking organization takes legal action and provides information about the problems and costs of smoking.
- Adbusters: Philip Morris Uncommercial - Features Quicktime movie of an upcoming uncommercial by Adbusters, questioning Philip Morris's right to exist.
- Advocacy Info: Tobacco - Information from the American College of Cheest Physicians on tobacco advocacy.
- Advocacy Institute: Tobacco Control Project - Supports research, education, communication, training and advocacy for tobacco control and a smoke-free society.
- Advocating for the Public's Health - Slide presentation on "using media advocacy to cut through tobacco's smoke and mirrors" was developed by the University of Connecticut, Department of Community Medicine and Health Care.
- Advocating for Tobacco Policy Change - Pamphlet developed by the Praxis Project provides resources for smokefree advocates.
- AIRSPACE Action on Smoking and Health - British Columbia, Canada-based group of "Sworn Enemies of the Tobacco Industry" advocates for smokefree air, protection for children, and smokefree workplaces.
- Alliance for Lung Cancer Advocacy, Support, and Education - Nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with lung cancer improve their quality of life provides resources for smokefree advocates: legislative news and alerts, events, speakers, and calls for action.
- Alliance of Boulder County on Tobacco and Health - 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.
- Altria Means Tobacco - Site provides resources to help researchers, community activists, and the public develop counterstrategies to the Philip Morris name change to Altria.
- American Lung Association Action Network - How to get involved to support clean, safe, air, and healthy lungs, with policy change, strong legislation, and advocacy.
- Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights - Works to pass legislation at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and protect youth from tobacco addiction.
- Arizona Tobacco Education and Prevention Program - Produces a variety of public outreach material on tobacco and smoking, including radio ads, TV commercials, posters, billboards, theater hall slides and merchandizing items. Performs policy analysis, provides training and technical assistance, and help in quitting.
- ASAP911Tobacco - Individual advocate in Kentucky.
- ASH Australia - Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places.
- ASH-UK - Action on Smoking and Health - Resources for advocates include tobacco history, factsheets, schools resources, presentation resources, discussion, policy analysis, and an extensive analysis of the tobacco industry based on industry internal memos.
- Big Tobacco Sucks - Campaign against Transnational Tobacco mobilizes students to use the investment power of their universities to challenge the global tobacco industry's violation of human rights, public health, and the environment; site requires Flash.
- BoycottTobacco.com - Organizes a boycott of the many non-cigarette products made by tobacco giants such as Altria and R. J. Reynolds.
- Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide - A comprehensive guide to the Internet for the Tobacco Control Advocate by Dr. Larry Breed, DrPH covers dozens of topics and outlines activism responses to tobacco, with an emphasis on knowledge before action.
- buttout.net - Urges boycott of R. J. Reynolds products as long as company advertises in magazines with a substantial readership in the under 21 year old age greoup.
- Center for Tobacco Free New York - Lets you send e-postcards to tell your elected officials how to spend tobacco settlement money and stop smoking in New York State.
- CHOWK: Thwarting Big Tobacco - Describes national and multi-national tobacco promotion in Pakistan such as slick TV cigarette ads, and calls for a response.
- Cigarette Litter - Organization dedicated to drastically reducing the amount of cigarette litter through educational campaigns.
- Citygobo2 - the truthful alternative to Citygobo - Exposes www.Citygobo.com which is run covertly by British American Tobacco; explains the history, purpose, and funding of Citigobo.
- Coalition for a Smoke-Free City - A broad-based coalition fighting for smokefree workplaces in New York City.
- Coalition for a Tobacco Free Pennsylvania - Provides news and information for advocates, policy analysis, a discussion forum, and searchable databases of smoking cessation programs and smoke-free restaurants in Pennsylvania.
- Coalition for a Tobacco Free Vermont - The Coalition "believes that Vermonters care about clean air and the health of our fellow neighbors, friends, and family. Our goal is to empower Vermonters with information and tools to influence our state government to work toward a Tobacco Free Vermont."
- Coalition for Clean Air and Clean Lungs - "The world's first organization to address quality of air issues for residents in group housing." What you can do to protect yourself from secondhand smoke in apartments, at home, in the workplace, in public places. Also tobacco industry information, news, and analysis.
- Connecticut Stop Tobacco-Save Kids - Site is dedicated to wipe out tobacco use by kids in 10 years or less.
- Countering Big Tobacco's Lies and PR -- Creatively - Collection of humorous, hard-hitting, innovative and inspiring counter-advertising examples and ideas from around the world.
- Developing Coalitions for Tobacco-Free Youth - Why tobacco is a community issue; forming a coalition; developing the coalition's membership and expertise; planning for action; communicating with the community.
- DontPardonBigTobacco.org - Allows anyone concerned about the tobacco industry's deadly practice of marketing to kids to send an instant fax to President Bush telling him NOT to weaken the government's lawsuit against the tobacco companies.
- Essential Action: Taking on Tobacco - Background papers, analysis, and resources for smokefree advocacy including workshops, factsheets, letter writing campaigns, and pairing tobacco control groups in the US and Canda with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.
- Framework Convention on Tobacco Control: World Health Organization - Advocates for strong global action to control the spread of tobacco.
- Frontline: Interview with Stanton Glantz - Covers the Brown and Williamson papers, how they got to Glantz, what we've learned from them about the tobacco industry, how the industry tried to intimidate Glantz and UCSF to suppress them and why UCSF stood up to the industry where ABC and CBS did not.
- GASP of Colorado - Smokefree dining database, advocacy, and lots of educational articles.
- Get Outraged - "Tobacco is the largest single cause of premature death in the developed world, responsible for about 30% of all deaths among persons 35 to 69 years of age." Dedicated to "exposing tobacco industry lies and deceit and helping ordinary citizens get involved in the fight against Big Tobacco."
- GLOBALink - The International Tobacco Control Network - A central place for all tobacco-control advocates. GLOBALink is a clearinghouse on tobacco: News bulletins, Discussion groups, List servers, free web-hosting, free listserver.
- Health Canada: Tobacco - Information from Health Canada on smoking and tobacco use. Reports, statistics, studies, news releases, and regulations.
- Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco - Pulls together information on tobacco, nicotine and addictdion, secondhand smoke, media advocacy, youth, tobacco additives, and women and tobacco.
- INFACT - National grassroots organization founded in 1977, best known for its successful Nestle and GE boycott campaigns. Features information on the tobacco industry, explodes the myths pushed by tobacco industry PR (e.g. "smoking is an adult custom"), and invites action on a new boycott of the tobacco industry.
- 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.
- International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco - News, resources, events, facts and figures, materials.
- Jeffrey Wigand, Ph.D. - Tobacco whistleblower whose story is featured in the movie 'The Insider'
- Join the Joe Chemo Campaign! - Official site of Joe Chemo can provide the Joe Chemo costume for qualified groups and individuals to smoke up an antismoking event.
- KidsBeforeProfits.org: Protect Kids Not Big Tobacco - Lets you send a letter to your elected officials asking them to take action to protect kids from tobacco.
- Kraft-Philip Morris Boycott - Brandeis student group advocates for boycott of Kraft products on campus.
- Licensed to Kill, Inc. - Parody of cigarette industry marketing makes points about how the industry makes its money.
- Louisiana Cancer and Lung Trust Fund Board - Committed to the prevention of addiction to tobacco.
- Making it UNCOOL - Article by Robert Worth in The Washington Monthly. He thinks we should make fun of tobacco products.
- MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on 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.
- MASSPIRG: Tough On Tobacco - Tobacco control and prevention programs, information on youth and tobaco, the tobacco industry, and local clean air initiatives.
- Mobilizing the Gay and Lesbian Community Against Tobacco - Short item on community-based organization against tobacco promotion.
- NAAAPI: Tobacco Control Advocacy - The National Association of African Americans for Positive Imagery (NAAAPI) has worked since 1990 to reduce the effects that the tobacco industry has had on the African American community and communities of color.
- National Clearinghouse on Tobacco and Health (NCTH) - Information and networking services for tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy in Canada.
- New York City Coalition for a Smoke Free City - The Coalition for a Smoke-Free City is an anti tobacco advocacy group committed to making New York a smoke-free city
- Nicotine Victims - Focus is on tobacco product addiction.
- NJ Breathes - Information and advocacy for tobacco education, smokefree air, and coverage of cessation, in New Jersey.
- NO PATSY Homepage - National Organization of People Attacking Tobacco Sales to Youth - Canada's Tobacco Activist Headquarters - Top stories from NO PATSY - Canadian coverage of tobacco wars, the battles, the lawsuits, the government actions.
- Non Smokers' Movement of Australia - Fighting the tobacco industry, tobacco advertising, smoking in public places and "all out-of-touch politicians who support this bogus industry". Newsletter with timely updates; publications and factsheets on tobacco history, industry strategies, and smokefree environments.
- Non-Smokers' Rights Association / Smoking and Health Action Foundation (Canada) - NSRA and SHAF have been at the forefront of tobacco control efforts in Canada and around the world for the past quarter-century.
- NYPIRG: Tobacco - Information on secondhand smoke, tobacco divestment, clean indoor air laws; downloadable book on Big Tobacco and what you can do.
- Ontario Campaign for Action on Tobacco - Founded in 1992 to support the Ontario Tobacco Control Act to reduce tobacco sales to minors, eliminate tobacco sales from drug stores and vending machines, and make more public places smoke-free. Since then, has worked for smoke-free workplace and public place by-laws, has done research on the costs of smoking and the impacts of second-hand smoke, and assisted health agencies in developing and implementing tobacco control policies.
- Ontario Tobacco-Free Network - Volunteer-directed, not-for-profit organization whose mission is to reduce the harmful effects of tobacco use. Updates on Canada and the U.S. Extensive resources area. In English and French.
- Partnerships Between Attorneys and Public Health Professionals to Support Local Tobacco Control Efforts - Historically, the greatest deterrents to local tobacco control efforts have been 1) lack of policy guidance; and 2) tobacco industry legal intimidation. This paper outlines an approach that deals with both problems.
- Philip Morris Can't Hide - Presents video on Philip Morris's name change to Altria, and offers ideas for taking action.
- Philip Morris Info Sheet - From a Stanford University student organization responding to Philip Morris recruiting on campus.
- Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada - Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada.
- PIRG: Smokefree Environment Campaign - Public Interest Research Group, a consumer organization, finds that Big Tobacco does a lot that affects the public interest.
- Preemption of Local Tobacco Control - ANR papers and tips on preemption and how to fight it. "Preempting local tobacco control with weaker state or federal laws is the tobacco industry's number one legislative goal."
- Prescription for Change - "To help a persistent cough, go to aisle 8. To get a persistent cough, go to aisle 14" Advocacy to urge pharmacies to stop selling tobacco products.
- Pro-Youth Pages: Boycott Philip Morris - Discusses how tobacco products are marketed to youth, and calls for a boycott of Philip Morris.
- Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation - ASH publication.
- ProtectMontanaKids.org - Health organizations initiative to support tobacco prevention effots in Montana.
- Public Citizen: Tobacco - Amicus briefs, litgation summaries, testimony, comments, and articles by Public Citizen regarding tobacco regulation, litigation, and legislation.
- QuickTime: PSA - A quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California, until it was pulled by governor Pete Wilson. Wilson is "still a good friend" of the tobacco industry, according to an exposed industry document.
- RI Tobacco Control Network - The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training.
- Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page - Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco.
- San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project - The San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project fights the pervasive infuence of the tobacco industry in our community. "We used to pick it -- now they want us to smoke it!"
- SCARCNet Home Page - SCARCNet Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center Network, a project of the Advocacy Institute
- Shareholder Actions: Changing the Behavior of Tobacco Companies and Their Allies - The Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility has developed strategy for dealing with the tobacco industry and its allies by using their stock to challenge issues through shareholder resolutions.
- SIF Research: Tobacco's Changing Context - Explores the different approaches that shareholders can take in formulating a response to tobacco, such as divestment, modification of investments and shareholder resolutions. A sampling of institutions, including pension funds, universities, insurance companies and foundations, along with their responses, is included.
- Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry - Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulation of music to promote smoking.
- Smoke Free Maryland Home Page - Avocacates for a smokefree society. Features information on the economic costs of tobacco use.
- Smoke Free Maryland Voting Records Site - "Did your lawmakers vote for Big Tobacco or You?" Smoke Free Maryland's Voting Records Page examines each candidate's record on the issues.
- Smoke-free Fredericton - Facts on secondhand smoke and its effects from organization for smokefree public places in Fredericton, Canada.
- Smoke-Free School - Aims for a 100% smoke-free environment at the Samuel-de-Champlain school in Saint-John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- Smokefree Advocacy - ANR and its members are involved in numerous clean indoor air campaigns around the nation. ANR action alerts give you an opportunity to take steps to protect your health and the health of your community.
- SmokeFree Air: Fighting For the Right to Breathe Clean Air - A network of advocates fighting Big Tobacco (Philip Morris, RJR, Brown and Williamson Tobacco) by writing letters supporting smokefree environments (e.g. smokefree restaurants and smokefree bars).
- SmokeScreen Action Network - Tobacco news, discussion, and advocacy. Features extensive set of mailing lists organized by topic.
- SmokeWar - Dedicated to war against smoking and for clean air.
- Smokinghurts.com - Information on smokefree restaurants, smokefree apartments and condos, coalitions, and research.
- Stomping Out Cigarettes - Article in the WorldPaper (Australia) interviews Stan Glantz.
- Students for Informed Career Decisions: Philip Morris Information Sheet - Student organization at Stanford itemizes some things to consider before working for the world's largest tobacco company.
- Students Oppose Smoking - Organization founded by student smokers and non-smokers dedicated to easing the problem of student tobacco use in Montgomery County, Maryland.
- Tarbox, Barb - Victim of lung cancer. Led crusade across Canada to stop children from starting to smoke. Includes story, images, and donation information.
- The Conscientious Consuming Boycott Against Tobacco Companies - Calls for the boycott of all the products (both tobacco and non-tobacco) of tobacco companies.
- The End of Tobacco Sales and Investments at the University of Washington - Chronicles a succesful campaign to end sales of tobacco on campus and investments in the tobacco industry at the university. Includes presentations given to the University, slides, talks, and related news items.
- The Globalization of Tobacco - Report from CorpWatch. Essays and speeches on the global marketing and politics of tobacco.
- The Joseph Moakley Memorial Fire Safe Cigarette Act of 2002 - On April 25, 2002, the H.R. 4607, was introduced in the House of Representatives and the S. 2317 was introduced in the Senate. Learn how you can help get this passed.
- The Shuster Project - Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues - A NON-Health Related Tobacco Industry Fraud & False Claims Issues site. Uses tobacco company documents, forms and guides to illustrate fraudulent tobacco company policies, practices, procedures and false claims. It has Grassroots Efforts Programs and will be interactive. It is at less than 1/10th of 1% of planned content.
- The Tobacco Scandal: Where is the Outrage? - Speech given by Dr. Koop in September 1998. Dr. Koop found the real scandal at the time was Big Tobacco's power in Congress. He gives his reasons for outrage at that scandal, in moving and vivid terms.
- The Tobacco Wars American Style - Canadian physician Terry Polevoy looks at the U.S. tobacco scene.
- Timiskaming Tobacco-Free Coalition - Supports protection from secondhand smoke, tobacco prevention and reduction, in Timiskaming Canada.
- Tobacco Cases 1830 - 2000 - Near-exhaustive compilation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry.
- Tobacco Control - Research paper. Extensive and fully documented look at Arizona's Proposition 200. Concludes: "health advocates in Arizona successfully fought tobacco industry attempts to divert the health education funds and pass preemptive legislation. But the executive branch limited the scope of the program to adolescents and pregnant women, and prevented it from attacking the tobacco industry or focusing on secondhand smoke."
- Tobacco Control Online - Current and recent issues online. News, analysis, ad watch, industry watch, events, lots of content.
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