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smoke. This may be achieved in part by<br />
health protection legislation which limits<br />
smoking indoors and the requirement to<br />
provide a safe workplace. In common<br />
with some other areas of tobacco control,<br />
it is possible that progress in this<br />
area may be influenced by the outcome<br />
of litigation and the associated financial<br />
risk incurred by those permitting or tolerating<br />
such exposure.<br />
Outcome<br />
The health benefits of smoking cessation<br />
are indisputable, and specifically<br />
include reduced risk of malignant disease.<br />
A classic example involves the<br />
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further investigation. Hence, the immediate<br />
issue confronting governmental<br />
and other authorities is the amount and<br />
type of resources that should be allocated<br />
to this established means of <strong>cancer</strong><br />
prevention. An important consideration<br />
is the limitation of those factors which<br />
tend to promote adoption of the smoking<br />
habit by the community in question.<br />
WEBSITES<br />
GLOBALink, the International Tobacco Control Network,<br />
UICC:<br />
http://www.globalink.org<br />
Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse:<br />
http://www.ftcc.fsu.edu<br />
CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source:<br />
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/<br />
List of smoking and tobacco control monographs from the<br />
National Cancer Institute:<br />
http://rex.nci.nih.gov/NCI_MONOGRAPHS/LIST.HTM<br />
Tobacco Control Research Branch (NCI), information on<br />
spit tobacco:<br />
http://dccps.nci.nih.gov/TCRB/less_default.html<br />
Tobacco Free Initiative, WHO:<br />
http://tobacco.who.int/<br />
11th World Conference on Tobacco or Health (August<br />
2000):<br />
http://www.wctoh.org/<br />
Smoking Cessation, “Live Smoke Free”, Health Canada:<br />
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/cessation/<br />
Framework Convention on Tobacco Control :<br />
http://www.who.int/gb/fctc/<br />
Quit: the National Tobacco Initiative (Australia):<br />
http://www.quitnow.info.au