Annex 1: Links

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• World Health Organization
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• World Bank
• Global Networks for Tobacco Prevention and Control
• Research and Programmatic Resource
• Online Internal Tobacco Industry Documents Search Tools
• Internationally-focused organisations with important documentation
• Tobacco Control Advocacy Links
• Youth anti-tobacco campaigns specialising in community organising and/or counter-marketing

World Health Organization

http://www.who.int

The World Health Organization site provides links to departments in WHO working on tobacco and young people. It includes:

• The WHO Tobacco Free Initiative: http://www5.who.int/tobacco
• WHO School Health and Youth Health Promotion: http://www5.who.int/school-youth-health
• WHO Child and Adolescent Health and Development: http://www.who.int/child-adolescent-health/

WHO is also secretariat, guiding the treating making process of the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC): http://www.who.int/gb/fctc/

WHO documents on tobacco and young people include:

• WHO Tobacco and the Rights of the Child Document: http://www5.who.int/tobacco/repository/stp53/CRCreport.pdf
• What in the World Works? http://www5.who.int/tobacco/repository/stp54/singreport.pdf
• Tobacco Free Initiative: Meeting on Religion and Tobacco http://www5.who.int/tobacco/repository/tpc52/religioneng.pdf
• Information Series on School Health: http://www5.who.int/school-youth-health/main.cfm?p=0000000651

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

http://www.cdc.gov/

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a Tobacco Information and Prevention Source with general information about tobacco, current news and events, research, data and reports categorised by topic: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco

WHO and CDC developed the Global Youth Tobacco Survey to track tobacco use among youth across countries using a common methodology and core questionnaire. Here you can find links to the GYTS Questionnaire and GYTS Country Summary Findings: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/global/GYTS.htm

World Bank

The report: Curbing the Epidemic: Governments and the Economics of Tobacco Control covers key issues about tobacco or its control: http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/book/html/cover2a.html

Global Networks for Tobacco Prevention and Control

• Union of International Cancer Control's Globalink is an electronic network of people working on tobacco control. It can offer valuable information and advice: http://www.globalink.org
• International Non Governmental Coalition Against Tobacco: http://www.ingcat.org/
• The Framework Convention Alliance is an alliance of non-governmental organisations from around the world who are working jointly and separately to support the development of a strong Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, and related protocols: http://www.fctc.org/

Research and Programmatic Resources

• Tobacco Control Online Journal (free to those in low income countries): http://tc.bmjjournals.com/
• TOBACCOpedia - online tobacco encyclopaedia: http://www.tobaccopedia.org
• Canadian National Clearing House on Tobacco Control: http://www.ncth.ca/NCTHweb.nsf

Online Internal Tobacco Industry Documents Search Tools

• Tobacco Documents Online: http://tobaccodocuments.org/
• UCSF Online Library of Tobacco Documents: http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/

Internationally-focused organisations with important documentation

ASH/UK: http://www.ash.co.uk/

The ASH/UK report Trust Us: We're the Tobacco Industry details the tobacco industries' strategic use of public relations (including health education and access restriction) on youth and tobacco issues: http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/trustus.html

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has reports on global marketing to young people:

• "How Do You Sell Death?": http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/FCTCreport2.pdf
• Global Advertising: http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/docs/advertising.pdf
• Facts about tobacco industry and global use: http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/docs/facts.pdf
• Tobacco prices and public health: http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/docs/prices.pdf
• School and community-based education programms: http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/docs/programs.pdf
• Youth access policies: http://tobaccofreekids.org/campaign/global/docs/youth.pdf

ENYPAT: http://www.ktl.fi/enypat/

ENYPAT aims to prevent tobacco use among young people through European-wide collaboration, information exchange and programme building.

Global Partnerships for Tobacco Control: http://www.essentialaction.org/tobacco/

The program pairs groups in the United States and Canada with groups in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union, and assists them in initiating meaningful shared activities

Tobacco Control Advocacy Links

• DMOZ Tobacco Activism Links http://dmoz.org/Health/Addictions/Substance_Abuse/Tobacco/Activism/
• University Campus Tobacco Control Organizing: http://www.bigtobaccosucks.org/
• Tobacco Free Kids Youth Action Links: http://tobaccofreekids.org/youthaction/links

Youth anti-tobacco campaigns specialising in community organising and/or counter-marketing

• ADIC (Russia): http://www.adic.org.ua/nosmoking/
• ASH/Thailand: http://www.ashthailand.or.th/en/index.php
• ADIC/Colombo: http://www.lanka.net/adic/index.html
• The National Truth (USA): http://www.thetruth.com/html/index.cfm?id=1
• Target Market, Minnesota, USA: http://www.tmvoice.com/index.asp
• Whole TRUTH: Florida, USA: http://www.wholetruth.com/
• Outrage Avenue Washington, USA: http://www.outrageavenue.com/
• I.D. Illinois, USA: http://www.idecide4me.com/
• Get Outraged, Massachusetts, USA: http://www.getoutraged.com/
• Oklahoma S.W.A.T. Oklahoma, USA chapter of S.W.A.T: http://www.okswat.com/
• Question It, Mississippi, USA: http://www.questionit.com/
• Just Eliminate Lies (J.E.L.), USA: http://www.jeliowa.org/
• F.A.C.T. Wisconsin, USA: http://216.205.19.254/

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