Search The Directory The Web for Home > Health > Women's Health > Smoking New! Submit a site   Categories: Lung Cancer (12)       whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   "Torches of Freedom": Themes of Women's Liberation in American Cigarette Advertising - Paper presented at the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture Association Convention, Albuquerque, N.M., February, 1999. Explores tobacco industry ad campaigns targetting women and industry use of women's groups.   ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke? - Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking.   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.   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."   Background Info on Women, Girls and Tobacco - Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targetting women and girls.   Canadian Cancer Society - If you are a woman who doesn't want to quit smoking - What's not here: advice on how to quit; lectures about how to quit; ways to cut back. What is here: how to deal with people who nag you to quit; getting information on your smoking; some facts about quitting that you might not have known.   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."   Cigarette Companies Blow Smoke In Women's Eyes - Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women.   Cigarette Smoking Causes Child Learning Disabilities - Attention Deficit and Behavior Disorders - New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.   Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women - According to recent research.   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.   Creating a Global Tobacco Culture Among Women - Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.   Facts on Women and Tobacco - Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).   HomeArts: Health News -- Lung Cancer Risk Underestimated, Especially by Women - The most common cancer in the U.S. is lung cancer, and women have the highest incidence of lung cancer and the highest death rate.   Independence from Smoking - The National Women's Health Information Center has created this page to help empower women and girls, and the people they love, to breathe clean! Gain independence from the stale world of smoking by using our information and resources. Learn about the specific effects of smoking on your health and how to overcome barriers to quit.   Influencing our Taste - Cigarette magazine advertising and cigarette slogans in the 1990's.   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.   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   Los Angeles Women's Tobacco Control Coalition - Collective of six coalitions focused on six communities in L.A. County: Hispanic, African American, youth, women, Asian Pacific Islanders, and Gay and Lesbian; committed to curbing tobacco use among these groups.   Lung Cancer On rise Among Women - Lung cancer rates are falling among men but not women, reflecting smoking patterns over recent decades, according to a new report.     [ 1 2 3 4 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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