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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

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