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- Addicting Kids to Nicotine - Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html
- ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide - Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
www.advancefornurses.com/pastarticles/feb4_02cover.html
- Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage - Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract
- Anti-smoking educational video for grades 7-12 - An acclaimed anti-smoking educational video, for 7th-12th grade. Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of RJ Reynolds, motivates and empowers students to resist tobacco advertising and peer pressure.
www.tobaccofree.org/video.htm
- Blowing Smoke - Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu
- FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker - Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.html
- Finding The Power: A Tobacco Advocacy Guide for Asian, Pacific Islander, Hispanic and Latino Youth - Smoking quiz, factsheest, advocacy guides, fighting back, peer education, resources and references for fighting tobacco in neighborhoods and communities.
www.kcet.org/findthepower
- FoolsDie.com - Individual site gets graphic about the effects of smoking.
www.foolsdie.com
- Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools - Information resource list.
www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm
- Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - From Consumer Reports.
gasp.somedec.com/edu/old/consumer_reports_teen_epidemic.html
- Hooked On Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - GASP of Colorado Education Center; reprinted from Consumer Reports. Why teens smoke: ad dollars and teen smokers; other factors.
www.gaspforair.org/gedc/gedcteen.htm
- In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered - PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.
www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html
- Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes - Just three cigarette brands account for nearly all teen smoking: Marlboro (Philip Morris), Newport (Lorillard), and Camel (RJ Reynolds). These are among the most heavily advertised and promoted cigarette brands, in particular Marlboro, and Marlboro alone accounts for nearly two thirds of teen smoking.
monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html
- Ottawa Kicks Butt - Find out about the effects of cigarettes on your life and the lives of your family and friends. Learn about manipulation by tobacco companies, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, and tips for quitting.
www.smokefreeottawa.com/youth
- Parenting of Adolescents - What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm
- R. J. Reynolds Documents on Youth - In its internal memos, RJR discusses the important "14-24 age group"; in public, it says very different things; this article explains.
www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/14yrolds.html
- Seducing the Young - Commentary on tobacco industry marketing to kids; cites numerous internal industry documents.
procor.org/procor-commentary-hma/msg00018.html
- Slugfest in the Smoke Ring - Washington Post article describes the approaches of the four major tobacco companies -- Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and Lorillard -- to get younger smokers, and explains why this is so important to the industry.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm
- Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet - Facts on tobacco use among children, nicotine and nicotine addiction in children, tobacco-caused disease, questions to ask candidates for public office, children and tobacco advertising.
www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm
- Smoking Among America's Youth - Factsheets and links; references cited.
pcr-inc.com/healthpsych/smoke.html
- Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People - 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm
- Smoking and Youth - Transcript of radio program reporting on teen smoking.
kidshealth.unm.edu/august.htm
- Smoking Sucks - Fighting for a smokefree Newfoundland and Labrador.
www.smokingsucks.nfld.net
- Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype - Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html
- Speakers Kit: Teens and Tobacco - Slides ready for presentation on tobacco myths and facts, tobacco advertising and promotion, immediate effects of tobacco, rewards of quitting.
speakerskit.chestnet.org/04/ppt_pages/grab_go/teens/teens_index.htm
- STATIC - Students Teaching Against Tobacco in Connecticut - STATIC is a means by which the young people of Connecticut may develop a coordinated, unified front against the manipulation and targeting by Big Tobacco.
www.ctstatic.org
- Study Shows Philip Morris's Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids More Likely to Smoke - Recent research shows that Philip Morris's "Think, Don't Smoke" ads make kids more likely to smoke, while anti-smoking ads designed by health groups decrease smoking.
www.apha.org/news/press/2002/truth.htm
- Teen Smoking Cessation Program - The Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati's Teen Smoking Cessation Program is free and open to people age 12 to 21.
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/programs_services/378
- Teens Against Smoking in Kansas - Kansas youth speaking out about big tobacco companies. Join with other teens in Kansas and help create one strong voice working to expose Big Tobacco's lies.
www.kstask.org
- Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing - A new study finds that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think.
www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/kids.tobacco.addiction
- The Tobacco Industry and Youth Smoking - Report submitted to the Canadian government by the Non-Smoker's Rights Association of Canada covers the economics, trends, and promotion of youth smoking.
www.nsra-adnf.ca/english/senatebrief.html
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking - 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html
- The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease - Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm
- Tobacco and Kids: The Facts - Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm
- Tobacco Industry Cynicism Shown - What's behind tobacco industry "partnerships" to "fight youth smoking"? Industry internal memos have the answer. "To head off further regulation, paint industry foes as extremists and foster good will by appearing to care."
www.kickbutt.org/news/scarchives/9907-july/990719.html
- Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking - Longitudinal research finds that kids who reconized tobacco advertising or owned a tobacco promotional item (T-shirt, cap) were more likely to try smoking, when followed up 3 years later.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&uid=9480360&Dopt=r
- Tobacco Industry Waged False Battle Against Youth Smoking - 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.
www.ahc.umn.edu/NewsAlert/Aug98/NewsAlert82798/7288.htm
- tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids - Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting
- Young People and Smoking - Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.
www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html
- Young Smokers More Likely to Suffer Depression - Medical Post article summarizes recent research.
www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p5m-dp04.html
- Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage - Tobacco products cause more lung cancer to smokers who start young, recent research finds; scientists think it may relate to the impact of smoking at an age when the lungs are still developing.
news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_313000/313203.stm
- Youth and Tobacco Facts - Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
www.no-smoke.org/youth1.html
- Youth Media Network - Number of topics on tobacco and smoking, with focus on youth issues.
www.ymn.org/site.overview.shtml
- Youth Smoking - A Burning issue - Report from a symposium held July 1999. Summary of findings, paper presentations, talks; recommendations.
www.nzdf.org.nz/Symposium1.html
- Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion - Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, engaging youth in tobacco control activities, and more.
apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm
- Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth - Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld3.html
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