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An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign - http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/aaaalert.html Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program.

Arts Education - http://www.double-vision.com Tobacco and drug prevention for schools. "Smoke Screen", mime, juggling, comedy, rap for school assemblies and keynotes.

Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth - http://www.gwu.edu/~csfy/ Organization at The George Washington University.

Death Playing Cards - http://www.deathcards.com Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens.

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.

Healthy Mississippi - http://www.healthy-miss.org Committed to teaching Mississippi's youth about the dangers of tobacco use.

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.

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".

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.

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.

Osceola SWAT - http://www.geocities.com/osceolaswat/ Teen led program working against tobacco in Osceola, Florida. Summary of the program, contact links and pictures.

Outrage Avenue - http://www.outrageavenue.com/ Innovative program for teens uses "reality TV" approach.

Philip Morris Anti-Smoking Ads Fail to Work - http://www.no-smoking.org/may02/05-31-02-3.html Study examines 9000 people exposed to anti-smoking ads, finds that the Philip Morris "Think, Don't Smoke" ads are ineffective.

Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_4079.htm Abstracts from presentations at a health conference.

Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches - http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/PHD745/ Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use.

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.

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.

Smoke Screeners - http://www.fablevision.com/smokescreeners/contents.html Program for middle or early high school lets students review smoking content and messages in movies and TV, becoming more media literate in the process and learning how onscreen smoking glamorizes cigarettes.

Smoke-Free Kids - http://www.smokefree.gov Smoke-Free Kids is a collaboration between the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Women's National Team, and US Soccer.

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.

Smoking Prevention - http://www.angelfire.com/ny4/healthsite/healthsite.html Effects of smoking cigarettes. Reasons not to smoke. Put together by high school students.

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.

Smoking: truth or dare - http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0776581.html Focus is on the consequences of smoking here and now, not maybe later. Here and now, smoking robs teens of their looks, nicotine addiction takes over their lives, and empties their wallets.

StepUPNC - http://stepupnc.com/ Place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control.

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.

The Truth - http://www.thetruth.com/ Dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions. Requires flash plugin.

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.

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.

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.

You Are The Target - http://www.you-are-the-target.com/ Book, curriculum, and test project with peer mentors exposes tobacco industry practices.

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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