Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. Book review. http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/8/1/113a

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. http://www.now.org/foundation/health/whp/fact4.html

Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women According to recent research. http://ash.org/dangers/women.html

Smoking's a Drag for Women Article from the Toronto Sun about smoking cessation. http://www.canoe.ca/Health9902/07_linton.html

Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic World Health Organiziation fact sheet. http://www.who.int/inf-fs/en/fact176.html

ACSH: Health Advice in Women's Magazines: Up in Smoke? Dr. Elizabeth Whelan reviewed 13 magazines across 5 months, and finds they emphasize nonexistent or trivial health risks, while largely overlooking major causes of disease, particularly smoking. http://www.acsh.org/publications/priorities/0803/advice.html

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. http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/wms_0399.html

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. http://www.inwat.org/

Tobacco and Women's Health Book review of book of same title. http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/114

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. http://www.ceche.org/programs/tobacco/women/appeal.htm

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. http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/322/7299/1384

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. http://www.acsh.org/publications/reports/tobacco2001.html

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. http://cnn.com/HEALTH/women/9911/08/women.smoking.2.wmd/index.html

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. http://www.ritobaccocontrolnet.com/teengirl.htm

Smoking and Quitting for Women From the National Women's Health Information Center. http://www.forwoman.net/faq/smoking.htm

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. http://www.chem-tox.com/pregnancy/smoking.htm

The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women. http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/9/1/3

Women First - Smoking Cessation "For women approaching midlife, smoking cessation is the single most important change you can make to enhance your life expectancy." Collection of articles on smoking and quitting for women. http://www.womenfirst.com/healthLibrary.asp?article=40&x=12&y=12

Women and Smoking Chapter in a book on tobacco in the UK. http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld8.html

Tobacco as a Problem for Women Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women. http://bcn.boulder.co.us/community/abct/abctwndx.htm