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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.

Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. [PDF]

Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).

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.

Cigarette Ads Targetting Women
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.

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 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.

Cigarettes Linked to Breast Cancer
Summary of recent research.

Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
According to recent research.

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).

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.

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.

June Russell's Health Facts: Smoking - Women
Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.

Ladies Home Journal on Smoking
Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.

The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.

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.

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'.

Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination
Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.

Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
Book review.

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.

Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.

Smoking: A Guide for Teens
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic
World Health Organization fact sheet.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Tobacco and Women's Health
Book review of book of same title.

Tobacco as a Problem for Women
Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.

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.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.

U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since '20s
ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.

Virginia SLAM!
Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music.

16. Women and smoking
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.

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.

Women and Smoking
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking cessation.

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.

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.

Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women
NOW Foundation fact sheet.

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.

"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.

Women More Vulnerable To Tobacco Carcinogens, New Results Show
Women may be more vulnerable than men to the cancer-causing effects of smkoing tobacco, according to new results. (, 2009)

Women More Vulnerable To Cigarette Harm
Twin studies reveal that women are more susceptible to lung disease caused by tobacco product. (March 5, 2009)

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. (May 14, 2001)

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. (April 11, 2001)

The New Face of Tobacco: Women
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US and worldwide. (February 14, 2001)

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. (August 15, 2000)

OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk
Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. (May 9, 2000)

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. (November 8, 1999)

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. (March, 1999)

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