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Internet Resources for Family Doctors: Online Educational Resources
The following links to informative tobacco websites have been provided by the Wonca Special Interest Group on Health Behaviour Change
Sir Richard Peto shares data about the impact of tobacco on populations and predicts future global trends.
Power point slides are downloadable about these trends. Data is available on individual countries.
http://www.deathsfromsmoking.net/
Look up the physician rate of smoking in your country? http://wwwcancer.org/downloads/AA/TobaccoAtlas04.pdf Three minutes to download on a 56K modem
The Tobacco Atlas 2nd edition, Dr Judith Mackay, Dr Michael Eriksen and Dr Omar Shafey
Published by the American Cancer Society, 2006
Languages: English, simplified Chinese, French and Spanish
a) Free downloadable pdfs http://www.cancer.org/international (Scroll to Cancer and Tobacco Atlases)
or directly: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_2_5_9x_Tobacco_Atlas.asp
b) Interactive online version, Global Tobacco Research Network, Johns Hopkins site http://www.tobaccoresearch.net/atlas.htm
c) Myriad Editions site http://www.myriadeditions.com/?section=books&category=new&id=tobacco
The Cancer Atlas, Dr Judith Mackay, Dr Ahmedin Jemal, Dr Nancy C Lee, Dr D Maxwell Parkin
Published by the American Cancer Society, 2006
Languages: English, simplified Chinese, French and Spanish
a) Free downloadable pdfs http://www.cancer.org/international (Scroll to Cancer and Tobacco Atlases)
or directly: http://www.cancer.org/docroot/AA/content/AA_2_5_9x_Cancer_Atlas.asp?
b) Myriad Editions site http://www.myriadeditions.com/?section=books&category=new&id=cancer
Purchasing procedures
a) For those requesting discounted or free copies, e.g. for distribution in developing countries, contact: international@cancer.org
b) Individual copies can be obtained at: http://www.cancer.org/bookstore. The cost is $29.95.
c) For bulk sales (over 25 copies), contact trade.sales@cancer.org. In those quantities, the cost will be $17.97.
Code of Practice on Tobacco Control for Health Professional Organizations
This one-page summary outlines a code of practice on tobacco control for health professional organizations. The Wonca Executive committee endorsed this document at the Wonca 2004 conference and encouraged member organizations to the same.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/events/30jan_2004/en/
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control This international treaty commits governments to meaningful action on tobacco control and cessation (new laws, price measures, investment in public education, tobacco cessation programs, etc). 169 countries have signed the treaty, but only 117 countries have ratified the treaty. Find out if your country has ratified the treaty at http://www.fctcnow.org/?v=signatories
http://www.fctcnow.org
WHO Tobacco Free Initiative http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ describes the latest development of the Tobacco Free Initiative and updates on the FCTC treaty. This page http://www.who.int/tobacco/framework/download/en/index.html
http://www.paho.org Pan American Health Organization
http://www.afro.who.int/tfi/index.html Africa
http://www.emro.who.int/tfi/tfi.htm Eastern Mediterranean
http://www.euro.who.int/tobaccofree Europe
http://w3.whosea.org/ South-East Asia
http://www.wpro.who.int/tfi/default.cfm Western Pacific Region
GlobaLink contains the most comprehensive range of online communities (in different languages) on tobacco control and cessation. http://www.globalink.org/
Treatobacco.net (in 11 languages), run by the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco, features a regular question (Ask the Experts) and an evidence-based answer, which provides important information to family doctors.
http://www.treatobacco.net/home/home.cfm
Office of the Surgeon General - Tobacco Cessation Guideline provides the latest information for helping people quit smoking and for helping health care professionals treat tobacco use and dependence.
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco
Cochane Tobacco Addiction Reviews provides a wide range of evidence-based reviews on tobacco use.
http://www.update-software.com/Abstracts/TOBACCOAbstractIndex.htm
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provides a wide-ranging wealth of resources on tobacco cessation and control
http://www.cdc.gov/health/tobacco.htm
Society of Research on Nicotine and Tobacco is one of the leading research organization that focuses on a wide range of tobacco-related topic.
http://www.srnt.org
Canadian Council of Tobacco Control provides access to the most relevant information on tobacco control by subject and audience, as well as additions to the Tobacco Control Reference Catalogue that have been building for over 10 months.
http://www.cctc.ca/
National Cancer Institute - Tobacco Control Research Branch (US) provides resources about tobacco control
http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/tcrb
Action on Smoking and Health— are n ational charitable antismoking and nonsmokers' rights organizations.
http://www.ash.org ( USA)
http://www.ash.org.uk ( UK)
http://www.ashaust.org.au ( Australia)
http://www.ash.org.nz (NewZealand)
Tobacco Free Kids— You need to register for this site to explore resources about preventing tobacco use in youth
https://secure.tobaccofreekids.org/
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