Resource Materials on Tobacco

VIDEOS

(The) Best for Baby and You
1990
Distributor: Cable Regina
Target audiences: Native people, teenagers, pregnant women

Butt it Out (15 min)
1984
Distributor: Addiction Research Foundation
Target audience: Children (elementary level)

Diary of a Teenage Smoker (26 min)
1991
Distributor: Health and Welfare Canada
Target audiences: Youth, females, general public

(The) Feminine Mistake: The Next Generation
1989
Distributor: Omega Film Ltd.
Target audience: Children, youth, general public

Holding Our Own: Strategies during pregnancy and motherhood to stop smoking
1998
Distributor: Kem Murch Productions
Target audiences: Pregnant women

Inside and Out: The Impacts of Second-Hand Smoke on Pregnant Women and their Unborn Child.
2002
Distributor: NECHI
Target Audience: CHRs, women, smokers

Messages on Tobacco and Your Health
1999
Distributor: NIICHRO
Target audience: community health programs

NASAWIN (30 min)
1992
Distributor: Union of Ontario Indians
Target audiences: Native people, general public

Smart Women Don’t Smoke (12 min)
1990
Distributor: American Public Health Association
Target audiences: Youth, women, general public

Smoke Rings (24 min)
1990
Distributor: American Public Health Association
Target Audiences: Youth, women, general public

Smokeless Tobacco: It can snuff you out (16 min)
1982
Distributor: Omega Films Ltd.
Target audiences: Youth, children, males, general public

Talking Circles – Smoking Cessation (12 min)
1995
Distributor: Center for American Indian Research Education
Target audiences: Native smokers, general public

MANUALS / KITS

Aniqsaattiarniq – Breathing Easy – Community Resource Kit
Pauktuutit Inuit Women’s Association of Canada, 1997
Language: English, Inuktitut
Contact: Tel: (613) 238-3977 Fax: (613) 238-1787

Catching Our Breath – A Journal about Change for Women who Smoke
Women’s Health Clinic, Winnipeg, Manitoba, 1997
Language: English
Contact: (204) 947-1517 Fax: (204) 943-3844

Devenir non-fumeur pour la vie Freedom from Smoking
Thoracic Institute of Montreal Anti-Tobacco Centre, 1993
Language: French, English
Contact: Tel: (514) 849-5201, ext. 2503
Fax: (514) 843-2087

Integrated Tobacco Recovery for Urban Aboriginal Adults and Adolescents
Nechi Institute, 1996/7
Language: English
Contact: Tel: (403) 458-1884 Fax: (403) 458-1883
Email: nechi@nechi.com

Kichi Chistemaw Pimatisiwin (Tobacco is the Way of Life)
Native Women’s Transition Centre, 1997
Language: English
Contact: Tel: (204) 989-8240 Fax: (204) 585-1101

NASAWIN
Union of Ontario Indians Health Office, 1992
Language: English
Contact: Tel: (705) 657-9383 Fax: (705) 657-2341

Protecting Our Families “The Non-Traditional Use of Tobacco”
Protégeons nos Familles “L’usage non traditionnel du tabac”
National Indian and Inuit Community Health Representatives Organization, 1996/1999
Language: English, French
Contact: Tel: (450) 632-0892 Fax: (450) 632-2111 Email: niichro@niichro.com

Sacred Plant, Sacred Ways Plante sacrée, Usages sacrés
National Association of Friendship Centres
Language: English, French
Contact: Tel: (613) 563-4844 Fax: (613) 594-3428

Yes, I Quit! Facilitator’s Guide: group method for smoking cessation among the First Nations
Oui, j’arrête! Guide de l’animateur: méthode de groupe pour cesser de fumer pour les Premières Nations
Healthy Lifestyles/Heart Health, Dept. of Public Health for Central Montreal
Language: English, French
Contact: Tel: (514) 528-2400 Fax: (514) 528-2512

WEB RESOURCES

Really thorough guide to Smoking Cessation Resources
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/tobaccoreduction/pdf/cessproge.pdf

Health Canada provides excellent resource sites on a variety of topics such as:

Go Smoke Free – has a lot of on-line guides and info
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/tobacco/index.html

Aboriginal Tobacco Control Program
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fnihb/chp/chp-psc.htm

Media Campaigns
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hecs-sesc/tobacco/facts/mild/tvads.html#athletes

New estimates of deaths from coronary heart disease due to second- hand-smoke
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/pphb-dgspsp/publicat/cdic-mcc/
23-1/b_e.html

Announcement of funding for First International Conference on Tobacco Control for French-speaking countries
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/english/media/releases/2002/2002_10.htm

Youth Advisory Committee
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hppb/tobacco/yac/yac/index.html

The anatomy of a cigarette:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/cigarette/anat_text.html

Environmental Tobacco Smoke:
http://www.camh.net/otru/ETSreportMay2001.PDF

A Tribe Called Quit: Youth against tobacco
http://www.ayn.ca/health/en/tribe/

National Clearinghouse on Tobacco: A national resource providing information and networking services relevant to tobacco use prevention and reduction programs, projects, resources, and advocacy initiatives.
Toll-free across Canada: 1-800-267-5234
http://www.ncth.ca

Infotobacco
http://www.infotobacco.com

Great youth-oriented site
http://www.quit4life.com

Award-winning Ministry of Health website for kids, teachers and parents to get the straight facts on tobacco.
http://www.tobaccofacts.org

British Columbia’s source of information on tobacco and tobacco addiction for researchers, health professionals, teachers and the public. Toll-free in British Columbia 1-800-663-1880.
http://www.preventionsource.bc.ca

What is in tobacco?
http://www.hlth.gov.bc.ca/ttdr/index.html

Tobacco use among aboriginal children and youth
http://www.cps.ca/english/statements/II/ii99-01.htm

Tobacco cessation guideline from the US Surgeon General
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/tobacco/

The Canadian Council for Tobacco Control (CCTC)
http://www.cctc.ca

Site for cessation and women
http://www.4woman.gov/QuitSmoking/index.cfm

See a picture of a Smoky Sue doll at
http://home.pacbell.net/stoppreg/smoke.htm

The Aboriginal Youth Network has made a tobacco-healing manual for youth (by youth) that will be distributed to First Nations communities all over the province. You can find the on-line manual on the AYN by going to
http://ayn.ca/quit/en/manual_pdfs/tobacco_manual72.PDF.