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You Are The Target - http://www.you-are-the-target.com/
Book, curriculum, and test project with peer mentors exposes tobacco industry practices. |
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Death Playing Cards - http://www.deathcards.com
Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens. |
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WhyQuit.Com - http://whyquit.com/whyquit/
Graphic material shows effects of tobacco products on the human body; text explains how smokers can and do die young. |
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StepUPNC - http://stepupnc.com/
Place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. |
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In the Mix: Smoking: The truth unfiltered - http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html
The online companion to the PBS broadcast, with resources and information for teens and educators about smoking prevention, cessation, and advertising. "Cigarettes can cause serious damage to your health right now and in the near future, not just 40 years down the line". |
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SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness - http://www.tobaccosurvivors.org/
Survivors and Victims of Tobacco Empowerment trains survivors of tobacco-related illness to speak with children and teens in schools and community groups about what tobacco products do to their customers. |
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They're Rich, You're Dead - http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco
University of Miami School of Medicine's Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth. "We want you to see what we see in our hospital patients every day from the use of tobacco". Videos in MTV and science versions; interactive web-based CD-ROM; student and teacher workbooks; images and presentations in Adobe and Powerpoint formats. |
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The Badvertising Institute -- Real life projects - http://www.badvertising.org/pages/02%20How%20To%20BADvertise/Projects-Activities-Papers/Real%20Life%20Projects.htm
Suggestions for real-life class projects from the Badvertising Institute: a tobacco tour through town, a tobacco behavior audit, tobacco marketing research, getting on the tobacco industry's mailing lists. |
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Smoking Got Me, The Story of Brandon Carmichael - http://www.smokinggotme.com
Tobacco products gave Brandon Carmichael a disease that cost him his leg at age 19; he now shares his story with school groups. |
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Improving the Odds: Educator's Resource - http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/pubs/tobac-tabac/io-mi/index_e.html
Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme regulates tobacco and promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm associated with smoking; here it provides educational materials and health resources for prevention. |
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Arts Education - http://www.double-vision.com
Tobacco and drug prevention for schools. "Smoke Screen", mime, juggling, comedy, rap for school assemblies and keynotes. |
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Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6 - http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/tobacco/think_like_tobacco_ele.cfm
This lesson for students in grades 4-6 addresses how tobacco marketing exploits the needs, wishes and desires of various target audiences and creates a false image of the effects of smoking. |
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Smoking: Rage Against the Machine - http://www.nehb.ie/youthhealthne/smoking%20rage.htm
North Eastern Health Board, Ireland, offering information for teenagers and young adults helping them make healthy decisions around smoking. |
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It Is Time to Abandon Youth Access Tobacco Programs - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/1/3
Research examines youth access programs and their results, and concludes they are ineffective or even counterproductive. |
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Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/PHD745/
Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use. |