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Foothill College's Tobacco Education and Smoking Cessation Program
www.foothillcollege.org/smokescreen
Use the "tips to quit" page or the "facts, links and resources" page.

POSTERS from Foothill's program (for HSACCC members only)

California's Smokers' Helpline
www.nobutts.ucsd.edu
A FREE service that helps people quit smoking. Operated by UC San Diego and funded by the Department of Health Services. 1-800-NO-BUTTS.

Centers for Disease Control
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
Tobacco Information and Prevention source (TIPS).

Big Tobacco Sucks
www.BigTobaccoSucks.org
The charter of the campaign is to mobilize college students to use the investment power of their universities to challenge the global tobacco industry's violation of human rights, public health and the environment.

The Truth
www.TheTruth.com
Dedicated to exposing the truth about tobacco so that people can take control and make fully informed decisions for themselves.

Youth Media Network
www.ymn.org/tobacco/facts.shtml
A statewide project of the California Department of Health Services. YMN encourages students to use the "Power of Communication".

Journal of the American Medical Association
jama.ama-assn.org/
Use their search tool to access tobacco articles.

Surgeon General's Virtual Office
www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/
Tobacco Cessation Guidelines. New findings about the latest drugs and counseling techniques for treating tobacco use and dependence. Great quitting techniques in .pdf format for printing.

Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
www.ash.org
Everything For People Concerned About Smoking and Nonsmokers' Rights, Smoking Statistics, Quitting Smoking, Smoking Risks, and other Smoking information."

American Heart Association (AHA)
www.americanheart.org
Fighting Heart Disease and Stroke. Use the search tool.

California Department of Health Services - Tobacco Control Section (TCS)
www.dhs.ca.gov/tobacco/
The mission of the Tobacco Control Section is to work toward achieving a tobacco-free California, and to reduce illness and premature deaths attributable to tobacco by implementing programs to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.

American Lung Association
You can participate in local, state and national politics by simply sending messages to the people "in charge". It is easy to be an activist with the help of the Internet. Sign up to advocate the easy way over the Internet by going to www.californialung.org and lungaction.org and join the campaign. It is as easy as adding your name to form letters and pushing "send". When your Representatives in Sacramento or Washington D.C. receive a number of faxes, letters and emails on an issue, they listen. Take action; it's easy.

Join the American Lung Association of California Advocacy Network.

Take action and send an email at lungaction.org.




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