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Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype - http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html
Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry. |
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MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
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Youth and Tobacco Facts - http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202
Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. |
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StepUpNC.com - http://stepupnc.com/
A place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. Teens can come here to learn more about the perils of smoking, to find out how to quit, to become an activist, or just to see what other teens around North Carolina are doing about tobacco prevention and control. |
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Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes - http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html
Just three cigarette brands account for nearly all teen smoking: Marlboro (Philip Morris), Newport (Lorillard), and Camel (RJ Reynolds). These are among the most heavily advertised and promoted cigarette brands, in particular Marlboro, and Marlboro alone accounts for nearly two thirds of teen smoking. |
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Addicting Kids to Nicotine - http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html
Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain. |
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Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html
Time magazine article on bidis. |
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The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease - http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm
Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment. |
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Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths - http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331
Study presents national estimates of the proportion of youths in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences. |
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Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm
Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities. |
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Slugfest in the Smoke Ring - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm
Washington Post article describes the approaches of the four major tobacco companies -- Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and Lorillard -- to get younger smokers, and explains why this is so important to the industry. |
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Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/background_briefings/smoking/313203.stm
Tobacco products cause more lung cancer to smokers who start young, recent research finds; scientists think it may relate to the impact of smoking at an age when the lungs are still developing. |
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Educational Support Materials on Cancer - http://extension.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/
Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format. |
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ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide - http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922
Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. |
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Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet - http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm
Facts on tobacco use among children, nicotine and nicotine addiction in children, tobacco-caused disease, questions to ask candidates for public office, children and tobacco advertising. |