Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR)
White House Presidential Proclamation: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
State of North Carolina Proclamation: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, 2010
APIA HF Health Brief: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and Tobacco
NC Department of Health and Human Services: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in North Carolina – Report Card 2006
World No Tobacco Day Information
World Health Organization: World No Tobacco Day 2010 Theme: Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing to women
World Health Organization: World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2010 Protect women from tobacco marketing and smoke
Resources
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against Tobacco
http://apicat.org/
www.appealforcommunities.org/index2.php
Washington State Chinese Cancer Network Association: Smoking Cessation Website
www.wsccna.org/yw_quit-tobacco.htm
NC Department of Health and Human Services: Healthy Carolinians – County Profiles
www.healthycarolinians.org/county/default.aspx
Oral Cancer Foundation: Demographics of Tobacco Use
http://oralcancerfoundation.org/tobacco/demographics_tobacco.htm
National Networks for Tobacco Control and Prevention
www.tobaccopreventionnetworks.org/site/c.ksJPKXPFJpH/b.2588495/
MedlinePlus: Quitting Smoking – Multiple Languages
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/quittingsmoking.html#Vietnamese
World Health Organization: Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
www.who.int/tobacco/wntd/2010/en/index.html
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