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Useful Websites
The following are links to websites that provide a comprehensive range of information about smoking and tobacco control as well as a range of help and advice for anyone wishing to give up smoking:
No Smoking Day
Information about No Smoking Day on Wednesday 12th March
Achieving Smoke Freedom Toolkit
Practical advice from the CIEH.
CIEH website (www.cieh.org/research/smokefree/index.htm)
Ash
Ash is one of the best known organisations that promote a 'smokefree' environment. The website provides a wide range of information and news as well as providing an 'Achieving Smoke Freedom' toolkit for employers.
Ash Website (www.ash.org.uk)
British Heart Foundation
Why smoking puts you at high risk from heart disease.
British Heart Foundation website (www.bhf.org.uk/smoking)
COST (Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco)
Website dedicated to stopping children smoking.
COST website (www.costkids.org/trueads/trueadframeset.htm)
Doctors and Tobacco
Medical practitioners from eight countries have developed a tobacco control resource centre. This website provides lots of hardhitting facts in a punchy style.
Doctors and Tobacco website (www.doctorsandtobacco.org)
Go Smokefree
NHS website providing plenty of reasons for going smokefree.
Go Smokefree website (www.gosmokefree.co.uk)
Netdoctor.co.uk - Smoking Health Risks
An explanation of the risks to your health if you smoke.
Netdoctor website (www.netdoctor.co.uk/health_advice/facts/smokehealth.htm)
QUIT
QUIT is the independent charity whose aim is to save lives by helping smokers to stop.
QUIT website (www.quit.org.uk)
Roy Castle Fagends Chat Room
A chat room where those in the process of giving up smoking can keep in touch with others in the same position.
Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation website (www.roycastle.org/fagends/chat.htm).
Smokefree England
Information on the new legislation coming into effect on 1 July 2007, and how you can play an important part in making England smokefree.
Smokefree England website (www.smokefreeengland.co.uk).
Smoking Curbs: The Global Picture
The BBC News website has traced the recent wave of smoking bans around the world as governments try to stub out the habit.
Smoking Curbs: The Global Picture (BBC News website feature) (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/3758707.stm)
Stop Smoking Challenge
Innovative ideas to help you give up smoking.
IVillage website (www.ivillage.co.uk/stopsmoking)
Tobacco Facts
Powerful website presenting the often shocking effects of smoking.
Tobacco Facts website (www.tobaccofacts.org/poster/index.html)
Ugly Smoking
The NHS's hard-hitting website which highlights some of the side effects smokers can expect to suffer.
Ugly Smoking website (www.uglysmoking.info)
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