American Legacy Foundation
The American Legacy Foundation was established in March 1999 as a result of the Master Settlement Agreement between a coalition of attorneys general in 46 states and five U.S. territories and the tobacco industry. The Foundation is dedicated to promoting tobacco-free generations.

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is a national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government, protecting nonsmokers from exposure to secondhand smoke, and preventing tobacco addiction among youth.

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids works to reduce tobacco use and its devastating consequences in the United States and around the world. The campaign works to change public attitudes and public policies on tobacco, to prevent kids from smoking, to help smokers quit, and to protect everyone from secondhand smoke. The campaign has a fact sheet on secondhand smoke here (pdf, 72K).

Global Tobacco Research Network (GTRN)
The Global Tobacco Research Network's mission is to enhance research by promoting collaboration and partnerships, providing information, facilitating training, and sharing research tools with the goal of reducing the burden of disease and death caused by tobacco.

Institute for Global Tobacco Control
Established in 1998 in the Department of Epidemiology at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the Institute for Global Tobacco Control works to prevent death and disease from tobacco use through research, education, and policy development.

March of Dimes
The March of Dimes is an organization that works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. The web site provides a fact sheet on smoking during pregnancy here.

National Partnership for Smoke-Free Families
The National Partnership for Smoke-Free Families is a national program supported by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation working to discover the best ways to help pregnant smokers quit, and spread the word about effective, evidence-based treatments.

Smoke Free Movies
Smoke Free Movies aims to sharply reduce the U.S. film industry's usefulness to Big Tobacco's domestic and global marketing. It is affiliated with the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California, San Francisco.

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.