Resources By Audience

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• General Public
• Health Professionals
• Media
• Parents and Families
• Policy Makers and Researchers
• Quitters
• Teachers
• Youth and Young Adults
• Aboriginal peoples off-reserves

General Public

• It Will Never Happen to Me
• Help Your Child Stay Smoke-free
• Make your home and car smoke-free: A guide to protecting your family from second-hand smoke
• A way out: Women with disabilities and smoking (1997)

Health Professionals

• Expecting to Quit: A Best Practices Review of Smoking Cessation Interventions for Pregnant and Postpartum Girls and Women
•  New Online Course for Health Professionals: Tobacco and Public Health: From Theory to Practice - The Ontario Tobacco Research Unit
• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative
• Quit Smoking Telephone Counselling Protocol for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
• Physicians and clinical tobacco intervention: A guide for evaluation and planning - Some physicians believe they can have little or no effect on their patients' smoking. However, evidence-based research shows that clinical tobacco intervention by physicians does work. (1996)
• Francophones and Tobacco Use in Canada: Lessons Learned from the Tobacco Demand Reduction Strategy 1994-1997 (1999)
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls
• Getting smoke-free: An Information kit for community organizations working with women

Media

• List of Factsheets
• Mass Media Campaigns
• The Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Legislation on the Hospitality Industry:
•  The Economic Impact of a Smoke-free Bylaw on Restaurant and Bar Sales in Ottawa, Canada (PDF Version - 155 K)
• Health Canada News Releases

Parents and Families

• Help Your Child Stay Smoke-free
• Make your home and car smoke-free: A guide to protecting your family from second-hand smoke
• Tips for families and friends to help someone quit
•  Quit 4 Life - Handbook and Web site designed for youth wanting to quit.

Policy Makers and Researchers

• The Tobacco Act
• Framework Convention on Tobacco Control goes into force
• The Economic Impact of Smoke-Free Legislation on the Hospitality Industry:
•  The Economic Impact of a Smoke-free Bylaw on Restaurant and Bar Sales in Ottawa, Canada
• Tobacco Control Strategy Reports
• Tobacco Regulations
• Tobacco Research published by Health Canada
• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative

Quitters

• On the Road to Quitting Booklet
•  Quit 4 Life - This 4-step program is designed to help Canadians aged 12 to 18 quit smoking.
• 1-800 Quit Lines
  

Teachers

• Investigating a School-Based Approach to Tobacco Control: The Hampton High School Initiative
• It Will Never Happen to Me
• School-based smoking prevention: Economic costs versus benefits
• Smoke Free Spaces Activist Tool Kit (For Youth)
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls
• Improving the odds: Educator's resource

Youth and Young Adults

• Evaluation of the Quit4Life Youth Cessation Demonstration Project
• It Will Never Happen to Me
• Quit4Life - 12 Month Follow-up Evaluation
• National Forum on Youth and Young Adult Tobacco Control Issues - 2005
  • Forum Story
  • Evaluation Report
• Youth and Tobacco: Lessons Learned from the Tobacco Demand Reduction Strategy (1999)
• Cigarette Smoking and Young Women's Presentation of Self
• Quit 4 Life - Handbook and Web site designed for youth wanting to quit
• Looking for homework Help?
• Smoke Free Spaces Activist Tool Kit (For Youth)[
• Stop smoking before it starts: An information kit for community organizations working with adolescent girls

Aboriginal peoples off-reserves

• Tobacco
• Aboriginal Campaigns