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- American Cancer Society
- Committed to fighting cancer through research, education, advocacy, service, and rehabilitation.
www.cancer.org
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American Heart Association- Works to reduce disability and death from cardiovascular diseases and stroke, including heart attack, stroke, and related disorders.
www.americanheart.org
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- American Legacy Foundation
- Works with other organizations to decrease the use of tobacco in the United States. Funds programs that work toward reducing tobacco use by youths, and support programs to help individuals quit smoking.
www.americanlegacy.org
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- American Lung Association
- Dedicated to the prevention of lung disease and the promotion of lung health through research, education, and advocacy. Fights lung disease in all forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control, and environmental health.
www.lungusa.com
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Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights- Lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers’ rights while taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth from tobacco addiction.
www.no-smoke.org
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- CDC Secondhand Smoke Toolkit
- Designed to provide the tools needed to take action to reduce secondhand smoke in communities.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ETS_Toolkit/index.htm
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- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Tobacco Information & Prevention Source (TIPS)
The Office on Smoking and Health is a division within the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion which is one of the centers within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
www.cdc.gov/tobacco
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Community Tool Box: Cultural Competence in a Multicultural World- Covers a range of topics related to cultural competence including understanding cultures and multicultural collaboration. Each topic includes an overview, tools, and links to related areas of community programs.
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu/tools/EN/chapter_1027.htm
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- Community Toolbox
- Provides information and step-by-step guidelines on how to achieve community health and development through leadership, strategic planning, community assessment, advocacy, grant writing, funding, and evaluation.
http://ctb.lsi.ukans.edu
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- Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention
- Dedicated to combating alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino Communities through research, policy analysis, community education, training, and information dissemination.
www.nlcatp.org
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- Legacy’s Truth Campaign
- Committed to exposing the hard truth about tobacco so that people can have all of the information necessary for making their own decisions concerning tobacco use.
www.thetruth.com
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- March of Dimes
- Works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects and infant mortality. Funds programs of research, community services, education, and advocacy to save babies.
www.marchofdimes.com
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- Moving Toward Health: Achieving Parity through Tobacco Control for All Communities
- Toolkit prepared to serve as an introductory document to engage tobacco control advocates and other interested parties in a dialogue on parity — hopefully leading to action and the elimination of tobacco disparities.
www.appealforcommunities.org
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- National African American Tobacco Prevention Network
- Provides technical support to African Americans interested in reducing tobacco use in their community.
www.naatpn.org
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- National Association of Lesbian, Gay, & Bisexual Community Centers
- Assists in coordinating existing smoke-free initiatives and prepare community centers to carry out tobacco programming such as prevention programs, media campaigns, peer organizing, cessation programs, and developing policies around tobacco industry donations.
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Features samples of tobacco industry ads and LGBT tobacco prevention and control ads.
www.lgbtcenters.org/tobacco.htm
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- National Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
- Working to protect children from tobacco and create a healthier environment by deglamorizing tobacco use, changing public policy, partnerships, education, and advocacy.
www.tobaccofreekids.org
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- National Cancer Institute-Tobacco Control Research Branch
- Provides recommendations to the scientific and public health communities by synthesizing and disseminating research findings.
www.tobaccocontrol.cancer.gov
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- Out of Many One
- Assists community-based organizations; and federal, state and local government agencies to build effective multicultural coalitions addressing minority health and health disparities.
www.outofmany1.org
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- Partnership for Prevention
- Develops and advances policies and programs by uniting the health interests of private organizations and federal, state, and local governments.
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Main services include educational briefings, policy research, and forums for governments and private organizations to forge agendas.
www.prevent.org
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- Smoke Free Homes Project
- National effort to train pediatric clinicians in the effective methods to reduce children’s secondhand smoke exposure through parental smoking cessation and harm reduction.
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Features latest news, updates, and alerts on tobacco and secondhand smoke; a patient and consumers section featuring health tips and other resources; and resources for professionals, including links to various organizations committed to the effort.
www.kidslivesmokefree.org
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- The Praxis Project
- National Program Office for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Policy Advocacy on Tobacco & Health, an initiative that provides grants, technical assistance, and training to support tobacco policy advocacy in diverse communities. Supports local policy changes for health justice.
www.thepraxisproject.org
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- Tobacco BBS
- Resource center focusing on tobacco and smoking issues.x
Features tobacco news, information, assistance for smokers trying to quit, alerts on tobacco control issues, and open consideration of all aspects of the spectrum of issues concerning tobacco, nicotine, cigarettes, and cigars.
www.tobacco.org
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- World Health Organization (WHO) - Tobacco Free Initiative
- Focuses international attention, resources, and action on the global tobacco pandemic that kills four million people a year today. Their message and challenge — Every tobacco death is preventable.
http://tobacco.who.int
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