National strategy

• Towards a smoke-free generation: tobacco control plan for England https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/towards-a-smoke-free-generation-tobacco-control-plan-for-england

For local data on smoking

• Public Health England's Local Tobacco Control Profiles are a snapshot of the extent of tobacco use, tobacco related harm, and measures being taken to reduce this harm at a local level https://fingertips.phe.org.uk/profile/tobacco-control
• ASH's Ready Reckoner tool provides local costs of tobacco broken down to regional and local authority level in England. This includes costs and the burden facing the NHS, costs for social care, smoking related litter and fires, and costs to the wider economy http://ash.lelan.co.uk/

UK

• Public Health England https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/public-health-england
• Public Health England updated evidence review on e-cigarettes and heated tobacco products (Feb 2018)
• For partners, the Public Health England campaign resources page has resources on major campaigns such as health harms and Stoptober
• The website of the national Smoking in Pregnancy Challenge Group http://smokefreeaction.org.uk/smokefree-nhs/smoking-in-pregnancy-challenge-group/ This was set up in 2012 and is a partnership between the Royal College of Midwives and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, the voluntary sector and academia. The website has a range of resources and reports on this issue.
• The Action on Smoking and Health website has a wide range of detailed briefings and factsheets on all aspects of tobacco control and smoking, as well as the latest evidence on electronic cigarettes. It also has tools to help calculate the local cost of smoking such as the ASH Ready Reckoner http://ash.lelan.co.uk/
• Tobacco Tactics aims to provide up-to-date information on the Tobacco Industry, its allies or those promoting a pro-tobacco agenda. The website explores how the industry influences and often distorts public health debates, using a whole raft of lobbying and public relations tactics
• Tobacconomics" is a report from ASH which shows how the tobacco industry uses dodgy data to try to de-rail public health policy
• Cough Up - the true cost of smoking to the UK (Policy Exchange)
• The Smoke filled room - how the tobacco industry tries to influence policy
• The Royal College of Physicians has published several important publications on smoking and tobacco, including:
  • Passive smoking and children - a comprehensive report into the harm caused by smoking around children in cars and the cost to the NHS
  • Fifty Year Since Smoking and Health, a report including 15 papers presented by leading experts to commemorate 50 years since the publication of the RCP Smoking and health report. This includes a paper by Ailsa Rutter OBE, Director of Fresh.
  • Nicotine Without Smoke: Tobacco Harm Reduction,  highlighting that harm reduction including e-cigarettes has huge potential to prevent death and disability from tobacco use, and to hasten our progress to a tobacco-free society
• Cancer Research UK - About smoking and cancer
• British Heart Foundation
• British Lung Foundation

Global and historical

• The Royal College of Physicians - Smoking and Health (1962) report highlighted the link between smoking and lung cancer, other lung diseases, heart disease and gastrointestinal problems. Using the research of Sir Richard Doll and Sir Austin Bradford Hill, it made a strong epidemiological case for the harm done by smoking. It called on government to implement a raft of public health measures to reduce cigarette smoking, and on doctors to advise patients on illnesses caused and exacerbated by smoking, and to help patients stop smoking.
• The true risk of smoking and benefits of quitting are outlined in Global Effects of Smoking, of Quitting, and Taxing Tobacco, a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine
• The world's first public health treaty, the World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, took effect in February 2005.  The treaty commits nations to implementing scientifically proven measures to reduce tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke.
• The Tobacco Atlas from the World Lung Foundation and American Cancer Society is a comprehensive study of the impact of tobacco around the globe
• The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library contains more than 14 million documents (80+ million pages) created by major tobacco companies related to their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities.
• The Low Tar Lie - how big tobacco created the myth of the "healthier" cigarette
• (Sir) Richard Doll's 1950 paper Smoking and Carcinoma of the Lung revealing the link between smoking and lung cancer

Campaigns

• U.S. National Cancer Institute's Monograph 19 concludes that mass media campaigns can discourage youth from starting to smoke, encourage adults to quit, change attitudes about tobacco use, work against tobacco marketing to reduce consumption. These campaigns are best done as part of comprehensive tobacco control program; however, well-designed campaigns can work in isolation.