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This category contains 13 sites:

• ASH - Action on Smoking and Health - Pressure group and registered UK charity, lobbying for a comprehensive national programme to tackle the epidemic of tobacco-related diseases. Excellent collection of links and resources.
• Click2Quit - A highly tailored quit smoking plan combined with stop smoking aids to put you in control.
• Government Response - Government Response to the Health Select Committee's Second Report on the Tobacco Industry and the Health Risks of Smoking, published in October 2000
• Guardian Unlimited - Special report: Smoking - Collection of Guardian articles on smoking, tobacco, secondhand smoke, politics, public policy.
• No Smoking Day - No Smoking Day comes once a year. The web site is available all year round to provide support for quitters and for professionals.
• QUIT - Practical advice on giving up. Telephone helpline available.
• quitsmokinguk.com - Kara Miller's independent Web site offers advice, forums and chat rooms for people who are trying to stop smoking.
• Report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health - Results of the government commissioned review of tobacco and its effects on Health. Published in 1998.
• Smoke Free Birmingham - A guide to smoke free places in Birmingham, as well as information on how to quit.
• Smoking Kills - A White Paper on Tobacco - This official document outlines the government strategy to reduce smoking, published in 1998.
• Smoking: Don't give up giving up - Official site produced by the NHS Health Education Authority. Useful advice on how to give up and you can ask for regular supportive e-mails.
• Tobacco Control Resource Centre - Promotes tobacco control by working mainly with national medical associations in Europe. Encourages doctors to stop smoking and provides information to enable doctors to help their patients quit.
• Wired for Health - Smoking - This is the smoking section of the government sponsored educational resource, Wired for Health, and provides facts about smoking intended to help teachers.