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Maine Organizations
American Cancer Society of Maine
American
Lung Association of Maine
The American Lung Association of Maine is a statewide
health organization supported by the people of Maine.
It is a partnership of volunteers, staff and some
of the states leading experts in lung diseases. See
the organizations website for Maine specific information
and data about tobacco prevention and use.
The Health Policy Partners of Maine was created in 2007 as an umbrella coalition consisting of the Maine Coalition on Smoking or Health, the Friends for the Fund for a Healthy Maine, and a group of professionals working on obesity prevention policy.
Action
on Smoking and Health
ASH is a national legal-action anti-smoking organization.
Its accomplishments include getting cigarette commercials
off radio and TV; banning smoking in airplanes, buses,
and many public places; and convincing the FDA to
regulate cigarette advertising and sales. ASH works
to protect the rights of nonsmokers and others concerned
about smoking. The organizations vital, life-saving
work, including the maintenance of these web pages
— is entirely supported by tax-deductible contributions.
American
Council on Science and Health
The American Council on Science and Health, Inc. (ACSH)
is a consumer education consortium concerned with
issued related to food, nutrition, chemicals, pharmaceuticals,
lifestyle, the environment and health. ACSH is an
independent, nonprofit, tax-exempt organization.
American
Legacy Foundation
One of the conditions of the Master Settlement Agreement
(MSA) was to set up a nonprofit anti-smoking education
foundation with some of the money paid by the tobacco
companies. This is the foundation that was set up
by the Settlement.
Centers
for Disease Control
As diligent stewards of public trust and public funds,
the CDC acts decisively and compassionately in service
to peoples health. The organization ensures that research
and services are based on sound science and meet real
public needs to achieve its public health goals.
Floridas
Youth Campaign
The Whole Truth — From Students Working Against
Tobacco [SWAT] — part of Floridas groundbreaking
anti-tobacco campaign.
Kickbutt
Developed by Washington DOC (Doctors Ought to Care)
on behalf of the tobacco control community. The goal
of Kickbutt is to link different tobacco control groups,
improve access to vital information, and provide communities
with the necessary tools to work for change.
Question
It
Great tips to quit and more information on how Big
Tobacco wants to rule your life (requires Shockwave).
The Great
American Smokeout
If you want to quit, help someone quit, or stay tobacco-free
yourself, the American Cancer Society can give you
all the tools you need.
Tobacco.org
Daily quotes from tobacco concerns pro and con; customizable
news; and everything you need to keep on top of the
tobacco conglomerates.
TRUTH
An interactive site developed by teens from across
the nation to encourage young people to make decisions
for themselves and take control of who they want to
be and how they want to live their lives.
Youth
Media Network
A peer-to-peer communications network designed to
provide information about tobacco use (both smoking
and chewing) for youth.
NicNet
Web site of the Arizona Program for Nicotine and Tobacco
Research, with links and articles about research,
prevention, cessation and more.
Nicorette
The Nicorette web site announces the availability
of over-the-counter (OTC) Nicorette, the first FDA-approved
OTC smoking cessation aid. The site provides detailed
information about how to quit for those smokers who
want to kick the habit.
NoButts
The California Smokers Helpline offers lots of information
on how to quit (requires free registration).
Quitnet
Everything you need to quit for good. Free registration
required for most sections, but Quitnet will never
sell your information to anyone else or use it against
you.
The Great
American Smokeout
If you want to quit, help someone quit, or stay tobacco
free yourself, the American Cancer Society can give
you all the tools you need.
This website is designed to provide and evaluate smoking treatments for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender
smokers. This smoking treatment research program has
been developed by faculty from the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF) along with LGBT health professionals.
Over the past 20 years the UCSF faculty has developed
and evaluated innovative methods for helping smokers
quit. The purpose of this project is to understand
how Internet-based programs might assist lesbian,
gay, bisexual, and transgender smokers to quit.
Colors
Issue 21: Smoking
Shows what the chemicals found in cigarette smoke
are and why theyre bad for you (requires Shockwave).
Smoking
& Inhaling Secondhand Smoke: What
Am I Inhaling?
Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada provides a form
to find out how much of the nasty chemicals you inhale
from smoking and from secondhand smoke.
The
Health Consequences of Smoking:
A Report of the Surgeon General, May 2004.
This report of the Surgeon General on the health effects
of smoking returns to the topic of active smoking
and disease, the focus of the first Surgeon General’s
report published in 1964(U.S. Department of Health,
Education, and Welfare[USDHEW] 1964).
Tobacco
Under Attack
A Brief History
of Tobacco from CNN, the history of tobacco in the
U.S.
Joe
Camel Campaign
The lawsuit that killed Joe Camel: Mangini v. R.J.
Reynolds Tobacco Company. All the proof that RJR used
Joe to make kids smoke is right here.
Maine
Tobacco Laws
Information courtesy of the American Lung Association
of Maine.
Master
Settlement Agreement
This is the full text of the Settlement, from the
National Association of Attorneys General. Warning:
this is a legal document and may contain terms and
language unfamiliar to you; it is also extremely long
and may take a long time to load.
Tobacco
Archives (Open Website in New Browser
Window)
Provides access to all legal documents filed throughout
the litigation against the five major cigarette manufacturers
named in the suit.
Tobacco
Settlement Funds: State Updates
Provides regularly updated information on what individual
states are doing with the settlement money paid by
the tobacco companies.
TobaccoResolution.com
Sponsored by the Big 5 Tobacco companies, this site
contains part of their response to legislation and
anti-smoking campaigns in the U.S.
TobaccoWeek.com
The first Internet portal dedicated to tobacco control
issues.
U.S.
House Committee on Commerce Tobacco Documents
In 1998, Commerce Committee Chairman Tom Bliley ordered
that all but 39 of the documents subpoenaed by the
U.S. House Commerce Committee be released to the public
on the Web.
