The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General
A comprehensive scientific report which concludes that there is no risk-free level of exposure to secondhand smoke, published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in June 2006. .
The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General
A comprehensive report on the hazards of smoking and the benefits of quitting published by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in May 2004.
Clinical Practice Guideline: Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence
This Public Health Service guideline contains strategies and recommendations designed to assist clinicians, tobacco dependence treatment specialists, and health care administrators, insurers, and purchasers in delivering and supporting effective treatments for tobacco use and dependence.
Mississippi Tobacco Data
The goals of the Mississippi Comprehensive Tobacco Control Program are to reduce initiation of tobacco use among youth, promote tobacco cessation among youth and adults, eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke, and reduce disparities among specific populations.
North American Quitline Consortium: The Promotion Task Force
The Promotion Alerts link provides information about planned national promotion campaigns that might affect state Quitline call volumes.
Social Climate Survey Data Center
The Social Climate Survey of Tobacco Control was developed as a methodology to objectively measure the fundamental position of tobacco control in society and thereby provide a data collection system to monitor program impacts. In collaboration with CAHMI, the SCS now has a data center which allows users to quickly gather detailed information from key areas including, demographics, family and friendship groups, work, health & medical care, mass communication & culture, smoking, smoking cessation, and more.
World Health Organization (WHO): The Tobacco Atlas
The Tobacco Atlas includes full-colour world maps and graphics, revealing similarities and differences between countries, on the history of tobacco, different types of tobacco use, prevalence and consumption, youth smoking, the economics of tobacco, farming and manufacturing, smuggling, the tobacco industry, promotion, profits, trade, smokers' rights, legislative action such as smoke-free areas, bans on tobacco advertising, health warnings, quitting, the effect of price and taxation, litigation and the future of the epidemic.
Please note that these are not complete listings and inclusion in the listings does not imply endorsement by the Richmond Center or the American Academy of Pediatrics.
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