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Useful Web Links

www.kdheks.gov/tobacco – Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Tobacco Use Prevention Program
www.no-smoke.org – Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights
www.ash.org – Everything for people concerned about smoking and nonsmokers’ rights
www.americanlegacy.org – Building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit
www.nci.nih.gov – National Cancer Institute
www.globalink.org – Global Tobacco Control
www.tobaccopedia.org – The online tobacco encyclopedia
www.lungusa.org – American Lung Association
www.americanheart.org – American Heart Association
www.cancer.org – American Cancer Society
www.tobaccoarchives.com – Provides access to tobacco company documents produced in litigations in the United States
www.tobaccovictims.org – “Dedicated to the 5 million people who die every year because of tobacco consumption…”
www.tobacco.org – For current news and information from newspapers, other publications and research materials from across the world
www.nstep.org – National Spit Tobacco Education Program

Quitting Tobacco: Information and Tips

www.kdheks.gov/tobacco/cessation.html – Kansas Tobacco Quitline
www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22931 – American Lung Association’s Smoking Cessation Support
www.nicotine-anonymous.org – Nicotine Anonymous offers help to those who wish to stop using nicotine
www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_7_Committing_to_quit.asp – American Cancer Society: How to quit effectively

Teen-Related Links

www.tobaccofreekids.org – Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
www.realitycheckny.com – A group of New York teens who won’t stand by and allow the tobacco industry to continuously try to manipulate us into smoking
www.thetruth.com – Get the facts about Big Tobacco’s manipulation
www.badvertising.org – Home of the honest tobacco ads
www.getrealcolorado.com – Colorado’s youth movement against the tobacco industry
www.kickbuttsday.org – Kick Butts Day: Youth across America who stand out, speak up, and seize control in the fight against tobacco

Second-Hand Smoke

www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/secondhandsmoke – The Health Consequences of Involuntary Exposure to Tobacco Smoke: A Report of the Surgeon General
www.tcsg.org/sfelp/home.htm – Smoke-Free Environments Law Project
www.smokefree.net – Fighting for smoke-free air
www.epa.gov/iaq/asthma/shs.html – Environment Protection Agency: Secondhand Smoke

Tobacco Control Coalitions in Kansas