Links

The following are national and state level websites related to tobacco use control.

Do you Damage - http://doingyoudamage.com/

Action on Smoking & Health - www.ash.org
A national organization providing information on smoking and passive smoking issues.

Alliance for the Prevention and Treatment of Nicotine Addiction- www.aptna.org/index.html
APTNA provides training, consultation and resources to healthcare providers in Virginia in order to assist them in implementing research-based clinical practice guidelines designed to reduce tobacco use among their patients.

American Cancer Society - www.cancer.org
National group that runs the Great American Smokeout and provides materials through its website, 800-number and through local offices.

American Heart Association - www.americanheart.org
AHA focuses on heart health issues nationally and through regional offices.

American Legacy Foundation- www.americanlegacy.org
Dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.

American Lung Association - www.lungusa.org/tobacco/index.html
ALA works on tobacco issues as they relate to young people and asthma.

Americans for Nonsmokers Rights www.no-smoke.org/
National group devoted to fighting for tougher indoor smoking regulations.

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids – www.tobaccofreekids.org/
Activist group that lobbies for stronger laws and provides information and materials.

CDC Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System - www.cdc.gov/brfss
For the latest state and national surveillance data on adult health risk behaviors related to chronic disease, including smoking.

CDC Smoking Attributable Morbidity, Mortality and Economic Costs (SAMMEC) - http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/sammec/
A web-based application, developed by the CDC Office of Smoking and Health, to compute state and national estimates of the disease impact of smoking on adults and infants. SAMMEC reports include estimates on smoking-related mortality, years of potential life lost, medical expenditures and productivity losses.

CDC State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation (STATE) System - http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/StateSystem/index.aspx
Developed by the CDC Office on Smoking and Health, STATE is an electronic data warehouse containing up-to-date and historical state-level data on tobacco use prevention and control. The STATE System is designed to integrate many data sources to provide comprehensive summary data and facilitate research and consistent data interpretation.

Centers for Disease Control & Prevention – www.cdc.gov/tobacco
Main U.S. government website source of tobacco information.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) - www.epa.gov/iaq/ets.html
Federal agency with focus on secondhand smoke issue.

The FDA recognizes that dealing with a large organization can be difficult for small entities.
In an effort to help small businesses obtain the guidance they need, the Center for Tobacco Products has a small business assistance program, which we plan to expand as the Agency implements provisions of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.  Check out the new Small Business Assistance Web page

Center for Tobacco Products information for industry is available at www.fda.gov/tobaccoinfoindustry.

Food and Drug Administration –www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco.html
Federal agency working to gain regulatory control over nicotine and tobacco products.

Know Tobacco - www.knowtobacco.net/default.aspx

The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit- http://www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org/

National Spit Tobacco Education Program- www.nstep.org
Their mission is to prevent people, especially young people, from starting to use spit tobacco, and to help all users quit.

SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies (OAS) National Survey on Drug Use and Health - http://www.oas.samhsa.gov/
The Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, the lead federal agency for improving the quality and availability of substance abuse prevention and treatment and mental health services, provides state and national statistics on alcohol, tobacco, other drug use and mental health among adults and youth. Tobacco use data comes from the NSDUH survey.

Smoke free Families- http://www.smokefreefamilies.org

Smoke Free Homes- www.kidslivesmokefree.org

Smokefree Net- http://www.smokefree.net/
Fighting for smoke free air.

Smokefree Virginia- www.smokefreevirginia.org
Smoking cessation resources to guide you on your way to a healthier lifestyle.

Southern Neighbors- www.savesouthernkids.org/
The Southern Neighbors Collaborative is a partnership of public health organizations in Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia focused on bringing the benefits of higher cigarette taxes to southern, tobacco-dependent states.

Tobacco.Org- www.tobacco.org/
General tobacco information site with news reports updated daily.

Tobacco Control Resource Center - www.tobacco.neu.edu
Information on tobacco companies and other tobacco topics.

Tobacco Control Supersite (links by topic) - www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco

The Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium- www.ttac.org/home.html
TTAC builds capacity to achieve effective tobacco prevention and control programs and policies.

Virginia Cancer Plan Action Coalition

Virginians For A Healthy Future- www.healthyva.org
Working to improve the health, education & welfare of children, families and communities by reducing the use of tobacco products in Virginia.

Virginia GASP, Virginia Group to Alleviate Smoking in Public, Inc. - http://www.gasp.org/
We provide information on secondhand smoke, legislative efforts, recent news on health vs. tobacco, and many more links.

Virginia Smoke-free Dining - www.vasmokefreedining.com/
Smoke-free dining guide to assist diners as well as restaurants that wish to become smoke-free.

Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation- www.vtsf.org/
The mission of the Virginia Tobacco Settlement Foundation is to lead a statewide effort to reduce and prevent the use of tobacco products by youth in Virginia.

Univ Calif SF - Tobacco Control Archives - www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco
Millions of pages of tobacco company documents going back 60 years.