WEB Note: remember when you leave this web page, you can
always return by clicking your heels together and then clicking on the
"back" button on top of your screen. Reciting, "there's no place like chemistry"
will also help. The little home (house) button will get you back to the
page where you began your journey.
Check out the American
Cancer Society's site.
Here's a page directed towards preteens: Be
Smart Don't Start. Warning, graphic pictures of lungs are shown on
this page.
Tobacco NEWS:
Check out your representatives' pockets: are they lined with tobacco dollars?
A new searchable data base has
been made available by Michael Tacelosky. You can enter your zip code to
find out how much tobacco PAC money your representative has accepted. The
data base will also give you local tobacco action groups in your area and
alert you to local tobacco issues. You can also find out if they have signed
the "Commitment to our Children" letter or the anti-FDA letter.
Mother Jone's
"Whose line is
it anyway?" Test your ability to tell whether the quotes are from Bob
Dole or a Tobacco Company Spokesman.
Electronic Group Therapy!
A new IRC chat room for people who are trying to quit has been established
by Eric Bremenkamp (zedsdad@crocker.com)
at this server: irc.quarterdeck.com, the name of the room is quitsmoking,"
please distribute this information aggressively, so that the channel will
be filled to capacity at all times with supportive quitters!"
The former tobacco employees speak out.
The full texts of affidavits of Dr. Uydess and the other former Philip
Morris employees can be found here
on Gene Borio's magnificent web page.
Useful information:
Common
Solvents
Five
Easy Species: Four Acids and a Base.
Scientific
notation tutorial This site is provided by Ian Littlewood in the Physics
department at CSUS, it includes really fun radomized conversion exercises.
Research studies:
Cigarette tar toxicity studies at CSU Stanislaus and other intellectual
endeavors
Brown & Williamson
Collection Index
These are the infamous documents that tell all! The originals have
been scanned in and are presented as gif files. A complete CD-ROM version
will be available soon.
Top Notch Web Pages with Tobacco Information:
NicNet:The
Arizona Nicotine and Tobacco Network
Tobacco BBS Gene Borio's wonderful
collection of tobacco information, including a link to site with information
about anit-tobacoo and pro-tobacco bills that are presently making their
way through congress.
Jack Cannon's
Tobacco Industry Information page.
Included is the ABC memoradum supporting their case in the litigation
involving the Day One expose of Philip Morris. With all of this evidence,
why did ABC
cave in to BIG tobacco?
NEW: the deposition of Dr.
Jeffry Wigand for the case of the State of Missippi v. Brown and Williamson
has been added. This reads better than a John Grisham novel! Also, CBS
has announced that they will air their interview with Dr. Wigand on 60
minutes, February 4th.
Master Anti-smoking page
A list of links to many sites with anti-tobacco information, including
a forum where you can send your comments
Casual Casual
A www magazine with a Thank You for Not Smoking page.
Government stuff:
Unintended Consequences of
Cigarette Regulation
NIH
(gopher) information on smoking
Lung Cancer:
Lung Cancer,ONCOLINK
page
Links within the Lung cancer ONCOLINK pages:
To quit smoking:
Blair'sQuitting Smoking
Resource Pages
. Quit smoking
Stop Smoking in 1 Week!
Tobacco BBS
Anti Tobacco Advertising
These groups are involved in increasing public awareness about the advertising
habits of tobacco companies.
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This page was brought to you by Koni Stone, it was last updated July 2004. You can send e-mail to me: koni@chem.csustan.edu.