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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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Effect of Ending an Antitobacco Youth Campaign on Adolescent Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking --- Minnesota, 2002--2003 - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5314a1.htm
Research measures the effect of cutting funding for Minnesota's youth antitobacco campaign, while at the same time the tobacco industry increased its protobacco spending. |
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Healthy Mississippi - http://www.healthy-miss.org
Committed to teaching Mississippi's youth about the dangers of tobacco use. |
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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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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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Death Playing Cards - http://www.deathcards.com
Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens. |
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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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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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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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Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board - http://www.tobacco.org/News/990325ca4h.html
Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris. |
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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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Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion - http://www.ftcc.fsu.edu/resreports/july99/index.html
Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing. |
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Osceola SWAT - http://www.geocities.com/osceolaswat/
Teen led program working against tobacco in Osceola, Florida. Summary of the program, contact links and pictures. |
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ScienceU: Cigarette Advertising and Children - http://scienceu.fsu.edu/content/adsmart/docs/adschildren.html
Science-based curriculum examines why advertisers spend money on advertising in general, and why tobacco companies spend money on advertising in particular. |