OUR SURPREME LINK LIST
We browsed through the web, braved the spam, and exposed the fakes. This is the good stuff. There is something for everyone whether you need information for assignments, help quitting smoking or want to revolt all your friends with gory photos of tumours.
The Truth About Tobacco
tobacco.aadac.com
AADAC stands for Alberta Drug and Alcohol Abuse Commission and with a name like that you know this is serious business. The site lives up to expectations, it is massive, up-to-date and an information gold mine. Find out about everything from chew tobacco to the latest on the Alberta vs Tobacco situation.
Tobacco Facts
www.tobaccofacts.org
From the British Columbia Ministry of Health, comes this site packed with info for everyone from students to teachers. Especially grotesque is the Puke Page where you can practice making sounds of disgust. Seriously, the pictures are worse than the ads at the dentist's office.
quit4life
www.quit4life.ca
One solid resource aimed at helping smoker's quit. If you smoke, you can calculate how much you have spent on cigarettes. Only basic math skills required! If you don't smoke, you can inform your smoker friends. Or you can dream what you would do with that kind of money.
stupid.ca
www.stupid.ca
From some great folks in the Government of Ontario comes stupid.ca. You can just imagine what this site is about. If you think a person in the woods wearing antlers on their head is intriguing, check out the stupid.ca inventory of television ads.
The Truth
www.thetruth.com
You can't go wrong with the truth! With plenty of video content and visuals to serve even the shortest attention span. Zip around from the city to the country in seconds! This site gives you the ability to pick up facts, and make a PDF out of them. Perfect for homework.
Tobacco Reduction Strategy
www.vch.ca/tobacco
Deep down in the Vancouver Coastal Health's corporate mega-page is the Regional Tobacco Strategy section. There you can find some of the programs featured on this site, as well as some that are not specifically for the youth, including GLBT and pre-surgery programs. You can also boogie down over to the VCH site, come back and let us know how much more you like cigarette-slayer.com. Really, we don't mind.
Health Canada
www.gosmokefree.ca
This site is similar to the know-it-all relative/friend. They always bombard you with facts but then there is a surprise, they tell you something so amazingly useful. There is a reason why it's last on the list. It's the last stop. It has EVERYTHING.