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Listed here are some online
Australian and international resources on tobacco. Most sites include
links to further information. We've divided the resources
into COMMONWEALTH GOVERNMENT, STATE/TERRITORY
GOVERNMENT (including part-government), NON-GOVERNMENT
(Australia) and INTERNATIONAL
RESOURCES.
NEW
Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco
Control: Making Smoking History
A major new book on advocacy and tobacco control by Simon Chapman,
editor of Tobacco Control journal (and ASH board
member). Overview, contents
and orders here
COMMONWEALTH
GOVERNMENT
2006
pack warnings (spool down); About
the warnings
National
Tobacco Strategy 2004-09
From the
(Federal-State) Ministerial Council on Drug Strategy, continuation of
the National Tobacco Campaign (see below).
Australian Institute
of Health and Welfare
Site includes
publications and statistics on drug use in Australia, including tobacco.
Department of
Health and Aged Care
Information on Commonwealth Government initiatives in tobacco
control, including the National Tobacco Strategy, which comprises
Commonwealth and State/Territory governments' comprehensive approach to
tobacco control.
The Department also
has a useful calendar
of health-related dates
National Tobacco Campaign
A Commonwealth, State and Territory health initiative. The website
has facts about smoking, images from the national campaign and stories
and information about quitting.
National School Drug Education Strategy
Although the strategy is focused on illicit drugs it includes
education about other drugs, including tobacco.
STATE/TERRITORY GOVERNMENT (and
part-government)
State and Territory
cancer control organisations
Links to all
organisations from the Australia Cancer Council website.
Cancer
Institute NSW
See the media ads etc for the latest NSW "Excuses"
campaign here. Also available is the new "Change is in the
Air" campaign, a joint initiative between the Cancer Institute NSW
and NSW Health announcing the legislative changes to smoking inside NSW
licensed venues. See above site or coontact Anita Dessaix, ph. (02)
8374-5639.
Quit Victoria
Background on smoking, health issues and stopping smoking, site
includes a 'Tobacco Action Pack' for students and the online text of the
booklet "Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues".
See Feb
2005 Quit ads on lung disease
Western
Australia (government)
Smoking and health program: booklets, information sheets, pamphlets,
regulations and campaign summaries.
Make
Smoking History
Great WA site including new
"It's never too late to quit" campaign
aimed at older smokers.
NON-GOVERNMENT
(Australia)
Tobacco
Control Supersite!
From the University of Sydney's Tobacco Industry Documents Project
Team, contains new databases,
summaries and access to pdfs of previously secret tobacco industry
documents revealing some of their most outrageous misdeeds.
Tobacco:
Time for Action
Report from National Aboriginal
and Torres Strait Islander Tobacco Control Project, 2002 (NACCHO).
The Cancer Council Australia
Extensive cancer info for health professionals and the community.
Cochrane Centre
Australasia
A not-for-profit research organisation that aims to help people make
informed decisions about health care. Site includes synopses and
abstracts of reviews of health and medical research.
Australian Council on Smoking and Health
A coalition of 34 medical, educational and community organisations
concerned with reducing the health consequences of smoking at a
state-wide, national and international level.
Australian Drug Foundation
An independent, not-for-profit organisation working to prevent and
reduce alcohol and drug problems in the Australian community.
Australian Lung Foundation
Guide to lung health and respiratory medicine for the community and
health professionals.
Australian National Council on Drugs
Information on drugs in Australia, including tobacco, news and
events.
Cigarette
litter is trashing Australia
Almost 50% of
urban litter is caused by cigarette butts and packets. After 9
years, tobacco litter is still a major polluter of our streets, parks
and waterways, according to Clean Up Australia.
INTERNATIONAL
RESOURCES
Media's key role in lowering smoking rates
August 2008: New report from US National Cancer Institute, product of 5
years, 23 authors and 62 expert reviewers, using a process akin to the US
Surgeon-General's reports. Reviews how the tobacco
industry uses media to advertise and promote its products, evidence for
the effectiveness of bans on tobacco advertising and promotion, role of
news and entertainment media (including movies), and evidence on mass
media campaigns and other strategies.
Key findings:
- Tobacco advertising and promotion is
causally related to tobacco use. Partial advertising bans do not
reduce tobacco use because the tobacco industry moves its promotional strategies from the banned media into where they
can still promote. For Australia, this means retail display bans and
plain tobacco packaging, and closing off remaining tobacco promotion
avenues, are priorities for policy attention.
- Depictions
of smoking in movies is causally related to youth smoking uptake.
Efforts to reduce depictions of smoking in movies are needed.
- Mass
media campaigns reduce youth and adult smoking. This is especially so
when accompanied by other strategies in comprehensive
tobacco control programs. Media messages that perform most strongly
use negative emotion to communicate serious health consequences of smoking
- these perform well across different age and
race/ethnic groups. Better funding is needed to ensure reach to all Australians.
See full
report, executive summary, translations, fact sheets, and other products.
Public Health Advocacy and Tobacco
Control: Making Smoking History
A major book on advocacy and tobacco control by Simon Chapman, editor of
Tobacco Control journal (and ASH board member). Overview,
contents and orders here
globaltobaccocontrol.org
A new interactive resource from the Institute for Global Tobacco Control at the Johns Hopkins
Bloomberg School of Public Health (US). Includes free
online training, dedicated to enhancing knowledge about global tobacco
control. A good source for research and policy guidance on how to stem
the global epidemic of tobacco-related deaths. Designed
for policymakers,
researchers, health professionals/educators, students and
more.
Deaths
from smoking
Great new website
from UICC (International Union for Cancer Control) and others, featuring
Powerpoint presentations on smoking hazards, benefits of quitting,
messages for middle-aged smokers, facts and tables on country
impacts etc, and slideshows on
smoking deaths from 40 countries (including Australia) and various
regional and other groupings.
BBC
world rundown on smoking bans
BBC News site gives a thumbnail update from various countries on smoking
bans and other tobacco control legislation, as government battle to stub
out the epidemic.
Global
Tobacco Research Network (GTRN)
April 2005: New network, specifically
created to serve the needs of the international community of tobacco
control researchers. The site includes in-depth and searchable
researcher profiles, clearinghouse of training and funding
opportunities, international tobacco control literature database, links
to important tobacco control data sources, technical resources and
tools, interactive Tobacco Atlas and the Research Assistance Matching
Program (Project RAM). Visit, send input to the GTRN Coordinating Center
via the site email address, and also share with GTRN information and
resources which would be of benefit to the research community.
The
Health Consequences of Smoking 2004
US Surgeon-General's latest report. Very comprehensive. Includes
what the report means to you, flash animations, pdf and htm links.
Invaluable resource.
Tobacco
News and Information
Gene Borio's fully searchable tobacco news archive. You can enter a
search term and find collected news coverage from every part of the
world permanently archived. Any tobacco news item you may have
remembered reading or hearing about in the last decade - it will be
here.
"Hooked
on tobacco": New Internationalist
June 2004: Good brief, informative articles and graphics on tobacco's worldwide
health harm, environmental and social impacts, economic and trade
problems, and more.
The
International Tobacco Control Library
From Tobaccofreekids (US), an advocate's treasure chest of
tobacco control materials from around the world.
TobaccoFactFile
Online database launched by the Tobacco Control Resource Centre (TCRC).
A “one-stop” resource about tobacco, designed for health
professionals, media, educators and the public. Endorsed by
a wide range of health organisations and leaders.
Tobacco
Atlas
Very
comprehensive WHO publication - includes worldwide research and
background on tobacco health, economics, youth, women, sports, history,
religion, advocacy, WHO/FCTC info, much more.
Treatobacco
Useful international site for health professional, policy-makers and
regulators. Research and background on health effects, interventions,
economics, policy & more. Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
with input from WHO, World Bank, CDC, Cochrane and others.
Tobacco
Control
Resource Center Fact Sheets
Fact sheets on
tobacco advertising, economics of tobacco, the nurse's role, second-hand
smoke, prevalence surveys, product regulation, tobacco smuggling, youth
and cigarettes.
Framework Convention on Tobacco
Control (FCTC)
A World Health Organisation initiative to address issues as diverse
as tobacco advertising and promotion, agricultural diversification,
smuggling, taxes and subsidies.
Framework
Convention Alliance
Over 200 organisations from more than 80 countries are involved in
this alliance, which aims to make the worldwide tobacco treaty (FCTC -
see above) effective. This is their redesigned and much improved
website.
GlobaLink
The International Tobacco Control Community, managed by the
International Union Against Cancer. Provides information and
communication for all those active in smoking prevention. To access this
site you need to be a member and have a password. Globalink
has a very useful page (http://books.globalink.org/) which links
to book relevant to tobacco control. If you have published a book, or
recommend a book that you would like to see go up on the list, please
send a .jpg or .gif file of the cover, plus details of purchase and any
short (1 para max) review-style comments to Harold Colomes at Globalink
who will update the site. More info: email colomes@globalink.org
.
Tobacco Control
A quarterly scientific journal that considers all aspects of tobacco
prevention and control. Includes published articles, papers and links.
Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
US Centres for Disease Control site with general info about tobacco, current news and events, research, data and
reports categorised by topic, new tobacco-related citations and
educational materials.
TOBACCOpedia
Online tobacco encyclopedia, developed by the International Union
Against Cancer and the University of Sydney.
WHO Tobacco Free Initiative
Information about World Health Organisation tobacco control
initiatives, major international reports, and WHO publications, reports
and fact sheets.
Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco
Control
The result of a partnership between WHO and the World Bank, this
report covers key issues that most societies and policymakers face when
they think about tobacco or its control.
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