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Smoking
The following guide provides Web site links, a list of selected
books, and access to online periodical articles about this subject.
The Web site links have been researched, evaluated, and annotated by
Rio Hondo College Librarians. The Librarians have specifically
selected these Web sites to meet the research needs of Rio Hondo
College students
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Web
Site Links
Online Databases (RHC Students
only)
Books
Library Catalog
Media
Articles
Text-only
version for printing
Web Site Links
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Action on
Smoking and Health (ASH)
http://www.ash.org/
Everything for people concerned about smoking and nonsmokers' rights,
smoking statistics, quitting smoking, smoking risks, and other smoking
information.
Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
"Smoking & Tobacco Use" Website.
Smoking
Cessation
http://quitsmoking.about.com/mbody.htm?once=true&
This site is authored and maintained by an ex-smoker. The site is
current and has many links and statistics.
Tobacco Free
Initiative (TFI)
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
Maintained by a specialized agency of the United Nations, World Health
Organization (WHO), provides current data on health conditions and needs,
particularly in developing countries.
Tobacco.org
http://www.tobacco.org/
A site maintained by the Argus Clearinghouse which gives many links including:
“Resources Page,” “Health Page,” “Documents Page,” “Culture
Page,” “Activism Page,” etc.
UCSF
Tobacco Industry Videos
http://www.archive.org/details/tobaccoarchives
Collection contains audiotapes and videotapes related to the advertising,
manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research of tobacco products as
well as material gathered and produced by tobacco control advocates.
Online
Databases (Rio Hondo Students only) top
MedlinePlus
A goldmine of authoritative and up-to-date health information from the
world's largest medical library, The National Library of Medicine.
PubMed
A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes more than
17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical
articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles
and other related resources.
Books
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The following books can be located in the
Rio Hondo College Library.
Reference Books
Non-circulating:
The debatabase book : a must-have guide for successful
debate
Call number: Ref ZA3050.D3945 2007x
Suggested Subject Headings
For additional titles on this topic at Rio Hondo, click on the
following Library of Congress subject headings:
Smoking
Tobacco industry
Tobacco use
Library
Catalog
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Use the box below to search for additional resources in Rio Hondo
College Library.
Media
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The following media can be located in the Rio Hondo College Library,
to be viewed in the Library.
Deadly persuasion : the advertising of alcohol and tobacco
Call number: DVD 0047
Jean Kilbourne exposes the manipulative marketing strategies and
tactics used by the alcohol and tobacco industries to keep Americans
hooked on their dangerous products.
Hooked : the addiction trap
Call number: Video 000503
This 3 part series shows the path of addiction and discusses how to recognize when there is a potential problem. Interviews with young people and adults who are coping with addictions to drugs, alcohol, gambling, smoking, internet pornography, television and eating disorders are intercut with scientific information on addiction and the brain.
Articles
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The Rio Hondo College Library
provides online access to full-text articles through our
online databases. Please note: you must be a Rio Hondo College
student, faculty, staff or board member to use these services.
The sample searches
and articles below are from the
ProQuest database. If you are viewing this
subject guide from an on-campus computer, simply click on the
links below. To gain access if you are at home or off-campus,
first click here:
https://rioweb.riohondo.edu/library/. Input your student
ID number and password [your birthdate]. You will see a
list of all the online databases to which you have access. Click on ProQuest and enter the database. You may conduct your own
searches at this point or come back to this subject guide and
click on any of the links below:
SUB(smoking) AND SUB(lung cancer)
(smoking) AND (respiratory diseases)
SUB(smoking) AND SUB(heart disease)
SUB(tobacco industry) AND (court decisions)
SUB(tobacco industry) AND SUB(advertising)
SUB(smoking) AND SUB(teenagers)
Researched and evaluated by:
D. Yashar, Librarian 12/1997
last update: T. Shacklett, Librarian 11/2009
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