Resources and useful links

Resources to help you find further information about tobacco control.  

Our partners

Cancer Council Victoria
Non-profit organisation. Core business is cancer prevention and control.
http://www.cancervic.org.au

Quit Victoria (Cancer Council Victoria)
Dedicated to eliminating the pain, illness and suffering caused by tobacco.
http://www.quit.org.au
 
Smokefree Victoria (Cancer Council Victoria)
Collaboration of organisations interested in improving the health of Victorians.
http://www.smokefree.org.au

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Research, policy and legislation

Victoria

Centre for Behavioural Research in Cancer (Cancer Council Victoria)
http://www.cancervic.org.au/about-our-research/centre_behavioural_research_cancer

Tobaccco reforms
Victorian Government health information.
http://www.health.vic.gov.au/tobaccoreforms/legislation.htm

LawStaff
National Children’s and Youth Law Centre
Includes information on state legislation in Australia, plus surveys and animations.
http://www.lawstuff.org.au 

Tobacco Act 1987
Victorian legislation and parliamentary documents.


 

Interstate and international

Oxygen
Quit South Australia, Quit Victoria, Smarter than Smoking
Includes interactives (What’s in a cigarette, How much it costs to smoke, What happens inside the body).
http://oxygen.org.au/

Teen Health Ages 12–17

Government of South Australia
Includes resources, podcasts.
http://www.cyh.com/subdefault.aspx?p=159

Joe Chemo
(for chemo patients and their families)
Adbusters

Includes interactives (Smoke-o-Scope, E-Cards, Test your tobacco IQ).
http://www.joechemo.org/

Stupid CA
Antitobacco Youth Movement (Canada)
Includes videos, resources for schools, advertising.
http://www.stupid.ca

Tobacco.org
Gene Borio
Free resource centre focusing on tobacco and smoking issues; includes world latest tobacco headlines, news archive.
http://www.tobacco.org/ads/?tdo_code=pollay_ads

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Advertising, movies and social marketing

 Adbusters
Adbusters magazine
Including: spoof alcohol and tobacco ads.
http://adbusters.org/spoofads/tobacco

Anti Smoking TV Ads
Private blog
Includes anti-smoking TV ads from around the world.
http://anti-smoking-ads.blogspot.com

SceneSmoking.org
Breathe California of Sacramento-Emigrant
Includes the impact of tobacco reference and tobacco in entertainment, week’s top 10 movies and their tobacco content.
http://www.scenesmoking.org/frame.htm

SmokeFree Movies
American Legacy Foundation
Includes ratings on tobacco content for movies showing in theatres as well as figures on relation between tobacco in movies and smoking uptake.
http://smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu