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Generally considered to be the "Big Three" partners, especially in Michigan
www.cancer.org. American Cancer Society

www.lungusa.org. American Lung Association (see "Tobacco Control button at the top and scroll down on the home page for secondhand smoke). This website also hosts one of the most comprehensive cessation programs - American Lung's Freedom From Smoking (FFS) which along with Join Together's Quitnet www.tobaccofreeu.org does avery nice job with cessation - this is a site for college students set up by the BACCHUS/GAMMA Peer Education organization.

www.americanheart.org. American Heart Assocation

Special Purpose Sites
www.nstep.org. National Spit Tobacco Education project

www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu. Smoke Free Movies -a project of Dr. Stanton Glantz, co-author of The Cigarette Papers and Tobacco War, and professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco

www.nmmlp.org. New Mexico Media Literacy Project

www.nationallungcancerpartnership.org. Good lung cancer information. This group was originally formed (as Women Against Lung Cancer because lung cancer kills more women and men than breast cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer combined.

www.badvertising.org. "Welcome to BADvertising Country - Where a Picture is Worth a Thousand Lives." A very specialized web site for people doing counter advertising.
 

Best Web Resources for Tobacco Control Information

National
www.cdc.gov/tobacco - Federal Government - Center for Disease Control. Federal cessation resources may be found at www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco. This is not the same information as is listed under Surgeon General at the cdc.gov/tobacco website.

www.no-smoke.org - Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.

www.tobaccofreekids.org - Campaign for Tobacco-free Kids, also set up www.kickbuttsday.org for youth projects.

www.americanlegacy.org - American Legacy Foundation -also set up truth campaign that has been very powerful with youth - this is also found at www.thetruth.com.

www.ttac.org - Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium - currently supported by the American Legacy foundation. This site www.ttac.org/college provides excellent resources for institutions of higher education.

Michigan
http://www.michigan.gov/mdch/
0,1607,7-132-2490_3182_22973---,00.html  - Michigan Tobacco Resources.

http://www.michigan.gov/surgeongeneral/
0,1607,7-216-33084_33091_33302---,00.html Steps Up, includes Quit Line and Quit Kit numbers. Also lists local tobacco cessation resources by county (scroll down the alpha list).

www.tobaccofreemichigan.org - Tobacco Free Michigan

www.tcsg.org - The Center for Social Gerontology. Click on Smoke-Free Law Project, also MiSmokeFreeApartments.

www.makemiairsmokefree.org - Campaign for Smokefree Air (CSA) also see www.breathemi.org for employees in workplaces where smoking is allowed.

www.tobaccofreemichigan.org - Michigan Citizens for Smoke Free Michigan (smokefree dining guide)

www.counteradvertising.com - Features examples of counter advertising produced by youth in Southeast Michigan. Offers good web links and resources about counter advertising. Sponsored by the Wayne County Medical Society Foundation and the Henry Ford health System.