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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. |
Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart. |
According to recent research. |
Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid's claim that it's taking a stand against heart disease in women. |
Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking = liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally. |
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. |
Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. |
Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher. |
Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smkoing tobacco, according to new results. |
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia. |
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's. |
Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues". |
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads. |
Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women. |
Summary of recent research. |
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. |
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention. |
Twin studies reveal that women are more susceptible to lung disease caused by tobacco product. |
Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info. |
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco. |
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight. |
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation. |
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. |
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking. |
From the American Council on Science and Health a survey of 13 magazines over two years shows that women's magazines still downplaying health effects of smoking. The ratio of cigarette ads to articles on smoking is actually increasing. |
Follow-up to earlier ACSH research finds women's magazines still give little or no coverage to lung cancer or other health effects of smoking, and still take plenty of cigarette ads, and still dispense plenty of other health advice. |
Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada. |
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. |
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry. |
Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language. |
Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls. |
Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action. |
NOW Foundation fact sheet. |
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women. |
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young women in particular |
Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women. |
Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking. |
Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study. |
Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women. |
Book review. |
Book review of book of same title. |
Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. "We help pregnant women quit smoking." |
Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data. |
Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. |
Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer. |
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group). |
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children. |
World Health Organization fact sheet. |
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes. |
Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women. |
Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy. |
Research concludes that "cigarette advertising in magazines is associated with diminished coverage of the hazards of smoking. This is particularly true for magazines directed to women." |
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking. |
Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families. |
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC). |
ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history. |
National Women's Health Information Center provides information and resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to gain independence from smoking. |
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