Women's smoking, targetting of women in tobacco marketing, and resulting cancer rates, with a focus on Canada.

Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.

Report in PDF format from the American Medical Students Association on tobacco marketing, tobacco use, and women.

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.

'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.'

Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.

Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health group).

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.

Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer. (May 14, 2001)

A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of cigarette ads.

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.'

Newspaper article outlines a few ways cigarettes are promoted to women. (January 8, 1998)

New evidence that cigarette smoking during pregnancy can cause attention deficit disorder, hyperactivity, aggressive behavior disorders and lower math and reading scores in children.

Summary of recent research.

According to recent research.

The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased since the tobacco settlement.

Book chapter explores tobacco industry promotion worldwide targeting women.

Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).

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.

Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls.

Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the problem nationally; quitting; prevention.

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 (March 9, 1998)

Factsheet on tobacco products and their effects on women, children, and families.

Smoking quiz, quitting tips, and dealing with withdrawal symptoms.

Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. (May 9, 2000)