Tobacco.Reality.Unfiltered – www.realityunfiltered.com 

North Carolina’s youth tobacco movement’s website. Provides downloads of the media campaign as well as links to other web sites.

Action on Smoking and Health - www.ash.org

Everything for people concerned about smokers' and nonsmokers' rights, smoking statistics, quitting smoking, smoking risks and other smoking information.

American Lung Association – www.lungusa.org

Founded in 1904 to fight tuberculosis, the American Lung Association® (ALA) today fights lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma, tobacco control and environmental health. The ALA offers a variety of smoking control and prevention programs targeted to specific groups - some aimed at adults, others for school use, and others designed to involve community leaders along with parents and educators. ALA has developed Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU), a peer-teaching tobacco control program aimed at deterring youngsters from taking up smoking. They also have a new state-of-the-art smoking cessation program for teens, called Not On Tobacco, or N-O-T. For people who already smoke, the American Lung Association® offers its Freedom From Smoking® program, considered the "gold standard" of group-setting, peer-support smoking cessation programs.

The American Legacy Foundation is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit. Their work to reduce tobacco use among young people includes a major national tobacco youth prevention and education effort known as the truth® campaign. Advertising, grassroots and promotional events, and an interactive Web site (www.thetruth.com) give teens the facts about tobacco use and tobacco marketing and encourages them to get involved in the effort to inform their peers.  They also work to eliminate disparities in access to tobacco prevention and cessation services.

Americans For Nonsmokers' Rights - www.no-smoke.org

Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) is the leading national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth from tobacco addiction. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.

BADvertising Institute – www.badvertising.org

The BADvertising Institute has been on the front lines of tobacco prevention with a powerful counter-advertising message. Reaching out through exhibits, posters and billboards, slide presentations, hands-on BADvertising workshops, train-the-trainer seminars and a web site, their mission is to immunize kids against tobacco, inspire smokers to quit, and equip advocates and educators with the tools for doing the same.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – www.cdc.gov

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is recognized as the lead federal agency for protecting the health and safety of people - at home and abroad, providing credible information to enhance health decisions, and promoting health through strong partnerships. The CDC serves as the national focus for developing and applying disease prevention and control, environmental health, and health promotion and education activities designed to improve the health of the people of the United States . You can search numerous health topics, including tobacco use. Information is available on the surgeon general’s report, quitting tips, the dangers of secondhand smoke, etc,. through the use of articles, fact sheets and charts.

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids – www.tobaccofreekids.org

The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is fighting to free America 's youth from tobacco and to create a healthier environment. The Campaign is one of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives ever launched to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to secondhand smoke. Their primary goals are to alter the public's acceptance of tobacco by deglamorizing tobacco use, and countering tobacco industry marketing to youth. Great web site for getting state specific information. Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids also has another web site that is the youth action center (www.standoutspeakup.org). It is a resource for youth advocates across the country who are interested in becoming more involved in taking action, changing policy, etc.                

Children Helping and Motivating Parents to Stop Smoking (CHAMPSS) - www.champps.org

CHAMPSS is a national campaign designed to encourage and empower kids to help their parents quit smoking by using positive and encouraging methods. 

EnTER Program – www.fammed.unc.edu/enter

The EnTER Program is the Environmental Tobacco Smoke Training, Education and Research Program at the University of North Carolina's Department of Family Medicine. It is EnTER's mission to help local and statewide communities advocate for healthier, smoke-free policies in their workplaces, schools and community businesses. EnTER can offer a library of resources, from one-on-one consultations to group trainings, from fact sheets to do-it-yourself presentations.    

Get Outraged – www.getoutraged.com

This web site is sponsored by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and gives updated tobacco facts, news and stories. You can also download ads.

Girl Power – www.girlpower.gov

Girl Power is the national public education campaign sponsored by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to help encourage and motivate girls between the ages of 9 and 13 to make the most of their lives. Girls at 8 or 9 typically have very strong attitudes about their health, so Girl Power seeks to reinforce and sustain these positive values by targeting health messages to the unique needs, interests, and challenges of these young girls.

Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission – www.hwtfc.org

The Health and Wellness Trust Fund Commission was created by the General Assembly as one of three entities to invest North Carolina's portion of the tobacco Master Settlement Agreement.

Corporate Accountability International (formerly InFact) – www.stopcorporateabuse.org

Corporate Accountability International is a national grassroots corporate watchdog organization and resource on boycotting tobacco industry products.

Joe Chemo – www.joechemo.org

Meet Joe Chemo, a camel who wishes he'd never smoked cigarettes. Joe is having trouble feeling COOL these days, now that he's lost most of his hair. Worst of all, Joe just realized that he's been manipulated all his life by tobacco companies.

National Cancer Institute – www.nci.nih.gov

Information on tobacco, spit tobacco, clinical trials regarding tobacco and literature, as well as cessation information. Information is also available in Spanish.

National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention - www.nlcatp.org

The National Latino Council on Alcohol and Tobacco Prevention (LCATP) was established in 1989. It is the only national organization dedicated exclusively to preventing or eliminating tobacco use and reducing alcohol abuse in the Latino community. LCATP is particularly concerned about the effects of tobacco use and alcohol use on the Latino family. 

No-Tobacco Youth Web Site - www.notobacco.org

This web site is designed to motivate youth to remain tobacco free and empower youth to quit. It provides links to a variety of other youth tobacco free web sites. You can order materials from this web site.

NC Healthy Schools – www.healthyschools.org

NC Healthy Schools focuses on improving the health of students and staff by providing coordination and resources in eight component areas of school health. Provides NC-specific information and numerous links that focus on a variety of issues that affect youth. 

North Carolina Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch – www.communityhealth.dhhs.state.nc.us/tobacco.htm

The North Carolina Tobacco Prevention and Control Branch reduces deaths and health problems due to tobacco use and secondhand smoke. Branch programs build capacity of diverse organizations and communities to carry out effective, culturally appropriate strategies to prevent youth tobacco use and access, promote and support quitting among tobacco users, reduce disparities by improving health related norms of special populations more adversely affected by tobacco use, and promote smoke-free environments.

Office on Women’s Health - www.4woman.gov/quitsmoking

The Office on Women’s Health at the Department of Health and Human Services is the federal government’s focal point for women’s health issues, including tobacco use. This site’s “A Breathe of Fresh Air” page includes separate sections for teens and parents as well as links on the Surgeon General’s report on women and smoking.

North Carolina’s Quitnet – www.quitnownc.org

Quit Now NC! is a resource for people who want to quit smoking, for their families and friends who want to help, and for health professionals with patients who use tobacco. It provides on-line resources and counseling.

QuitNet – www.quitnet.com
Launched in 1995, QuitNet is the Web's original quit smoking site. QuitNet operates in association with Boston University School of Public Health. This website will help you create your own plan for quitting, let you talk to an online counselor, get support from fellow quitters, and has help available in Spanish.

Quit Smokeless Tobacco – www.quitsmokeless.org

Offers quitting services to people who use smokeless tobacco. It provides a network of support and plenty of reasons why you should quit.

Smokeless Tobacco – www.nstep.org

Oral Health America 's National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) was founded in 1994 as an effort to educate the baseball family and the American public about the dangers of smokeless or spit tobacco, and break the long-standing link between this potentially deadly drug and America 's pastime. NSTEP's mission is to prevent people, especially young people, from starting to use spit tobacco and to help all users quit.

Step Up NC – www.stepupnc.com

This is a place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. They can learn more about the perils of smoking, find out how to quit or become an activist, or just to see what other teens around North Carolina are doing about tobacco prevention and control.

Tar Wars – www.tarwars.org

Tar Wars is an innovative and fun program that teaches youth about the short-term, image-based consequences of tobacco use and how to think critically about tobacco advertising. This web site encourages health educators and medical professionals to engage youth.

Tobacco Information – www.tobacco.org

Provides information on the latest tobacco-related research and studies. It provides links and resources for the professional interested in staying current.

Truth – www.thetruth.com

The Truth is the national teen tobacco campaign funded by American Legacy Foundation. This website is directed at youth.

Working Smokefree – www.workingsmokefree.com

Dedicated to helping North Carolina businesses achieve smoke-free workplaces. Provides information needed to aid in making and implementing the decision to adopt a smoke-free workplace policy. You'll find information on the site about the health and financial reasons to become a smoke-free workplace, resources you'll need to develop and implement a smoke-free policy, and success stories from North Carolina businesses that have already made a successful switch to a smoke-free workplace.