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Physicians for a Smoke-Free Canada - Covers everything from tobaco marketing to constituents of secondhand smoke to economic costs of smoking in Canada.

Preemption of Local Tobacco Control - ANR papers and tips on preemption and how to fight it. "Preempting local tobacco control with weaker state or federal laws is the tobacco industry's number one legislative goal."

Promoting Clean Indoor Air Legislation - ASH publication.

QuickTime: PSA - A quicktime video clip of an anti-smoking ad aired in California, until it was pulled by governor Pete Wilson. Wilson is "still a good friend" of the tobacco industry, according to an exposed industry document.

RI Tobacco Control Network - The Rhode Island Tobacco Control Network has a local calendar, factsheets, RI state laws on tobacco, RI communities with tobacco control ordinances, and advocate training.

Robert Sklaroff's Tobacco Page - Robert Sklaroff, MD, writes about his decades-long effort to fight Big Tobacco.

SCARCNet Home Page - SCARCNet Smoking Control Advocacy Resource Center Network, a project of the Advocacy Institute

SIF Research: Tobacco's Changing Context - Explores the different approaches that shareholders can take in formulating a response to tobacco, such as divestment, modification of investments and shareholder resolutions. A sampling of institutions, including pension funds, universities, insurance companies and foundations, along with their responses, is included.

San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project - The San Francisco African American Tobacco Free Project fights the pervasive infuence of the tobacco industry in our community. "We used to pick it -- now they want us to smoke it!"

Save Lives, Not Tobacco -- A Coalition for Accountability - Coalition of over 300 public health, consumer, medical, civic, labor and business organizations that advocates fair and effective tobacco control policies at local, state, and national levels. Supports measures that will reduce addiction, disease, disability and death caused by tobacco products. Believes that granting special protection to the tobacco industry is unjust and would undercut the ability to protect public health.

Scientific American: Science and the Citizen: Big Tobacco's Worst Nightmare - "Industry secrets exposed by Stanton A. Glantz helped to put tobacco companies on the run. Show them no mercy, he urges"

Singer/songwriter Forms Coalition to Fight Tobacco Industry - Leslie Nuchow rejected a lucrative promotion offer when she learned it was from Philip Morris. Then she formed Virginia SLAM! a coalition of musicians, music industry professionals and community activists working against the tobacco industry's manipulation of music to promote smoking.

Smoke Free Maryland Home Page - Avocacates for a smokefree society. Features info on the economic costs of tobacco use.

Smoke Free Maryland Voting Records Site - "Did your lawmakers vote for Big Tobacco or You?" Smoke Free Maryland's Voting Records Page examines each candidate's record on the issues.

Smoke-Free School - Aims for a 100% smoke-free environment at the Samuel-de-Champlain school in Saint-John, New Brunswick, Canada.

Smoke-free Fredericton - Facts on secondhand smoke and its effects from organization for smokefree public places in Fredericton, Canada.

SmokeFree Air: Fighting For the Right to Breathe Clean Air - A network of advocates fighting Big Tobacco (Philip Morris, RJR, Brown and Williamson Tobacco) by writing letters supporting smokefree environments (e.g. smokefree restaurants and smokefree bars).

SmokeScreen Action Network - Tobacco news, discussion, and advocacy. Features extensive set of mailing lists organized by topic.

SmokeWar - Dedicated to war against smoking and for clean air.

Smokefree Advocacy - ANR and its members are involved in numerous clean indoor air campaigns around the nation. ANR action alerts give you an opportunity to take steps to protect your health and the health of your community.

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