Non-Indigenous Tobacco Control
Worldwide
John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Global Tobacco Control Website
With a funding commitment of $125 million, the Bloomberg Global Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use represents the largest-ever effort to fight tobacco in the low- and middle-income countries that are now home to a majority of the world's smokers. This site offers free instructional training for policy makers, researchers, educators and the general public. They help participants develop and implement effective tobacco control programs, advocate for substantial anti-smoking regulations and craft media campaigns that make a difference. Their multimedia educational modules feature tobacco control experts from around the world. The curriculum was developed by faculty at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the premier source for research and policy guidance on how to stem the global epidemic of tobacco-related cancer deaths.
WHO: Tobacco
This webpage provides links to descriptions of activities, reports, news and events, as well as contacts and cooperating partners in the various WHO programmes and offices working on this topic. Also shown are links to related web sites and topics.
GLOBALink
Globalink is an international consortium of tobacco control organisations and their website offers news, reports and links to other information related to tobacco control.
Australia
Australian Council on Smoking and Health – ACOSH
This website out lines ACOSH’s role in tobacco control and provides information about its various tobacco control programs.
ASH Australia
This is a national health group dedicated to reducing tobacco diseases, disability and premature deaths caused by tobacco products. A non-government and not-for-profit organisation, ASH was established in 1994 by the Cancer Council NSW and the National Heart Foundation of Australia to protect and improve the health of the community through education, policy advice and information programs.
Department of Health and Ageing
A comprehensive Government site with a link to the National Tobacco Strategy and broader tobacco control policies such as taxation, pricing and advertising.
OxyGen
Tobacco information website for upper primary and secondary school aged kids. This is a website put together by Quit SA, WA and Vic.
The National Tobacco Campaign
A federal, state and territory health initiative supported by Population Health Division, Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing.
State Quitting Organisations
Tobacco Control Supersite
Recommended for tertiary student resources. Links to Tobacco Industry documents and other Australian and international information.
VicHealth Centre for Tobacco Control
This site provides information about the VCTC and its research well as links to important repositories of knowledge on tobacco control both here and overseas.
New Zealand
ASH New Zealand
This website contains current research, information on the tobacco industry and regular updates on the work of Action on Smoking and Health (ASH) New Zealand.
Ministry of Health
The Ministry is involved in a large number of policy aspects of tobacco control, and this site focuses on the major ones including: Clearing the Smoke: A five-year plan for tobacco control in New Zealand 2004-2009
National Drug Policy
This website contains a wide range of information on tobacco smoking and tobacco control in New Zealand, including statistics on smoking and illness, activities underway to reduce smoking by New Zealanders and global efforts to confront the tobacco epidemic.
Australian Quitting Resources
Quit book
Online version of Quit Victoria's 'Quit because you can' booklet. Includes information on the four main steps in giving up smoking. Step one: deciding to quit; Step two: getting ready to quit; Step three: quitting; Step four: staying a non-smoker.
'Background Briefs' (Quit Victoria)
Cover such topics as: Quitting methods and products, nicotine chewing gum, nicotine patches, what's in cigarettes, addiction, withdrawal, passive smoking, smoking pregnancy and infants, smoking rates, smoking related diseases, passive smoking, mental illness and smoking cessation.
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