Links
Use the links below to help you find more information and resources on smoking, health, secondhand smoke, quitting smoking, and anti-tobacco advocacy. For more links to online quit-smoking resources, see the online smoking cessation programs page.
 | North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services Tobacco
Prevention and Control Branch http://www.communityhealth.dhhs.state.nc.us/tobacco.htm The NC DHHS TPCB hosts WorkingSmokeFree.com and provides local and statewide infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; mini-grants to local communities, the Grassroots Guide to Tobacco-Free Schools and more. | ||||||||
| EnTER Program http://www.fammed.unc.edu/enter/ The EnTER program is the Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Training, Education, and Research program. A collaborative effort of the UNC Department of Family Medicine, the NC DHHS Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch, North Carolina Advisory Committee for Cancer Coordination and Control, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the EnTER Program provides training, consultations, presentations, research, and evaluation on topics related to secondhand smoke. | ||||||||
| SAVE - Survivors and Victims (of tobacco) Empowerment Program http://www.tobaccosurvivors.org This organization provides presentations, stories about surviving tobacco-related illness and how secondhand affects individuals, and empowerment trainings for survivors | ||||||||
| American Cancer Society http://www.cancer.org The ACS provides local, statewide and national infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; at their website you can find fact sheets, information, and model smoke-free policies.
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| American Lung Association http://www.lungusa.org The ALA provides local, statewide and national infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; at their website you can find information, fact sheets, brochures and videos. | ||||||||
| American Heart Association http://www.americanheart.org The AHA provides local, statewide and national infrastructure to support smoke-free policies; at their website you can find information, fact sheets on secondhand smoke and clean indoor air ordinances. | ||||||||
| North Carolina Prevention Partners http://www.ncpreventionpartners.org NCPP is a statewide prevention health advocacy group that fosters partnerships, promotes tobacco prevention and influences policies. Their website has an excellent database of cessation resources in the state and in the nation, action alerts, and a report card on the state of health in North Carolina. | ||||||||
| Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights http://www.no-smoke.org The ANR website is an excellent resource, providing action alerts, fact sheets, sample letters & proposals, links, articles and quotes about tobacco prevention and control. | ||||||||
| Smoke-free Apartment House Registry http://www.smokefreeapartments.org This website supports smoke-free housing, and provides details on legal issues, model smoke-free policies and policy implementation tips that could be useful to any business. | ||||||||
| Smoke-Free Environments Law Project http://www.tcsg.org/sfelp/home.htm This program provides recent articles, links, public opinion polls, fact sheets, and more on creating smoke-free environments. | ||||||||
| Tobacco Control Resource Center http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/ETS/adainfo1.htm This website provides lots of information on how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) provides protection from secondhand smoke. | ||||||||
| Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) http://www.cdc.gov
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| National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) http://www.cancer.gov and http://www.nih.gov
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| “Health Effects Of Exposure To Environmental Tobacco Smoke" http://www.oehha.org/air/environmental_tobacco or http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/caets/ets-main.htm This report by the California Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) discusses in detail how exposure to secondhand smoke affects health. | ||||||||
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QuitNet | ||||||||
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Quit Smoking Support |
This page was last updated on June 17, 2003. Copyright © 2003 Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch, NC Department of Health and Human Services. All rights reserved. Click here for disclaimer.
