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Smoke Free Movies
www.smokefreemovies.ucsf.edu/index.html

Smoke Free Movies aims to sharply reduce the U.S. film industry’s usefulness to Big Tobacco’s domestic and global marketing — a leading cause of disability and premature death.

LGBTQI

Tobacco-Free Lavender Communities of Minnesota
www.rainbowhealth.org/-TLC/

TLC of Minnesota is a grass-roots organization of citizens and agencies concerned about tobacco use in LGBT communities and ways to reduce the harm that tobacco causes our community. Participation is voluntary and free of charge. Mission: To reduce, through outreach, education and advocacy, the harm that tobacco causes the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community in Minnesota.

National LGBT Tobacco Control Network
www.lgbttobacco.org/

California Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Tobacco Education Partnership (LGBT Partnership)
www.lgbtpartnership.org/index.html

Involved in advocating for tobacco industry donation and sponsorship policies and reducing availability of tobacco.

AFRICAN AMERICAN/ AFRICAN

The National African American Tobacco Education Network (NAATEN)
http://healthedcouncil.org/naaten/index.html

Collaborative of national, state and community based organizations serving the African American/Black community. NAATEN’s goal is to eliminate tobacco use in the African American Community by serving as a leader and unified voice on a national level engaging African American organizations in preventing and reducing tobacco use.

The National African American Tobacco Prevention Network
www.naatpn.org/

National organization dedicated to facilitating the development and implementation of comprehensive and community competent tobacco control programs to benefit communities and people of African descent.

FIRST NATION/ NATIVE AMERICAN

Seven Tribal Support Centers
www.tobaccoprevention.net/TSC_text.htm

CDC supported programs to prevent and control tobacco use.

The National Tribal Tobacco Prevention Network
www.npaihb.org/

The National Tribal Tobacco Prevention Network is an expanding alliance of tobacco prevention and education advocates committed to improving the wellness of American Indian and Alaska Native people by working to reduce commercial tobacco use.

The Northern Plains Tobacco Prevention Project (NPTPP)
www.aatchb.org/nptpp/index.html

Mission is to lead regional efforts to reduce addictive tobacco use and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke among American Indians residing in the Northern Plains. Initiative of the Aberdeen Area Tribal Chairmen’s Health Board (AATCHB) to address commercial tobacco use among American Indians residing in the Aberdeen Area (North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Iowa).

The Native American Tobacco Coalition of Montana

www.keeptobaccosacred.org/articles


Urban Indian Tobacco Prevention

www.myspace.com/uaitpen

The Urban American Indian Tobacco Prevention and Education Network provides culturally relevant tobacco education and prevention services to urban American Indians and Alaskan Natives in the state of Oregon. Funded by the tobacco program of the state of Oregon, which has four goal areas in tobacco work: to reduce exposure to secondhand smoke, to counter pro-tobacco influence, to help people quit and to eliminate health disparities.

HISPANIC

The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCAT)
www.nlcatp.org/

Non-profit 501(c)(3) national organization established in 1989 in order to combat alcohol and tobacco problems and their underlying causes in Latino communities. As The only Latino national organization dedicated solely to reducing the harm caused by alcohol and tobacco in the Latino community, our work is conducted through research, advocacy, policy analysis, community education, training and information dissemination.

ASIAN AMERICANS & PACIFIC ISLANDERS

The Center for Social Gerontology
African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders
www.tcsg.org/tobacco/minorities/minorities.htm

Information on this site pertains to tobacco use by and its effects on old and young adults from communities of color in the United States. Communities of color have been specifically targeted by the tobacco industry, with the resultant suffering and death from tobacco-related diseases, information included on legal remedies now being pursued to redress these wrongful acts by the tobacco industry -- specifically lawsuits and legislative action related to the recent state tobacco settlements.

YOUTH

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.org/index.php

The Real Scoop on Tobacco
www.fusd1.org/demiguel/real.htm

Burning Brain Society
www.burningbrain.org/tobacco.htm

We are concerned about the coming generation and their welfare. We have identified Tobacco and substance abuse as one such aberration which can be tackled easily if proper information and guidance is provided at the right time. The age of 10 to 25 definitely falls in that vulnerable age group. Reaching young people at the right time and sensitizing them is one of our concerns.

TheTruth
www.thetruth.com

Exposing how the tobacco industry has been manipulating the youth generation and others before it. The website provides a dependable source of real facts and information. Stripping it down to the point where only the raw truth is left.

Kick Butts Day 2009
http://kickbuttsday.org/index.html

Kick Butts Day is Wednesday, March 25. National day of advocacy to empower youth in your area to stand out, speak up and seize control against Big Tobacco with fun, educational activities and events.

Drop the butts
www.dropthebutts.org

Website to help you do exactly that, drop the butts, you know, quit smoking. Too many teens that smoke would like to quit but they don’t because it is "too hard". Well that is where this site comes in to play; the tips on this site can help you and your friends quit smoking for good and begin a healthier lifestyle.

The American Legacy Foundation®
www.americanlegacy.org/default.aspx

The American Legacy Foundation® is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. The Foundation develops programs that address the health effects of tobacco use. We want to help all young people reject tobacco, and give everyone access to tobacco prevention and cessation services.

The Foundation for a Smokefree America
www.anti-smoking.org

Smokefree America’s mission is to motivate youth to stay tobaccofree, and to empower smokers to quit.

The Tobacco Action Coalition of Long Island (TAC)
www.breathefreely.org/

Our mission is to increase the acceptance of non-smoking as the social norm. Our goals are prevention, cessation and protection: the prevention of youth initiation; the cessation of tobacco use; and the protection of non-smokers. We strive to meet these goals by working through media advocacy, policy initiatives and existing tobacco education and control programs.

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