Addressing Tobacco Dependency in Women’s Substance Use Treatment Chapter 25 in N. Poole & L. Greaves, eds., Highs & Lows: Canadian Perspectives on Women and Substance Use (2007).
Turning a New Leaf: Women, Tobacco, and the Future provides a much-needed picture of women's tobacco use in different social contexts, identifies the health effects of tobacco, and describes women's role in tobacco production and marketing. It also provides direction on assessing and addressing the gendered issues of tobacco control in policy, programming, and research in order to reduce the devastating effects of tobacco on women. Also available in French and Spanish.
Sifting the Evidence: Gender and global tobacco control and
Gender and Tobacco : A policy brief
The World Health Organization with the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, 2007
Reducing Harm: A Better Practices Review of Tobacco Policy and Vulnerable Populations reviews evidence of the effectiveness of three aspects of tobacco control policy (sales restrictions, taxation and pricing, location restrictions) on diverse groups of males and females particularly vulnerable to smoking: Aboriginal people, adolescents, and individuals from low socioeconomic backgrounds.
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