Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Information

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) (PDF)

White House Presidential Proclamation: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (PDF)

State of North Carolina Proclamation: Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, 2010 (PDF)

APIA HF Health Brief: Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders and Tobacco (PDF)

NC Department of Health and Human Services: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in North Carolina – Report Card 2006 (PDF)

World No Tobacco Day Information

World Health Organization: World No Tobacco Day 2010
Theme: Gender and tobacco with an emphasis on marketing
to women (PDF)

World Health Organization: World No Tobacco Day, 31 May 2010
Protect women from tobacco marketing and smoke (PDF)

Resources

Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against Tobacco

http://apicat.org/

Asian Pacific Islander Coalition Against Tobacco

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