Policy

Special Issues

• Advocacy
• Women and Tobacco
• Tobacco Industry Monitoring

Advocacy

The Nightingales

A group of nurse activists who work to focus public attention on the behavior of the tobacco industry and its contribution to the preventable epidemic of tobacco-caused disease and death.

Altria Means Tobacco

In January of 2003, Philip Morris Companies officially changed its name to the Altria Group, Inc., claiming that the change was to clarify the relationships between the parent corporation and the operating companies. This website details other reasons for this change: to hide the “taint” of tobacco.

Framework Convention Alliance

The Framework Convention Alliance (FCA) is a heterogeneous alliance of non-governmental organizations from around the world who are working jointly and separately to support the development, signing, and ratification of an effective Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) and related protocols.

Corporate Accountability International

A website aimed at stopping the marketing of tobacco products.

ASH

A web site maintained by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH), a national organization devoted solely to the problems of smoking and to protecting nonsmokers' rights.

ANR 

American's for Non-smoker's Rights and the ANR Foundation.

The Truth Campaign

Anti-smoking site devoted to teen-aged activists.

Children and Tobacco  

American Legacy Foundation

The American Legacy Foundation is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.

Tobacco Free Kids

National Center for Tobacco Free Kids is a national organization aimed at protecting children from tobacco abuse. On their website, there is a section with current news regarding tobacco policy and legislation as it relates to children - visit the TobaccoFreeKids website.

Thetruth.com

A website aimed at children, adolescent and other young people to help educate them about tobacco use and the tobacco industry.

Women and Tobacco

4women.gov

The national women's health information center, with a special section on helping women quit smoking.

American Legacy Foundation® Announces Circle of Friends Grants

The American Legacy Foundation® has announced $570,000 in awards to 13 organizations across the country to support tobacco education, cessation, and prevention efforts involving women. Read more...

Save our Daughters

Provides information on women and smoking and ways to reduce tobacco's impact on women and girls.

Tobacco Industry Monitoring

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library

Containing over 7 million findings on advertising, marketing, sales, and scientific research on tobacco products, this site offers a variety of tobacco related documents.

Tobacco Products Liability Projects

Tobacco Law Center

Tobacco Control Archives at University of California San Francisco