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Review - The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery. Book review. 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. Cigarettes More Dangerous to Women According to recent research. Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic World Health Organiziation fact sheet. 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. 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. International Network of Women against Tobacco (INWAT) Founded in 1990 by women tobacco control leaders to address the complex issues of tobacco use among women and young girls. Tobacco and Women's Health Book review of book of same title. 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. 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. |
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