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Blowing Smoke - Tobacco Industry Youth Prevention Ad Campaigns - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/smokescreen/blowingsmoke.shtml
Expose of industry "prevention" programs.

Critique of MTV Europe: "Youth Smoking Prevention" Campaign, sponsored by BAT, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco International - http://old.ash.org.uk/html/advspo/html/mtveurope.html
Independent critique of a tobacco industry advertising campaign on MTV Europe concludes it was a PR gesture intended to have no effect on youth smoking.

Industry "Youth Programs" Help Avoid Regulation - http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddindyyouthprograms.html
Presents and analyzes industry document that shows that one purpose of the industry's "youth programs" is to fend off regulation.

More Smoke and Mirrors - http://www.oma.org/phealth/smokeandmirrors.htm
Report by the Ontario Medical Association concludes that tobacco industry sponsored youth programs don't work, identifies the reasons the industry runs the programs, and outlines how these programs actually make smoking attractive to teens.

Nursing World: Letter to Philip Morris - http://nursingworld.org/pressrel/1999/ltr1029.htm
American Nurses Association open letter explains their stand, and details why they doubt PM's "youth smoking prevention" campaign is anything but a public relations gesture.

PR in the Playground - http://old.ash.org.uk/html/advspo/html/playground.html
ASH-UK report on the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs.

Tobacco Industry Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids Smoke - http://preventdisease.com/news/articles/anti-smoking_kids.shtml
Research finds that tobacco industry youth smoking ad may actually make teens want to smoke more.y.

Tobacco Industry Waged False Battle Against Youth Smoking - http://www.no-smoking.org/august98/08-26-98-3.html
Article from the Saint Paul Pioneer Press regarding the tobacco industry's high-profile efforts to keep kids from smoking while secretly, yet actively, opposing numerous federal, state and local efforts to combat underage smoking.

Tobacco Industry Youth Programs Alert - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/docs/na-docs/aa990805.shtml
Warns of industry "youth smoking" programs, and analyzes their design, funding, and purposes.

Tobacco Industry Youth Programs Are Smokescreen - http://www.ucsfhealth.org/childrens/health_library/news/2002/05/9748.html
The tobacco industry's own documents show that most youth smoking provention programs it has supported are designed to promote industry political and marketing aims, rather than reduce smoking, according to researchers who analyzed nearly 500 industry documents.

Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control - http://www.kstask.org/pdf/LandmanYSP.pdf
Scientific report analyses the design and use of 14 different tobacco industry youth smoking prevention programs, and concludes they're PR programs that protect industry profits, not kids.

Tobacco's Youth Anti-smoking Programs Promote the Industry - http://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2002/05/27/daily28.html
The tobacco industry's own documents show that most youth smoking prevention programs it has supported are designed to promote tobacco industry political and marketing aims rather than to reduce smoking.

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