"You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby"
Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada.
web.idrc.ca
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16. Women and smoking
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
www.quit.org.au
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A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic
Report in PDF format from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women.
www.amsa.org
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ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke?
Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking. (August, 1996)
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ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August
Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice.
www.acsh.org
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Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction
'Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation.'
www.foresight-preconception.org.uk
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Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
tobaccofreekids.org
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Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).
www.moalpha.org
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Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.
www.cwhn.ca
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Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model
Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer. (May 14, 2001)
www.drdonnica.com
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