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Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate 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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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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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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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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Parenting of Adolescents - http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm
What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects. |
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tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/
Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998. |
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Teens Against Smoking in Kansas - http://www.kstask.org
Kansas youth speaking out about big tobacco companies. Join with other teens in Kansas and help create one strong voice working to expose Big Tobacco's lies. |
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Blowing Smoke - http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu
Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies. |
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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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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html
36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject. |
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In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered - http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html
PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line. |
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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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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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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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Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115
From Consumer Reports. |
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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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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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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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Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract
Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking. |
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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. |