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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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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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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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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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Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advocate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson) - http://www.tobaccofree.org/
Anti-smoking group offers youth a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources. Founded by Patrick Reynolds. |
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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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Young People and Smoking - http://newash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_108.pdf
Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. |
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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. |
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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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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. |