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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.

Tobacco and smoking fact sheets, statistics, news, projects, policies, and resources.

Official policy, links to key documents, and details of related health initiatives.

Collection of Guardian articles on smoking, tobacco, secondhand smoke, politics, public policy.

Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.

No Smoking Day comes once a year. The web site is available all year round to provide support for quitters and for professionals.

Practical advice on giving up. Telephone helpline available.

A stop smoking programme available to employers and to health clubs.

A guide to smoke free places in Birmingham, as well as information on how to quit.

An alliance of organisations working together to encourage a reduction in the prevalence of smoking through education and advice. Also includes the Totally Smoke Free Norfolk Eating Guide.

An alliance of agencies working together to improve the health of all Londoners by eliminating or reducing their exposure to tobacco.

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.

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.