Resources:

• ***MEDICINE ONLINE (TM) - The Lung Cancer Information Center The Lung Cancer Information Center is an electronic library of comprehensive educational materials on lung cancer related materials for health care professionals and patients. This service is published by UltiTech, Inc. Smoking related articles for patient education include: Smoking and Cancer, Environmental Tobacco Smoke or Increased Cancer Incidence Due Mainly to Screening and Smoking are provided by the Lung Cancer Information Center.
  http://www.meds.com/lung/lunginfo.html
  
  
• Action On Smoking And Health (ASH) Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) is a national organization devoted solely to the problems of smoking and to protecting nonsmokers' rights. In this web site, you will find information on FDA'S new release on cigarette regulations, company policies to protect nonsmoking workers, smoking parents are killing their infants, tough anti-smoking law upheld, and much more.
  http://ash.org/
  
  
• Articles And Teaching Materials Related To Smoking Center for the Computation and Visualization of Geometric Structures, a National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center at the University of Minnesota provides a list of Articles and teaching materials related to smoking. Articles such as, "Smoking Signals And Uncritical Reporting," "The world; Asia's having one big nicotine fit," "Smokers have higher breast cancer death risk," and much more.
  http://www.geom.umn.edu/docs/snell/chance/course/topics/smoking.html
  
  
• Cigarette Smoking Slows Spine Healing Cigarette Smoking Slows Spine Healing is a new release study published by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon on Feb. 26, 1996. According to a study of 139 patients, ATLANTA-Spinal surgery is more successful in patients who have never smoked or stopped prior to surgery than in lifelong smokers. This study can be found at the following web site:
  http://www.aaos.org/wordhtml/press/smoke.htm
  
  
• HealthWatch: Stroke And Smoking You think it's too late to stop smoking? New research shows that the positive effects of quitting smoking can be seen as soon as five years after the last cigarette. One of the most striking benefits is the significantly reduced risk of stroke. For more information, visit the Health Watch: Stroke and Smoking@ website.
  http://www.swmed.edu/home_pages/library/consumer/stroke.htm
  
  
• How To Quit Smoking... And Quit For Keeps How To Quit Smoking...And Quit For Keeps is a booklet published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Public Health Service National Institutes of Health to guide smokers from thinking about stopping through actually doing it. The electronic version of this booklet can be found at the following website:
  http://www.hoptechno.com/book43.htm
  
  
• INFACT's Tobacco Industry Campaign The emphasis of INFACT is to stop marketing tobacco to children and to raise issues of corporate interference in our political process. The web page includes information about President Clinton's proposed regulation of tobacco, etc..
  http://www.boutell.com/infact/
  
  
• Kickbutt.org: Clearing the Smoke Information on smoking prevention, cessation and regulation, the latest news about the war on the tobacco industry, a youth section, and an online activism center.
  http://kickbutt.org/
  
  
• A Major Lawsuit Against The Tobacco Industry (Settled) Attorney general Christine Gregoire announced on June 5th, 1996 that her office filed a major lawsuit against the tobacco industry. This site provides information about the suit and their legal team.
  http://www.wa.gov/ago/tobacco/
  
  
• NicNet: The Nicotine and Tobacco Network In this website, you will find listings of other tobacco related links and research resources on nicotine and tobacco.
  http://www.ashline.org/ASH/home.html
  
  
• QuitNet This organization has incredible resources on tobacco control program in Massachusetts, and links to related resources.
  http://www.quitnet.org/
  
  
• Tobacco Control Archives The Tobacco Control Archives (TCA), a project sponsored by UCSF Library & Center for Knowledge Management, Department of Archives & Special Collections, will be a central, organized source of information. Its purpose is to collect, preserve, and provide access to papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
  http://galen.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
  
  

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