Our Health vs. Their Profits: the Lure of Smoking Continues for Girls
– Essay from editors of Our Bodies, Ourselves reflects on the progress not made when it comes to women, girls, and smoking.
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Women's health refers to health issues specific to human female anatomy. These often relate to structures such as female genitalia and breasts or to conditions caused by hormones specific to, or most notable in, females. Women's health issues include menstruation, contraception, maternal health, child birth, menopause and breast cancer. They can also include medical situations in which women face problems not directly related to their biology, for example gender-differentiated access to medical treatment.
Women's health is an issue which has been taken up by many feminists, especially where reproductive health is concerned. Women's health is positioned within a wider body of knowledge cited by, amongst others, the World Health Organisation, which places importance on gender as a social determinent of health.
Some health and medical research advocates, particularly the Society for Women's Health Research in the United States, define women's health more broadly than issues specific to human female anatomy to include areas where biological sex differences between women and men exist. Research has demonstrated significant biological differences between the sexes in rates of susceptibility, symptoms and response to treatment in many major areas of health, including heart disease and some cancers. The social view of health combined with the acknowledgement that gender is a social determinant of health inform women's health service delivery in countries around the world. Women's health services such as Leichhardt Women's Community Health Centre which was established in 1974 and was the first women's health centre established in Australia is an example of women's health approach to service delivery[1].
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Philip Morris: National Expert on Women
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Philip Morris: National Expert on Women
– Once-secret memo, the Virginia Slims Opinion Poll Public Relations Plan, documents a PR campaign that Philip Morris ran to position itself as the "most authoritative chronicler of women’s issues".
Direct link: Philip Morris: National Expert on WomenPregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination
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Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combination
– Information on how much harm tobacco products cause during and after pregnancy.
Direct link: Pregnancy and smoking: a lethal combinationReview – The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
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Review – The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.
– Book review.
Direct link: Review – The Female Smoker: From Addiction to Recovery.Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand
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Rite Aid Is Taking A Stand
– Photo essay takes a hard look at Rite Aid’s claim that it’s taking a stand against heart disease in women.
Direct link: Rite Aid Is Taking A StandSecondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
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Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung Function
– Secondhand smoke causes decreased lung function in women, especially women with asthma, according to a recent study.
Direct link: Secondhand Smoke Causes Women Decreased Lung FunctionSmoking Is Ugly
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Smoking Is Ugly
– Created Christy Turlington to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer. "More women died of lung cancer in 2002 than of breast, uterine, and ovarian cancer combined" Facts and quitting info.
Direct link: Smoking Is UglySmoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic
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Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global Epidemic
– World Health Organization fact sheet.
Direct link: Smoking and Women: The Next Wave of the Global EpidemicSmoking-Related Deaths
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Smoking-Related Deaths On The Rise Among American, French Women
– Smoking-related illnesses and deaths among American and French women have risen sharply in recent years, despite vigorous anti-smoking campaigns on a global scale, says a Penn State researcher.
Direct link: Smoking-Related DeathsSmoking: A Guide for Teens
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Smoking: A Guide for Teens
– Center for Young Women’s Health in Boston provides short factsheet aimed at teen women.
Direct link: Smoking: A Guide for TeensSmoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia
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Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West Virginia
– Matched Birth and Death Certificate data tell a grim tale, and a short discussion gives the story behind the data.
Direct link: Smoking: Effects on Mothers and Babies in West VirginiaThe Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
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The Marketing of Cigarettes to Women
– Academic article documents trends and effects of tobacco industry marketing to women.
Direct link: The Marketing of Cigarettes to WomenThe Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and Fertility
– Factsheets on tobacco and congenital anomalies, fertility and menopause, general effects, miscarriage, and low birth weight.
Direct link: The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pregnancy and FertilityThe Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and Smoking
– Current and historical trends documented from a book on tobacco.
Direct link: The Tobacco Reference Guide: Women and SmokingTobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
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Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims Advertising
– You’ve come a long way baby. A collection of Virginia Slims ads shows how cigarettes were pushed in the 70′s.
Direct link: Tobacco Advertising and Women: Virginia Slims AdvertisingTobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO
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Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHO
– Tobacco companies are exploiting women’s struggle for equal rights by creating the impression that tobacco makes women more confident, more sexually attractive, and more in control of their own destiny, says a World Health Organization report.
Direct link: Tobacco Companies Exploit Women, says WHOTobacco and Women’s Health
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Tobacco and Women’s Health
– Book review of book of same title.
Direct link: Tobacco and Women’s HealthTobacco as a Problem for Women
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Tobacco as a Problem for Women
– Collection of articles on tobacco impacts on women.
Direct link: Tobacco as a Problem for WomenU.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since ’20s
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U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since ’20s
– ABC News article provides a quick summary of the long history.
Direct link: U.S. Tobacco Makers Targetted Women Since ’20sVirginia SLAM!
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Virginia SLAM!
– Brief biography of Leslie Nuchow who began a counter movement against the Virginia Slims record label, Woman Thing Music.
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