Web Links

Background Information & Current Events

CDC/Office on Smoking and Health, Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
This site provides extensive coverage of tobacco education and prevention issues including 1) quick tobacco information and links; 2) a catalog of CDC/OSH publications; 3) Surgeon General's Reports; 4) Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports; 5) Quit guides; 6) material for parents, educators, professional and youth leaders; 7) new citations of recently published literature related to smoking; 8) national, state, and local tobacco control data, full-text publications and reports, and the State Tobacco Activities Tracking & Evaluation System searchable database; 9) Celebrities Against Smoking campaigns 10) national campaigns and events links; 11) searchable CDC Smoking and Health database; 12) access to tobacco industry documents; 13) TIPS for Youth; and 14) media campaign resources. The site also maintains press releases and links to other sites.

California Tobacco Control Program
Site includes 1) press releases; 2) searchable CTCP Project Directory; 3) local program information and publications; 4) statewide Tobacco Education Media Campaign; 5) the California Smokers' Helpline; 6) evaluation resources, references, and full-text evaluation publications and reports; 7) other full-text publications and fact sheets. NOTE: To find information on California laws and the status of Assembly and Senate Bills, use the Official California Legislative Information (http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/).

Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
This site includes 1) Federal Initiatives section with detailed information, reports, and fact sheets about critical federal tobacco control issues; 2) State Initiatives; 3) Global Initiatives including information on WHO, news, fact sheets, country case studies and reports, international events calendar, and links to websites from around the world; 4) Youth Action; 5) searchable Tobacco News section; 6) general fact sheets, research, special reports, and comprehensive web links; 7) press releases and statements for reporters and other journalists; 8) Tobacco Ad Gallery; 9) Special Reports including background material, charts, web links, fact sheets, press releases, e-movies, and court records.

Tobacco BBS (Tobacco.org)
A customized email news service and comprehensive website on tobacco and smoking research, resources, news and current events. The daily news summaries service includes information on health/cessation, secondhand smoke, teen smoking, federal issues, settlements and lawsuits, tobacco industry documents, local/state and international news, agriculture, business, tobacco control, smuggling/crime, society, fires, opinion/editorials, and all stories from a specific state. The service can be easily customized for your areas of interest. Also features daily quotes, VCR Alerts, web links, a tobacco timeline, activism guide, and a searchable database of the current and archived news summaries.

Tobacco Free Initiative (World Health Organization)
This website provides updates on both the Tobacco Free Initiative and FCTC activities as well as information on World No Tobacco Day, excerpts from speeches, press releases, and numerous full-text WHO, UN, and other international agency publications and reports.

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Research - Databases & Search Engines

C-STATS (County and Statewide Archive of Tobacco Statistics)
Created by the California Department of Public Health, Tobacco Control Section (CDPH/CTCP) and the Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California (TECC), the County and Statewide Archive of Tobacco Statistics (C-STATS) website's mission is to provide access to a wide variety of tobacco control-related information and statistics, including evaluation resources for local projects, publications, and local information on a broad range of tobacco-related indicators, from behavioral measures to local policies. The website data can be viewed by a particular data type or by either county or statewide data. The data sources are from the U.S. Census Bureau; California Tobacco Survey (CTS); California Student Tobacco Survey (CSTS); Cost of Smoking Report 1999; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) WONDER website; Women, Infant, and Children (WIC) Database; and the California Smokers' Helpline.

Gateway – National Library of Medicine
This comprehensive medical database contains information for more than 4,500 journals and over 11 million citations. Searching this site can be tricky, so make use of the numerous help screens and FAQs. Use Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terminology for the best search results. Search results can be displayed, printed, downloaded as text or HTML, and/or sent as email.

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
Part of CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention ("TIPS") Source website, this website was created in response to President Clinton's 1998 Executive Memorandum which provides for greater public access to tobacco industry documents released through litigation. This site provides site glossary, which explains special terms used in the site and in tobacco industry databases; comprehensive descriptions and links to tobacco company and independent websites containing tobacco industry documents; searchable access to the 4B citation index, which provides objective indexing information about the documents provided by tobacco companies during the litigation that are now housed at the Minnesota Tobacco Document Depository; access to a special set of documents used in the Minnesota trial; and access to the Guilford/British American Tobacco Documents.

Smoking and Health Database
Containing over 62,000 records, the CDC's searchable Smoking and Health Database includes scientific, medical, technical, policy, behavioral, legal, and historical literature related to smoking and tobacco use and its effect on health. It presents lengthy abstracts of journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, reports, conference proceedings and conference papers, government documents, policy or legal documents, editorials, letters, and comments on articles. A simple search can be done using title, author, keyword, journal name, subject heading, or publication year.

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Tobacco Control Related Journals

The TECC Resource Library subscribes to many tobacco control, public health, and even tobacco industry journals. The journal websites listed below allow you to search for journal articles. Most websites provide abstracts for each journal article and some provide the full-text article. Although TECC does not loan out entire journal issues to projects, we can send, email, or fax CTCP-funded projects journal articles. Please note that, because of federal copyright restrictions, TECC only has a limited number of copies of full-text journal articles. For more information, contact the TECC Library staff at tecccirc@tecc.org.

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Material Development Resources

Microsoft Online Training
This official Microsoft training site provides easy to follow web-based training for all Microsoft programs. The training for Word and Publisher are especially helpful to anyone using these programs for design.

Online Printers
There are many online printers available. Complete a search online for the many options and browse each site for ease of use, variety of templates in design and format, as well as price breaks.

How to Create an Effective Communication Project
Contains step-by-step guidelines and exercises, including researching demographics, using focus groups (with sample questions), using mass media, and pretesting (with sample questions) - The Family Health Institute

Clear and Simple
Developing Effective Print Materials for Low Literate Readers - National Institutes of Health

Making Health Communications Work
A planner's guide for developing and evaluating health communications - National Institutes of Health

Theory at a Glance
An overview of the theories and process of changing health-related behaviors - National Institutes of Health

Reading Level Calculator
An easy to use SMOG (reading level) calculator. Simply copy your text and paste it into the calculator box for an instant calculation of reading level.

Graphic Design Links
Links to tutorials, tips, templates, graphics, and fonts from About.com

Web Style Guide
Offers basic design principles for creating websites - Yale University Center for Advanced Instructional Media

U.S. Copyright Office
General guidelines and answers to common questions about copyright issue

Photography and Illustrations

The following sites offer no-cost or low-cost royalty-free images for use in developing publications. Search by topic for photos, illustrations, and clip art. A variety of sizes, formats, and prices are available.

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Other California Partners

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR)
This site has extensive legislative and advocacy resources, including model policies and links, resource materials and information on secondhand smoke and smoke-free advocacy, youth, ANR's airports campaign, ventilation, preemption, educational programs, and the tobacco industry (internal tobacco documents, industry quotes and strategies, and several full-text reports including the 1999 report, "The National Smokers Alliance (NSA) Exposed").

California's Clean Air Project
CCAP addresses secondhand smoke issues within California by: creating and implementing educational programs and policy-advocacy initiatives; developing and distributing materials; and serving the needs and responding to requests for assistance from local programs, members of the hospitality and housing industry, policymakers, law enforcement agencies, and the general public throughout the state. This site contains information and resources to support these efforts.

California Smokers' Helpline
The Helpline provides two public websites: a general site for information about free Helpline services and materials and an interactive youth cessation site. The youth site features animated models, quizzes, and programs that show the cost of smoking; physiological effects of smoking; social consequences of smoking; tobacco industry manipulation and marketing; various cessation methods available; tips on how to quit; and a fun section with cartoons, a message board, and youth-oriented web links.

California Tobacco Control Project Directory
The online searchable California Tobacco Project Directory provides information about projects funded by CDPH/CTCP.

Technical Assistance Legal Center (TALC)
The TALC website provides full-text TALC model policies, ordinances, fact sheets, and summary papers on the following topics: advertising, divestment, licensing, zoning, litigation, secondhand smoke, Master Settlement Agreement, and the California laws booklet, "Piecing It Together." After filling out a short form, which TALC uses for tracking purposes, materials can be downloaded.

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