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Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
Book review. (infos)Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women
NOW pamphlet. "Within six years of the tobacco industry's introduction of cigarette brands and ad campaigns targetting women, the number of girls smoking increased 110%." Factsheet and research references. (infos)
Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women
According to recent research. (infos)
Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic
World Health Organiziation fact sheet. (infos)
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. (infos)
Tobacco and Women's Health
Book review of book of same title. (infos)
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. (infos)
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. (infos)
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. (infos)
Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry
Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten. (infos)