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Tobacco Action Plan

The top 5 priorities

  1. Create One National Campaign: One Logo/Name and Message
  2. Develop Clearinghouse on LGBT Tobacco Efforts
  3. Identify Data Sets for Analysis and Conduct New Research
  4. Enhance Connectivity with Larger Anti-Smoking Organizations
  5. Build Resources for Development Programs and Initiatives

see full action plan (PDF)

Resource Library

Countermarketing Brochures & Handouts

  • Cancer Facts for Gay and Bisexual Men

    American Cancer Society Brochure

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  • Cancer Facts for Gay and Bisexual Men - Spanish

    Amercican Cancer Society Brochure in Spanish

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  • Cancer Facts for Lesbians

    American Cancer Society Brochure

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  • Cancer Facts for Lesbians - in Spanish

    American Cancer Society brochure - in Spanish

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  • GLBT's and Tobacco - Spanish

    American Cancer Society brochure on LGBT community - in Spanish

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  • Mautner Project's Anti-Smoking Education Campaign

    Information about older lesbians and smoking and about the Delicious Kiss campaign.

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  • Ohio Smoking Cessation handout 8.5x11

    Handout on the harmful effects of cigarette smoking put together by the Lesbian Gay Community Center of Greater Cleveland and the Ohio Tobacco Quit Line.

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  • Smokefree Workplace Brochure

    American Cancer Society brochure on smoke free workplace

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  • SmokeFree.net - Fighting for Smoke Free Air

    To recieve smokefree news about clean air initiatives you can subcribe to the Joe Cherner announcement list. The archives are also available for all to read.


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  • Smoking Coupon

    Clever little coupon handout from the Lesbian Gay Community Center of Greater Cleveland.

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  • Tobacco and the LGBT Community

    American Cancer Society's Brochure on the LGBT Community

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  • Vermont Quit Line 5x7 card

    Postcard advertising the Vermont quit line in collaboration with the queer community center

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  • When Smokers Quit

    American Cancer Society visual handout on effects of quitting smoking

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  • Youth Pride Inc. Countermarketing

    Posters and Postcard created by Youth Pride Inc. Did you know that if the land now used for growing tobacco were planted with grain, it would be enough to feed a million people each year.

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Countermarketing Resources

  • "Qualitative Investigation of Smokers and Non-Smokers in the LGBT Market" Executive Summary

    Here is a executive summary of a "Qualitative Investigation of Smokers and Non-Smokers in the LGBT Market" by Winston Stuart Associates, LTD. Included is the respondent screener and discussion guides from LGBT focus groups conducted in 2001, smokers and nonsmokers, in Sacramento and San Francisco.


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  • Gay American Smoke Out Press Release

    Sample Press Release that can be used by any organization to promote the Gay American Smoke Out

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  • Mautner Project's Anti-Smoking Education Campaign

    Information about older lesbians and smoking and about the Delicious Kiss campaign.

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  • Never Too Late - Poster

    American Cancer Society Poster with quit line info (OR & WA)

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  • Pride 2008 Ad

    This ad and variations upon it ran in a variety of pride guides and LGBT publications during the 2008 LGBT pride 'season'.

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  • Tobacco Education Clearinghouse Catalogue of California (TECC)

    Calalog of Tobacco Eduation materials - including The Last Drag promo materials

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  • Trinkets and Trash

    The online surveillance system and archive of tobacco
    products and tobacco industry marketing materials.

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  • United, Fierce, and Fabulous!
    LGBT Elected Officials Taking a Stand Against the Tobacco Industry

    Premiered at this year's Gay and Lesbian Leadership Institute in December 2009, the California LGBT Tobacco Education Partnership produced an ad saluting 40 LGBT elected officials who have signed a statement that they will not accept tobacco industry contributions.

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  • www.healthypride.com

    A website dedicated to LGBT health products. They have a number of tobacco cessation products

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LGBT Countermarketing Ads

  • Black and white ad for smoking cessation with female couple

    Source: Rhode Island

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  • Black and white ad for smoking cessation with gay male couple

    Source: Rhode Island

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  • Butt Out's 2010 Pride Ad

    The colorful ad we’ll be running in the 2010 Pride editions of two two local LGBT papers in San Francisco with wonderful quotes from our community leaders!

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  • Chicago Pride 2009

    The Network's most recent countermarketing Ad set to premiere in the Windy City Times.

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  • Cigarettes are my Greatest Enemy

    8.5 x 11 countermarketing ad from Cigarettes Are My Greatest Enemy anti-tobacco campaign. Anyone interested in adapting the campaign should contact Better World Advertising at info@socialmarketing.com or (415) 979-9775.

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  • Delicious Lesbian Kiss (Palm Cards)

    Mautner Project

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  • Delicious Lesbian Kiss (poster)

    Mautner Project encourages Lesbians to "KISS OFF" smoking with this counter-marketing poster


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  • Gay American Smoke Out Logos -B/W

    Can be used by anyone. Feel free to download and use in your materials

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  • Gay American Smoke Out Logos -Color

    Can be used by anyone. Feel free to download and use in your materials.

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  • Gay City Posters

    Tobacco counter-marketing posters that can be used by any organization to promote cessation efforts in local LGBT communiites

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  • Its Your lips or mine (poster)

    Mautner Project encourages Lesbians to "KISS OFF" smoking with this counter-marketing poster

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  • Marlboro Advertisement - Anti-Tobacco

    The first anti-tobacco ad ever to run in Out Magazine and The Advocate. January 2003.

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  • Pride 2008 Ad

    This ad and variations upon it ran in a variety of pride guides and LGBT publications during the 2008 LGBT pride 'season'.

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State Campaigns againt Tobacco in LGBT Communities

  • California Anti-Tobacco Campaign "When did they become a part of us?"

    Pictures from the campaign.
    California LGBT Tobacco Education Partnership is funded by the California Tobacco Control Program, part of California Department of Public Health.
    You can also view their ecard here http://www.tobaccofreeca.com/ecards.html.


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  • Colorado LGBT Anti-Smoking Campaign

    This website displays the campaign materials created by the Colorado Quitline and the LGBT Community Center of Colorado.

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  • New Mexico LGBTQI STOMP Anti-tobacco Campaign Materials

    This website displays the campaign materials created by STOMP and the New Mexico Department of Health.

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  • Washington State, Gay City and Verbena Health LGBT Anti-tobacco Campaign

    Two campaign examples- Connect the Dots and My Greatest Enemy, co-sponsored by Verbena Health, Gay City and the Washington State Department of Health.

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Tobacco Marketing to LGBTs

  • A Letter from Philip Morris

    Out Magazine 2000. Notice how they use the words Diversity, Sexual Orientation, and HIV/AIDS.

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  • American Spirit "Freedom to choose" Ad

    2/3 page from American Spirit. ad lists different "freedoms". Ad found in The Advocate, June 21, 2005; and Newsweek, July 4, 2004.

    retrieved from www.trinketsandtrash.org

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  • American Spirit ad targeting LGBT communitity

    Tobacco Marketing to LGBT's. Advertised in Out Magazine and The Advocate in 2003. Note the rainbow colors around the red circle on the front pack

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  • Camel Advertisment for Gay Pride

    Tobacco Marketing to LGBT's.

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  • Camel Pride

    retrieved from trinketsandtrash.org

    Ad in promotion of Camel sponsored events at various clubs/bars during Pride Weekend in 2000 in San Francisco, CA. "Pleasure of Pride" "Check out pride weekend events at these Camel club locations" Found in the June 21-27, 2000 issue of San Francisco Weekly.

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  • Case Study of Targeting

    Powerpoint presentation on how LGBT's have been targeted for marketing by Big Tobacco. Scout, 2005

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  • Catch a Buz

    Tobacco Marketing to LGBT's. Ad for Buz cigarettes - ran in Canada

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  • Commercial Closet Association

    Commercial Closet Association advocates for advertising that respects the diversity of all, specifically gender identity/expression and sexual orientation, for a more accepting society and better business results.

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  • Companies that Care Ad

    "Companies that Care" advertorial found in the January 2002 issue of OUT. Text on top: "America's best companies can't put a value dollar on diversity, but they recognize the importance of it nonetheless. They know there's inherent value in a workforce that reflects all the characteristics of the communities they serve. And they know that treating all customers with respect is good business and good corporate citizenship. The companies that follow illustrate many different approaches to diversity - some stress philanthropy, others focus on diversity in hiring, and others concentrate on understanding and meeting the unique needs of minority customers. Whatever the approach, each of these companies has decided to demonstrate its commitment to gay and lesbian Americans by speaking directly to us in...Companies that Care." Note that Philip Morris is the first highlighted company. Other companies also mentioned included Kodak, Microsoft, ChevronTexaco, and Anheuser Busch.

    retrieved from www.trinketsandtrash.org

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  • Gay-Specific Marketing Practices May Influence Brand Loyalty and Purchase Decisions of Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals

    Harris Interactive survey

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  • Lesbians and Gays Face Tobacco Targeting

    Article on how LGBT's are targeted by big tobacco, 1994

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  • Lucky Strike "Dude, that's so gay" advertisement

    Ad found in the 2001 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)Media Awards Program. Text: "Whenever someone yells, 'Dude, that's so gay,'we'll be there." "Thank you, GLAAD, for allowing us to take part in such an important event."

    retrieved from www.trinketsandtrash.org

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  • Lucky Strike Ad for the GLAAD dinner 2001

    Ad found in the 2001 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)Media Awards Program.

    retrieved from www.trinketsandtrash.org

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  • Lucky Strike- Coming Out ad

    retrieved from www.trinketsandtrash.org

    Ad found in the 2001 Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD)Media Awards Program.

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  • Marlboro Advertisement - Anti-Tobacco

    The first anti-tobacco ad ever to run in Out Magazine and The Advocate. January 2003.

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  • Parliament Ad 2

    retreived from trinketsandtrash.org

    This ad was found in a 1995 issue of OUT magazine. A nearly identical ad, which only included the image of the woman in the pool and the man leaning against the arch (and excluding the second man) was found in a 1995 issue of Rolling Stone.

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  • Parliament Ad- two men and a dog

    This has been the only overtly gay ad from manufacturer Philip Morris since it debuted Parliament as the first tobacco brand to advertise in American gay media in spring 1994.

    retrieved from www.commercialcloset.org

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  • Parliament Lights Advertisements

    The same Parliament Lights ad, but in two different publications in the same month. Notice the addition of the man in the Out Magazine.

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  • Philip Morris to push brands on gay media

    An article from the Wall Street Journal, 1992

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  • Project SCUM

    How a tobacco company marketed the Gay and Homeless communities.

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  • Virginia Slims Advertisement

    Tobacco Marketing to LGBT's

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  • Ways the Tobacco Industry Markets to Lesbians and gays

    An article by Perry Stevens, 2001

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