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• Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco

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

• Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke

  http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
  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.

• Cigarette Advertising and Magazine Coverage of the Hazards of Smoking: A Statistical Analysis

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1728734?dopt=Citation
  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 Smoking During Pregnancy

  http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm
  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 Linked to Breast Cancer

  http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctbcnc.htm
  Summary of recent research.

• International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT)

  http://www.inwat.org/
  Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.

• OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/05/000509003313.htm
  Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer.

• Philip Morris: National Expert on Women

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html
  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".

• Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/8/1/113.2.full
  Book review.

• Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand

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

• Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function

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

• Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm
  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.

• Smoking: A Guide for Teens

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

• Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia

  http://www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/briefs/four/
  Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data.

• The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/1/3.full
  Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.

• Tobacco and Women's Health

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/9/1/114.1.full
  Book review of book of same title.

• Tobacco as a Problem for Women

  http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm
  Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.

• U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s

  http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/news/text_ABC_smoke&mirrors.html
  ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.

• Why Cigarettes Can be a Woman's Worst Enemy

  http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html
  Smoking increases your risk of cervical and rectal cancer; worsens your period; damages your fertility; hurts your unborn baby; ages you; attacks your heart.

• Women and Tobacco

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

• Women More Vulnerable To Cigarette Harm

  http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/141163.php
  Twin studies reveal that women are more susceptible to lung disease caused by tobacco product.

• Women More Vulnerable To Tobacco Carcinogens, New Results Show

  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090503082340.htm
  Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smkoing tobacco, according to new results.

• Women, Girls and Tobacco: The Global Facts and the Challenge

  http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm
  Short paper on women and tobacco; tobacco promotion to women and girls; global impact of tobacco on women; recommendations for action.

• You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World

  http://www.villagevoice.com/news/youre-going-too-far-baby-6417861
  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.

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