Action on Smoking and Health (ASH): Nation's oldest and leading antismoking organization takes legal action and provides information about the problems and costs of smoking. Protects the rights of nonsmokers.
Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights: Works in favor of smokefree policies. Advocacy programs, local ordinances, news, effects of secondhand smoke, and critiques of tobacco industry actions.
Campaign for Nonsmokers' Rights: Supports a campaign for tobacco to be made an illegal drug, and for legal penalties for its cultivation, processing, trade, or consumption.
Federal Preemption Now a Barrier to Local Tobacco Ordinances: Short report from the Health Law and Policy Institute on case law affecting state regulation of tobacco promotion.
Non Smokers' Movement of Australia: Fighting the tobacco industry, tobacco advertising, smoking in public places and "all out-of-touch politicians who support this bogus industry". Newsletter with timely updates; publications and factsheets on tobacco history, industry strategies, and smokefree environments.
Partnerships Between Attorneys and Public Health Professionals to Support Local Tobacco Control Efforts: Historically, the greatest deterrents to local tobacco control efforts have been 1) lack of policy guidance; and 2) tobacco industry legal intimidation. This paper outlines an approach that deals with both problems.
Protect Local Control: Working to allow localities - not states or nations - to write their own ordinances about smoking in public places.
Technical Assistance Legal Center: TALC provides assistance to California cities and counties developing local laws to restrict tobacco advertising and youth access to tobacco products in their communities. Recommendations on ad restrictions that are legal; information on what the state settlement does not accomplish in this and other areas.
The Case for Banning Advertising and Promotion of Tobacco: Short factsheet lists the different kinds of promotion the tobacco industry does, and the returns it gets on each kind.
Tobacco Aflatoxin Alert: Advocates the same regulation of fungal carcinogen in tobacco as is done for other crops.
Toxic-Tobacco Law: Describes the proposed Toxic-Tobacco Law, how it differs from Prohibition, what it will accomplish, and how supporters can help get the Law passed.