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The New Face of Tobacco: Women
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. (February 14, 2001)
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The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes
Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.
wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid
=2&diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1 Read more |
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The Wrong Way to Stay Slim
Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking. (November 2, 1995)
www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp Read more |
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This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care?
Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups. (April 11, 2001)
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10&am
p;notFound=true Read more |
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Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slimds ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.
www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&am
p;amp;type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=&records_per_p
age=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9 Read more |
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Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO
Tobacco companies are exploiting women's struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report.
bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384 Read more |
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Virginia SLAM!
Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry out of music.
www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409 Read more |
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Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy
Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart. (November 8, 1999)
www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html Read more |
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Women and Smoking
A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit, state information, links.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/ Read more |
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Women and Smoking
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema, lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting letters to their family and loved ones.
women.americanlegacy.org/ Read more |
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Women and Smoking
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.
www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.html Read more |
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