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  • ASH - Action on Smoking and Health - Pressure group and registered UK charity, lobbying for a comprehensive national programme to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases. Excellent collection of links and resources.
  • Government Response - Government Response to the Health Select Committee's Second Report on the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking, published in October 2000
  • Guardian Unlimited - Special report: Smoking - Collection of Guardian articles on smoking, tobacco, secondhand smoke, politics, public policy.
  • Nicotine Addiction in Britain - Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
  • No Smoking Day - No Smoking Day comes once a year. The web site is available all year round to provide support for quitters and for professionals.
  • Passive Smoking Kills 1000 people a year - At least 1,000 people a year are dying from the effects of passive smoking yet the public enjoys less protection from other people's tobacco smoke than from the chimes of ice-cream vans, the British Medical Association says.
  • QUIT - Practical advice on giving up. Telephone helpline available.
  • quitsmokinguk.com - Kara Miller's independent Web site offers advice, forums and chat rooms for people who are trying to stop smoking.
  • Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health - Results of the government commissioned review of tobacco and its effects on Health. Published in 1998.
  • Rosen Stop Smoking Workshops - A stop smoking programme available to employers and to health clubs.
  • Smoke Free Birmingham - A guide to smoke free places in Birmingham, as well as information on how to quit.
  • Smoke-Free Oxfordshire - Group aims to reduce the risk of smoking to the health and welfare of the people in Oxfordshire. Information on smoking, tobacco, quitting, smokefree dining.
  • Smoking Kills - A White Paper on Tobacco - This official document outlines the government strategy to reduce smoking, published in 1998.
  • Smoking: Don't give up giving up - Official site produced by the NHS Health Education Authority. Useful advice on how to give up and you can ask for regular supportive e-mails.
  • Tobacco Control Resource Centre - Promotes tobacco control by working mainly with national medical associations in Europe. Encourages doctors to stop smoking and provides information to enable doctors to help their patients quit.
  • Wired for Health - Smoking - This is the smoking section of the government sponsored educational resource, Wired for Health, and provides facts about smoking intended to help teachers.
  • Search our Wiki for Substance Abuse Tobacco - Find more information about this subject by clicking here

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