Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
According to recent research.
http://ash.org/dangers/women.html

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic
World Health Organiziation fact sheet.
http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact176.html

International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT)
Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.
http://www.inwat.org/

Tobacco and Women's Health
Book review of book of same title.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114

Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge
Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.
http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm

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.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384

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.
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html

Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry
Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.
http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/teengirl.htm

Smoking and Quitting for Women
From the National Women's Health Information Center.
http://www.forwoman.net/faq/smoking.htm

Cigarette Smoking During Pregnancy
New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.
http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm

The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/3

Tobacco as a Problem for Women
Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm

You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World
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.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0032/otis.shtml

Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes
Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/01/08/feat/feat.1.html

Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking
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
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/09/intl/intl.1.html

Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females
The National Coalition for Women against Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.
http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm

Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
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.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm

Women and Tobacco
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49

Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women
Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.
http://www.health.fi/smoke2html/Pages/Smoke2-23.html

The Wrong Way to Stay Slim
Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the connection between body image, advertising, and smoking.
http://www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp

Philip Morris: National Expert on Women
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".
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html

Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls
Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.
http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org/smoking.htm

Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting
Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal options in ordinary language.
http://TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com/articles/womens_health/smokingcess_4/index.shtml

Smoking is a Women's Issue
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco industry.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/

Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke
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.
http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html

The New Face of Tobacco: Women
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide.
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html

ivillage: Smoking and Women
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html

Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model
Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer.
http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3152

Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf

U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s
ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.
http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news/text_ABC_smoke&mirrors.html

Virginia SLAM!
Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music.
http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409

Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination
Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.
http://www.mothersbliss.co.uk/nine/smoke.asp

Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking.
http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html

OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk
Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm

Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.
http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0523021.htm

Women and Smoking
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.
http://www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.html

Independence From Smoking
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.
http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm

Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report
The marked increase in the number of women who die each year from tobacco products has led the surgeon general to call smoking-related disease among women a full-blown epidemic.
http://www.usmedicine.com/dailyNews.cfm?dailyID=24

A Primer on Women and Tobacco: The Leading American Epidemic
Report from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women.
http://www.amsa.org/pdf/womentobaccoprimer.pdf

Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).
http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women
NOW Foundation fact sheet.
http://www.nowfoundation.org/health/whp/whp_fact7.html

Smoking Is Ugly
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.
http://www.smokingisugly.com/

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.
http://women.americanlegacy.org/

Smoking: A Guide for Teens
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html

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.
http://wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid=2&diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1

16. Women and smoking
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm

Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction
"Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive capacity of the next generation."
http://www.foresight-preconception.org.uk/summaries/frames/smoking-nf.html

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.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10&notFound=true

Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia
Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data.
http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/briefs/four/

Cigarette Ads Targetting Women
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=women&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=55&submit.y=17

Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=&records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9

Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer
Summary of recent research.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctbcnc.htm

Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis
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."
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=PubMed&cmd=Retrieve&list_uids=1728734&dopt=Citation

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.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_forwomen/

Smoke-Free Families: Know a Pregnant Smoker?
Benefits of quitting for you and your baby, resources that will help you quit smoking and stay quit, and how to contact Smoke-Free Families.
http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/quit/youknow.asp

Ladies Home Journal on Smoking
Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.
http://www.lhj.com/home/Quit-Smoking.html

The National Partnership to Help Pregnant Smokers Quit
Dedicated to smoking cessation methods and education about health issues arising from pregnancy and smoking. "We help pregnant women quit smoking."
http://www.helppregnantsmokersquit.org/

"You've Gone the Wrong Way, Baby"
Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada.
http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28829-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Speakers Kit on Women and Girls, Tobacco, and Lung Cancer
Slide presentations on tobacco advertising to women, public policy, smoking trends and health issues for women and girls, and smoking cessation approaches and options.
http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/wgtlc/presentations.php

ACSH: Tobacco and Women's Health: A Survey of Popular Women's Magazines, August 1999-August 2000
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.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.1004/pub_detail.asp

You've Come a Long Way...or Have You?
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.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.415/pub_detail.asp

Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand
Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid's claim that it's taking a stand against heart disease in women.
http://www.rawbw.com/~jpk/stand/Pictures.html

Facts on Women and Tobacco
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
http://www.cdc.gov/women/natstat/smoking.htm

June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women
Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.
http://www.jrussellshealth.org/smokwomen.html