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
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
Tobacco Advertising and Women:
Gallery of tobacco ads, some exploiting women, some targetting
women.
http://users.wclynx.com/theshaws/adsmodernwomen.html?
Young Women and Smoking:
"Each day in the United Stated about 1,500 girls being smoking.
Nearly all first use of tobacco occurs before high school
graduation...Data show an abrupt increase in smoking initiation in
girls under age 18 around 1967, when tobacco advertising introduced
specific brands of cigarettes for women."
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
Mothers and Daughters Race Against Teen Smoking:
NCWH provides means for mother, daughters, teens, family and friends
to emerge as community co-leaders in fighting against tobacco
addiction, while helping young women with healthier routes to
self-esteem.
http://www.smokefreewomen-kids.org/
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
Smoking and Reproduction:
ASH-UK Factsheet covers smoking and cervical cancer, fertility,
pregnancy, menopause, oral contraceptives, fetal growth and birth
weight, spontaneous abortion, complications of pregnancy, perinatal
mortality, secondhand smoke and pregnancy, children's health and
long-term growth.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact07.html
You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the
Developing World:
Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking =
liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's
exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally.
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0032/otis.shtml
Japan Ads Sell Women On Smoking:
US tobacco companies run ads in Japan for brands such as Virginia
Slims using images of liberated, Western, cosmopolitan women. Over
the same period, the number of female smokers has climbed, young
women in particular
Women Suffer Huge Rise in Lung Disease:
Chronic lung disease in women almost doubled in the 1990s as smoking
began to show its effects.
http://www.sunday-times.co.uk:80/news/pages/tim/2000/08/22/timnwsnws01008.html
Countering Tobacco Marketing Towards Females:
The National Coalition FOR Women AGAINST Tobacco reports that
advertising that targets women and girls has actually increased
since the tobacco settlement.
http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/blwomagtob.htm
Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women:
Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women
have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking
campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/11/981120080005.htm
Women and Tobacco:
WHO report. Women as the tobacco industry sees them; health effects
of tobacco specific to women; women's brands and 'light' cigarettes.
http://tobacco.who.int/page.cfm?pid=49
Facts on Women and Tobacco:
Fact sheet from the Center for Disease Control (CDC).
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/christy/women.htm
The Wrong Way to Stay Slim:
Editorial from the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the
connection between body image, advertising, and smoking.
http://www.nejm.org/content/1995/0333/0018/1214.asp
Philip Morris: National Expert on Women:
Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations
Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position
itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women's issues".
http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddpmexpertonwomen.html
Mediascope Issue Briefs - Women and Smoking:
Factsheet, all sources cited; tobacco industry promotion to women;
smoking and women's health.
http://www.mediascope.org/pubs/ibriefs/ws.htm
Tobacco and Women - Trends and Strategies for Quitting:
Dr. Susan Stewart gives the trends, the outcomes, and your personal
options in ordinary language.
http://TheDoctorWillSeeYouNow.com/articles/womens_health/smokingcess_4/index.shtml
Smoking is a Women's Issue:
Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids covers harm to women
from tobacco products, promotion to women and girls by the tobacco
industry.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/women/
Fatal Attraction: Lifting the Smokescreen:
Offers a women's guide to stopping smoking, and information for
healthcare professionals.
http://www.liftingthesmokescreen.org.uk/
Catching Our Breath: A Journal About Change for Women who Smoke:
Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must
overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also
explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without
smoking.
http://www.cwhn.ca/resources/breath/index.html
The New Face of Tobacco: Women:
Znet article surveys tobacco industry marketing to women in the US
and worldwide.
http://lists.essential.org/pipermail/intl-tobacco/2001q2/000454.html
ivillage: Smoking and Women:
Why tobacco products are more harmful to women; dimensions of the
problem nationally; quitting; prevention.
http://www.ivillagehealth.com/library/nwh/content/0,4482,215912_227354,00.html
Women's Cigarette Market:
1973 R. J. Reynolds memo discusses it marketing strategies targeting
women.
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/mangini/html/v/147/otherpages/allpages.html
The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking:
Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter24/table_of_contents_chap24.html
The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility:
Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and
menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter14/table_of_contents_chap14.html
Background on Women & Girls and Tobacco:
Campaign For Tobacco-Free Kids backgrounder covers cigarette
promotions targeting women and girls. In PDF.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0137.pdf
Virginia Slims Press Conference:
Public health and ethnic leaders assembled to expose Philip Morris
ads targeting ethnic women.
http://www.apiahf.org/programs/apiten/virginia_slims.html
Smoking Cessation During Pregnancy:
Webcast video to help pregnant women stop smoking.
http://www.cicatelli.org/aboutcai/women/smokingcessation.htm
Higher death risk for women smokers:
Women are twice as likely to develop an untreatable form of lung
cancer than men, according to the UK's biggest lung cancer study.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_225000/225928.stm
Virginia SLAM!:
Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the
Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM!
produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo
Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry
out of music.
http://www.drdonnica.com/display.asp?article=3409
Zyban may be better than nicotine to help women snuff tobacco habit:
Recent research finds Zyban is more effective than nicotine patches
or gum for women quitting smoking.
http://www.oregonlive.com/science/oregonian/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/ html_standard.xsl?/base/news/102077262719067260.xml
Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks:
Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting
widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on
smoking.
http://healthfactsandfears.com/featured_articles/may2002/magazines051602.html
Sluts against Butts:
Features women bent on holding the tobacco companies responsible.
http://www.slutsagainstbutts.com
Women and Smoking:
Discusses effects of smoking on women and the steps to smoking
cessation.
http://www.womenandsmoking.com/cessation.html
Smokey Imagery and the 7 Deadly Myths:
Oxygen.com describes tobacco industry use of images of thin,
liberated women, enjoying an active, love-filled life, to get women
to smoke.
http://www.oxygen.com/health/healthyliving/smoking/smoking3.jhtml
Women and Smoking:
A 2001 report of the U.S. Surgeon General which includes patterns of
tobacco used among women, graphs, statistical data, how to quit,
state information, links.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr_forwomen.htm
Independence From Smoking:
National Women's Health Information Center provides information and
resources to empower women and girls, and the people they love, to
gain independence from smoking.
http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm
Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report:
The marked increase in the number of women who die each year from
tobacco products has led the surgeon general to call smoking-related
disease among women a full-blown epidemic.
http://www.usmedicine.com/dailyNews.cfm?dailyID=24
Speakers Kit: Tobacco and Women:
Slides ready for presentation on tobacco advertising and women,
diseases caused by tobacco, myths and facts about tobacco and
cancer, smoking and reproductive health, and secondhand smoke and
women.
http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/04/ppt_pages/f_set/f_01.htm
Background on Women and Girls and Tobacco:
Pamphlet from the Partnership for Smoking or Health (Missouri health
group).
http://www.moalpha.org/docs/news/tob_partnership/women_background.html
Tobacco, and Women and Young People:
Chapter from a book by the British Medical Association examines
women and smoking.
http://www.bma.org.uk/tcrc.nsf/4723e4b3bbc9362e802566e300360f8e/ e9649e91b76c48178025688f0052751b?OpenDocument
Torches of Freedom:
Themes of Women's Liberation in American Cigarette Advertising; a
paper presented at the Southwest / Texas Popular Culture Association
Convention. In PDF.
http://www.rtvf.unt.edu/people/craig/pdfs/torches.PDF
States, Women's Groups Slow To Address Women's Smoking:
Article examines why women's groups spend almost no time fighting
lung cancer, even though it kills more women than breast cancer.
http://www.cancerpage.com/cancernews/cancernews2749.htm
Smoking Is Ugly:
Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of
smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died
of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer
combined" Facts and quitting info.
http://www.smokingisugly.com/
Women and Smoking:
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign features real
women battling very real tobacco-related illnesses light emphysema,
lung cancer, and throat cancer, and highlights their real parting
letters to their family and loved ones.
http://women.americanlegacy.org/
Smoking: A Guide for Teens:
Center for Young Women's Health in Boston provides short factsheet
aimed at teen women.
http://www.youngwomenshealth.org/smokeinfo.html
The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes:
Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine
numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the
smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.
http://wcn.org/interior.cfm?contentid=10458&contentfile=fa.cfm&contenttypeid=8&featureid=2 &diseaseid=7&pagetype=detail&page=1
16. Women and smoking:
Chapter in a book on smoking in Australia.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c16.htm
Marketing Cigarettes to Women - Fact Sheet:
CDC pamphlet covers history of cigarette advertising strategies,
current advertising strategies, sponsorships and promotions, and
global advertising strategies.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/christy/Marketing.htm
Adverse Effects of Tobacco Smoking on Reproduction:
"Cigarette smoking is not only harmful to an individual. It is
particularly detrimental during the reproductive period, when it may
not only harm the unborn child, but may also damage the reproductive
capacity of the next generation."
This Kills Women: Do Feminist Groups Even Care?:
Washington Post article examines why women's groups say little about
the leading cause of preventable death among women; one factor
covered is tobacco industry money accepted by women's groups.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A2379-2001Apr10¬Found=true
Recruiting Women Smokers: The Engineering of Consent:
Summarizes research on how cigarette advertisers structure their
messages and images to get more women to smoke.
http://www.ohd.hr.state.or.us/tobacco/studies/women.cfm
Smoke-Free Families: Materials for Pregnant Smokers:
Benefits of quitting for you and your baby, resources that will help
you quit smoking and stay quit, and how to contact Smoke-Free
Families.
http://www.smokefreefamilies.org/forsm.html
Cigarettes Cause More Damage to Women:
Recent research finds that cigarettes cause more disease in women.
http://www.ingenta.com/isis/searching/ExpandTOC/ingenta?issue=infobike://ers/erj/ 2003/00000021/00000006&index=19&WebLogicSession=PtuQ4NQDFLsPuq8Q 4sSB|6488290806610947403/-1052814329/6/7051/7051/7052/7052/7051/-1
Cigarette Ads Targetting Women:
A collection of cigarette ads targetting women, from a gallery of
cigarette ads.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand=&marketing_type= &type=&company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern=women&records_per_page=10 &sorted_by=&submit.x=55&submit.y=17
Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising:
You've come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slimds ads
shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70's.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/index.php?tdo_code=pollay_ads&brand= Virginia+Slims&marketing_type=&type= &company=&date_begin=&date_end=&pattern= &records_per_page=10&sorted_by=&submit.x=60&submit.y=9
