The World Health Organization and Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco are two of the several control groups targeting tobacco consumption are turning up all over the place, on billboards, on the internet, and in the media

Organizations Affecting the Cigarette Industry

The World Health Organization and Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco are two of the several control groups targeting tobacco consumption. Their messages are turning up all over the place, on billboards, on the Internet, and in the media. Tobacco control programs vary in focus, but all are aimed at lowering the number of smokers and smoke related deaths. In affect, these groups, public and private, are having huge effects on the tobacco industry.

Some groups include:

The American Cancer Society (ACS)- Hosted the Great American Smoke out, which spread awarness.
Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco (C.O.S.T.) - Gives people options about how to fight tobacco companies that are "preying upon children." The tobacco industry spends millions of dollars every day hoping to lure kids into the deadly habit of smoking.
The World Health Organization- The WHO has worked hand and hand with the U.S. and other foreign countries trying to shape anti-tobacco legislation. Their focus has often been on lowering use of tobacco in third world countries.

For more information on spcific smoking-related international issues, courtesy of the Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS), please click here

For information about health issues and a chronology of related events sponsored by various organizations, (also courtesy of TIPS), please click here

For a complete set of research, data and reports on the tobacco industry sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and TIPS, please click here

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