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Written by women for women; explores some of the problems women must overcome to quit smoking, or to reduce the amount they smoke. Also explores why women smoke as well as ways to cope and relax without smoking.
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The Truth About : Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.
Virginia SLAM! : Leslie Nuchow began Virginia SLAM! as a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music. Virginia SLAM! produced two SLAM! concerts in 1997 and 1998, featuring the Indigo Girls and Shawn Mullins that focused on keeping the tobacco industry out of music.
Women's Health Project: Tobacco Advertising and Women : NOW Foundation fact sheet.
Christy Turlington: Not Just A Cover Model- A Role Model : Turlington writes about her own story of tobacco addiction and losing a loved one to lung cancer. (May 14, 2001)
OnHealth: Smokeless Tobacco Increases Breast Cancer Risk : Spit tobacco increases a woman's risk of breast cancer. (May 9, 2000)
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.
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. (March, 1999)
You're Going Too Far, Baby: Cigarette Makers Woo Women in the Developing World : Village Voice article. Tobacco industry developed its "smoking = liberation" message for women in the U.S. in the 1970's; now it's exporting that message to promote tobacco to women globally. (August 15, 2000)
Women's Magazines Cover Up Health Risks : Congressional testimony on why women's magazines, while reporting widely on health topics, have a near complete lack of coverage on smoking.
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Health Tip: Keep a Health Journal (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- When your doctor asks you about any
illnesses, injuries or past procedures, there's no need to commit it all
to memory if you keep a health journal. |
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Health Tip: Screening for Cancer (HealthDay)
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The best way to get a good prognosis when it comes to cancer is to get
diagnosed as early as possible -- and that's where cancer screening tests
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Is Smoking Tougher on Women? (HealthDay)
HealthDay - SUNDAY, Oct. 25 (HealthDay News) -- Women may be more vulnerable
than men to the carcinogens and other noxious substances in cigarette
smoke, a growing body of research suggests. |
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Health Tip: If You Smoke While Pregnant (HealthDay)
HealthDay - (HealthDay News) -- If you smoke while pregnant, you're exposing
the baby to a host of dangerous chemicals, the American College of
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