Tobacco
Clearinghouse Connector – October 2008
This edition of the Clearinghouse Connector profiles information resources that explore the issue of tobacco.
Tobacco smoking is the single largest cause of preventable death and disease in Australia. There are approximately 6,000 Australian women who die prematurely each year from tobacco caused illness.
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Overview
The Australian longitudinal study on women’s health: young women: tobacco alcohol and other drugs
2007 National drug strategy household survey
Turning a new leaf: women, tobacco and the future
Tobacco policy
National cancer prevention policy 2007-09
Women and tobacco: an international epidemic
Filtered policy: women and tobacco in Canada
Gender differences
Gender in lung cancer and smoking research
New study shows women more vulnerable to risk of colorectal cancer from tobacco
Environmental exposure to tobacco
Passive smoking and breast cancer: is the evidence for cause now convincing?
Environmental tobacco smoke and mortality in Chinese women who have never smoked
Quitting smoking
ABC of smoking cessation: special groups of smokers
Marketing cigarettes to young women
Big tobacco baits young women with fruit flavours
Call for ban on fruit-flavoured cigarettes
Impacts of smoking
Cancer incidence projections for Australia 2002-2011
Smoking and alcohol abuse may increase risk of intimate partner violence
Smoking is causing impotence, miscarriages and infertility
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Content Reviewed: 6 October 2008
Last Updated: 1 March 2009