Resources

Whether you or someone you love has cancer, knowing what to expect can help you cope. From basic information about cancer and its causes to in-depth information on specific cancer types - including risk factors, early detection, diagnosis, and treatment options - you'll find it on the American Cancer Society website.

The American Heart Association is the nation's oldest and largest voluntary organization dedicated to fighting heart disease and stroke. To improve the lives of all Americans, we provide public health education in a variety of ways. We're the nation's leader in CPR education training. We help people understand the importance of healthy lifestyle choices. We provide science-based treatment guidelines to healthcare professionals to help them provide quality care to their patients. We educate lawmakers, policymakers and the public as we advocate for changes to protect and improve the health of our communities.

For more than a century, the American Lung Association has led the fight for healthy lungs and healthy air. Today, we are focused on eliminating tobacco use and related lung disease, improving overall air quality for all and reducing the burden of lung disease on patients and their families.

The California Department of Public Health works to protect the public's health in the Golden State and helps shape positive health outcomes for individuals, families and communities. The Department's programs and services, implemented in collaboration with local health departments and state, federal and private partners, touch the lives of every Californian and visitor to the state 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is at the forefront of the nation's efforts to reduce deaths and prevent chronic diseases that result from tobacco use. The agency and its partners promote tobacco control interventions, including actions to prevent youth from starting to use tobacco, smoke-free environments, programs to help tobacco users quit, and steps to eliminate tobacco-related health disparities in different population groups.

First 5 California funds programs that educate parents, grandparents, caregivers, and teachers about the critical role they play during a child's first five years. The promise of First 5 California is to continue to invest in integrated programs and resources designed to benefit three target audiences: the Child, the Teacher, and the Parent. Current efforts focus on the areas of nutrition, early literacy and language development, and smoking cessation, among others.

UCSF Smoking Cessation Leadership Center mission is to decrease smoking rates and increase the number of health professionals who help smokers quit. They aim to drive health systems transformation and deliver sustainable solutions through providing technical assistance, organizing leadership summits, social marketing, bringing together catalytic leaders, and producing national webinars for education.

Stanford Medicine has developed theory- based and evidence-informed curriculums and resource created by educators, parents, youth and researchers aimed at preventing middle and high school students' use of tobacco and nicotine.

Truth Initiative is America's largest non-profit public health organization dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past. We speak, seek and spread the truth about tobacco through education, tobacco-control research and policy studies, and community activism and engagement.

Tobacco-Free Kids is an advocacy organization that works to reduce tobacco consumption. Through policy advocacy campaigns they promote the adoption of proven solutions that are most effective at reducing tobacco use.

Our mission is to improve the health of all Californians by reducing illness and premature death from the use of tobacco products. In November 1988, California voters approved the Tobacco Tax and Health Protection Act through the passage of Proposition 99, which added a 25-cent tax to each pack of cigarettes. A portion of the tax funds the California Tobacco Prevention Program (CTPP), the longest-running comprehensive tobacco control program in the nation.

Our goal is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, the World Health Organization staff works side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people. Together we strive to combat diseases - infectious diseases like influenza and HIV and non-communicable ones like cancer and heart disease. We ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink - and the medicines and vaccines they need.

The American CancerSociety (ACS) is a nationwide, community-based voluntary health organizationcommitted to reducing the burden of cancer. In California, ACS providesprograms and services for individuals affected by cancer and their families,including patient support, community fundraising, advocacy, and researchinitiatives. These efforts focus on improving quality of life, expanding accessto resources, and advancing the prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer.