IMPORTANT NOTICE
     As of June 30, 2007, funding for the built project ended. Though this site will not be updated, we will contine to maintain the many great resources that were developed with funds from California's tobacco tax (Proposition 99). We hope you will continue to utilize them with organized labor and blue collar populations.
     Hard copies of most of the materials may be obtained through the Tobacco Education Clearinghouse of California (TECC): www.tobaccofreecatalog.org.


Http://Smoking.Drugabuse.Gov

Website for September, 2006

http://smoking.drugabuse.gov - Nicotine is a drug!

A habit is something that people do so often that they're no longer aware they're doing it. Do you have a bad habit? Do you have a co-worker with a bad habit? Perhaps your co-worker takes a lot of smoke breaks or doesn't pay attention to where he spits tobacco. Those may seem like bad habits, but they're more than that - they're signs of addiction.

Nicotine is an addictive drug. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has a website that includes the effects of tobacco. http://smoking.drugabuse.gov emphasizes the addictiveness of nicotine with a fact sheet and a research report. The main website for NIDA, http://smoking.drugabuse.gov, lists many drugs but still calls tobacco "one the most heavily used addictive drugs in America."

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