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Ad Money Moves from Billboards to Print - http://www.tobacco.org/News/000515ma.html Report finds cigarette marketing to teens through magazine advertising increased after the Master Settlement Agreement took effect in November

Addicting the Young - http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/01/mm0192_07.html Article on recent tobacco industry tactics to recruit young customers, such as cartoon characters in cigarette ads, rock music promotions, and making cigarettes easily available to youth.

Adolescent Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Magazines - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/7/516 Research by Harvard Professor.

Ads for Tobacco and Alcohol Swamp New Swimsuit Issue - http://search.csmonitor.com/durable/1998/03/12/feat/media.1.html Article looks at the ads in the 1998 Sports Illustrated annual swimsuit issue, in light of nearly 24 percent of the magazine's readers being between the ages of 12 and 17.

An Ad-erage Day in the Life of a Kid - http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/kids_ad_day.html A tobacco-ad-filled day in the life of a kid.

BAT Lures Young smokers With Online Scheme - http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2001/jan/24/marketingandpr.newmedia British American Tobacco is planning an extraordinary internet campaign to drive unwitting young consumers to bars and clubs where it promotes its cigarettes, according to a leaked company memo. Article explains, and provides the memo.

Behind the Smokescreen: Tobacco Marketing to Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/smokescreen/marketingkids.shtml Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.

Big Bad Wolf Isn't the Only One Puffin' - http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall99/cartoons.htm Study on tobacco use in children's animated feature films finds substantial tobacco use, no showing of consequences, and good characters use as much as bad characters.

Big Tobacco Up to Old Tricks - http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-19-edtwof2.htm USA Today editorial focuses on tobacco industry marketing attractive to teens.

Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids - http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/ Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids before and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.

Brown & Williamson Campaign Targets Young People - http://www.expressindia.com/fe/daily/20000703/fst01021.html Article in India Express covers Brown and Williamson's campaign promoting Kool and Lucky Strike cigarettes.

Cigarette Ads - A Promise Broken - http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/smokead.html Summarizes research showing that tobacco ad spending has not decreased since the tobacco industry agreed to stop targeting youth; examines where the ad budget goes.

Cigarette Ads Influence Teen Smoking - http://personalmd.com/news/a1998021701.shtml Summary of recent research.

Cigarette Ads Stomp Out Anti-Smoking Efforts - http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88094&page=1 Study concludes that cigarette ads lead young people to identify smoking with popularity and relaxation, and these associations are stronger than any perceived risk picked up from anti-smoking ads.

Cigarette Brand Preferences Among Adolescents - http://monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/occpapers/occ45.pdf Paper from the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Concludes: "The very high rates of cigarette smoking found among American teenagers in the late 1990s are associated with the popularity of just three brands..."

Cigarette-makers Accused of Increasing Ads that Target Teens - May 17, 2000 - http://archives.cnn.com/2000/US/05/17/tobacco.kids.01/ CNN report on research that shows tobacco industry has increased advertising aimed at teens, following an agreement not to do so.

CNN.com: Cigarette-makers Accused of Increasing Ads that Target Teens - http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/05/17/tobacco.kids.01/ CNN report on studies showing that the tobacco industry has increased ads targetting teens.

Court Snuffs "Kool MIXX" - http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/kool_mixx_court.html Court determines that Brown and Tilliamson's "Kool MIXX" ad campaign targets children.

Designing a Cigarette for the First Time Smoker - http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/suppl_1/i32 Article in scientific journal examines how R. J. Reynolds designed a cigarette to appeal to young starters.

Do Candy Cigarettes Encourage Young People to Smoke? - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/362 Paper in British Medical Journal. Executives of both the tobacco and candy industries regarded candy cigarettes as good advertising to future smokers; tobacco companies granted candy makers permission to use cigarette pack designs and tolerated trademark infringement.

Effect Of Advertising On Children's Use Of Tobacco - http://www.mediafamily.org/facts/facts_tobacco.shtml Factsheet from the National Institute on Media and the Family.

Ever Wonder What the Future Holds for Joe? - http://www.joechemo.org/ Essay comments on RJ Reynolds' Joe Camel advertising campaign.

Factsheets: Tobacco Company Marketing to Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/index23.shtml A dozen factsheets in PDF format on Philip Morris and tobacco industry marketing to kids.

Influence of Tobacco Marketing and Exposure to Smokers on Adolescent Susceptibility to Smoking - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7563188?dopt=Abstract Scientific paper finds cigarette advertising is a stronger influence on teen smoking than other factors.

Lorillard Elbows Portland Hoopsters Off the Court - http://www.wweek.com/story.php?story=2962 Article on tobacco giant Lorillard's basketball promotion, and how Lorillard bounced a team off the court because of their T-shirts.

Marketing Professor Finds Youth More Influenced by Cigarette Advertising Than Adults - http://www.ndsn.org/may96/tobacco.html Marketing professor finds that teens are more likely to be influenced by strategic tobacco advertising than adults.

News & Opinion: Black Lungs - http://weeklywire.com/ww/06-22-98/gambit_feat-scut.html Column on tobacco marketing to black teens.

Philip Morris and Targeting Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/philipmorris.pdf Factsheet outlines how tobacco giant Philip Morris (Altria) targets kids, and documents what Philip Morris says in private about marketing to kids and about its anti-youth-smoking ads as a public relations ploy.

Philip Morris Polled Teens on Smoking - http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9612/15/youth.smoking/ The nation's largest tobacco company used pollsters through the 1970s and 1980s to learn more about teens' smoking attitudes.

Philip Morris Schoolbook Covers - http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=2&subcategory_id=38&article_id=45 Commercial Alert takes a hard look at Philip Morris's giveaway of school book covers.

R.J. Reynolds Fined for Ads in Youth Magazines - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8888-2002Jun6?language=printer Washington Post article; a judge found that a major tobacco company violated the terms of the 1998 national tobacco settlement by running magazine cigarette ads aimed at teenagers.

Request for Investigation of Philip Morris Textbook Covers - http://www.commercialalert.org/tobacbookcoverlet.html Letter from Commercial Alert requests Attorney General investigate Philip Morris for promotions to teens.

RJR on the "youth market" - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddrjryouth.html Document from R.J. Reynolds (RJR) site shows that 14 year old smokers were not just a viable, but a very sought after market for RJR.

Smoke This - http://www.localaccess.com/wfwc/issue7/smoke.htm Op-ed on tobacco industry promotions to youth.

Special Report: Philip Morris Has Not Changed - http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/philipmorris/ Report on tobacco giant Philip Morris finds the tobacco giant is still bombarding kids with cigarette advertising, and still fighting effective tobacco education programs for kids.

Study: Tobacco Companies Still Market Cigarettes to Teens - http://edition.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/08/15/tobacco.advertising/ New England Journal of Medicine study finds that a 1998 tobacco industry promise not to market to teens has had little effect; advertising for youth brands of cigarettes in youth-oriented magazines has not decreased.

The Marlboro Man lives - http://archive.salon.com/health/feature/2000/02/10/tobacco_ads/ Article in Salon magazine. "Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth."

They said WHAT? - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/documentquotes.html Collection of quotes: what the industry says in its own internal documents on nicotine and addiction, tobacco products and health, legalese, youth, and evidence.

Tobacco Ads May Undermine Good Parenting - http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/Script/DisplayPressRelease.php3?Display=521 A new study presents evidence that tobacco industry marketing undermines the best efforts of parents to prevent their kids from smoking.

Tobacco Ads Still Luring Teens - http://no-smoking.org/june02/06-18-02-4.html Despite tobacco industry claims, big tobacco's marketing campaigns continue to have the greatest influence on children to start smoking, a new study finds.

Tobacco Advertising and Youth - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter28/Chapter28Advertising.html Factsheet from the Tobacco Reference Guide.

Tobacco Advertising in Magazines with Youth Readership - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/doubletalk/ Analysis of market research data shows the largest tobacco company is still spending $15 million a day on advertising, much of it in magazines and other venues that impact kids.

Tobacco Advertising influences adolescents to start smoking - http://www.nida.nih.gov/Meetsum/Nicotine/Pierce.html NIH analysis of what caused smoking to increase over the last 70 years.

Tobacco and Alcohol Advertisements in Magazines: Are Young Readers Being Targeted? - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/extract/283/16/2106 JAMA article (research letter) presents results of simple study counting ads in magazines with varying youth readerships.

Tobacco and the Media - http://www.andrews.edu/IPA/education/adolescent_health/Media_Influence/sld028.htm Slide presentation from Media Influence on the Health of Adolescents at Andrews University.

Tobacco Companies Finding Easy Way Around Magazine Advertising Ban to Target Youth - http://www.healthaffairs.org/press/marapr0202.htm A new study examines how the tobacco industry has complied with a 1998 court settlement banning magazine advertising directed at teenagers, finds that youth targeting persisted and even increased in the first two years after the ban went into effect.

Tobacco Company Magazine Ads Continue To Target Children - http://www.oncolink.com/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=1568 Research report from Harvard Business School analyzes advertising expenditures in 30 adult- and youth-oriented magazines, finds that young people smoke cigarettes advertised in youth magazines.

Tobacco Giant's Secret Papers Revealed - http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/07/smoking.uk Britain's biggest tobacco company was so concerned that it would lose market share to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin that it attempted to market a 'rebellious' image for cigarettes to make them more attractive to youngsters.

Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9480360?dopt=Abstract Research measures whether tobacco advertising and promotion increases the likelihood that youths will begin smoking.

Tobacco Industry Quotes on Marketing to Kids - http://www.mascotcoalition.org/education/facts/own_words2.html Quotes compiled by MASCOT, the Multicultural advocates for social change on tobacco.

Tobacco Industry Reviewed Potential Smoking Habits of 5-year-olds - http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/07/minn.tobacco/ Brown and Williamson Tobacco engaged a marketing research firm to look at the potential smoking habits of children as young as 5, according to internal company documents. A judge said Brown and Williamson "blatantly abused" attorney-client privilege to keep these documents secret.

Tobacco Industry Teen Smoking Ads Make Teens Want to Smoke - http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/news/20061031/study-teen-antismoking-ads-backfiring Recent research shows "youth smoking prevention ads" run by Philip Morris and Lorillard increase desire of teens to smoke.

Tobacco Marketing and Young People - http://www.tobaccopapers.com/casestudies/index.htm#tobaccomarketing Research finds the tobacco industry has detailed pictures of the values and aspirations of smokers as young as 15 years.

Two Studies Show: Ads Get Kids to Smoke - http://www.no-smoking.org/feb98/02-17-98-3.html Two research studies find that cigarette advertising and promotion are the single most important factor in influencing kids to smoke, more important than family or friends who smoke.

UK tobacco firm targets African youth - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/933430.stm BAT (British American Tobacco) hands out free cigarettes to teenagers at sports events in Africa, a BBC investigation finds.

Waxman: Marketing Tobacco to Children - http://democrats.reform.house.gov/Documents/20040827161614-28789.pdf Letter from Congressman Henry Waxman to his colleagues highlights what the tobacco industry says in private about marketing cigarettes to kids.

Why and How the Tobacco Industry Sells Cigarettes to Young Adults - http://www.kstask.org/pdf/LingAJPHYoungAdults.pdf Scientific report examines tobacco industry documents to analyze tobacco industry strategies that encourage smoking by young adults.

Youth: Target Group 12-17 - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28828-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Examines marketing and market analysis of 12-17 year olds by the tobacco industry.

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