Smokeless Tobacco Resources
National Cancer Institute Spit Tobacco Page (under construction) -
comprehensive smokeless tobacco site with information on health effects,
prevalence, quitting methods, regulations and policies, and a special
section for youth.
Texas Medical Association - home page providing a variety of
tobacco-related information. Smokeless tobacco page includes listing of
variety of self-help and cessation brochures and instructional materials
for individuals, health practitioners, and educators.
Quit Tobacco - commercially sponsored tobacco education for oral
tobacco users with information on cessation methods, health professional
resources, news related to oral tobacco, and other miscellaneous
features and links.
Smokeless Tobacco Fact Pages
American Academy of Pediatrics - smokeless tobacco fact page with
chemical composition, addictive properties, and tips for quitting.
California Dental Association - fact sheet on dental effects of
smokeless tobacco use.
Connecticut Clearinghouse - fact sheet on smokeless tobacco use.
Healthway Online - page providing clinical description of tobacco
history, effects, and health risks.
Mayo Clinic - smokeless tobacco fact page focusing on the myths
behind oral tobacco use.
General Tobacco Resources (Government/Non-Profit)
Centers for Disease Control - tobacco information prevention source
providing overview, current tobacco related events, Surgeon General
reports, research, data, and reports categorized by topic, how to quit
guides, recent citations, educational materials, publications, comments
and questions, resources and links to other tobacco related sites, and a
search engine for smoking and health-related topics or the entire CDC
database.
Department of Health and Human Services - searchable index on a
variety of health topics.
Action on Smoking and Health - legal-action antismoking organization
focusing primarily on tobacco-related current events and legislation.
American Cancer Society - searchable home page for ACS.
American Council on Science and Health - health sciences home page
covering a variety of topics. Tobacco section includes press releases,
publications, editorials magazine articles and links to other tobacco
resources.
American Dental Association - page on tobacco-related information
with sections on patients and consumers, ADA News Daily, ADA news
releases, JADA previews, Washington report, research and clinical
issues, and consumer information.
American Medical Association - home page of the AMA with
wide-ranging information on health-related topics.
Tobacco.org - web site of advocacy organization with up-to-date news
on issues related to tobacco and archives of past news reports.
World Health Organization Tobacco Free Initiative page - promotion
of tobacco awareness with information from the WHO's director-general,
press releases, fact sheets, WHO publications, technical reports,
journal articles, resolutions, the WHO Tobacco Alert bulletin, and links
to other tobacco-related sites.
last updated January 1999; links last verified June 1999
