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Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools
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Information resource list.
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Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes
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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.
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FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker
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Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
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Young People and Smoking
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Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.
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The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease
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Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
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Teens Against Smoking in Kansas
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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.
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Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet
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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.
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Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth
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Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
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Slugfest in the Smoke Ring
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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.
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StepUpNC.com
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A place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. Teens can come here to learn more about the perils of smoking, to find out how to quit, to become an activist, or just to see what other teens around North Carolina are doing about tobacco prevention and control.
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In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered
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PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.
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Blowing Smoke
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Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
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tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids
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Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
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Tobacco and Kids: The Facts
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Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
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Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion
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Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
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Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
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Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
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Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People
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5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
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Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage
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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.
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Study Shows Philip Morris's Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids More Likely to Smoke
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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.
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Addicting Kids to Nicotine
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Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
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Alaska Native Health Board: Challenge to Quit
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A unique smoking cessation research project for Alaskan teenagers.
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Educational Support Materials on Cancer
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Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
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Health News: Teen Smokers
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Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
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Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage
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Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.
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Youth Smoking - A Burning issue
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Report from a symposium held July 1999. Summary of findings, paper presentations, talks; recommendations.
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Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes
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Time magazine article on bidis.
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Parenting of Adolescents
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What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
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The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking
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36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
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Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores
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Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
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Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing
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CNN report on a study that found that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think.
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ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
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Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
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Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths
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Study presents national estimates of the proportion of yotuhs in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences.
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Cigarette Smoking Among Philippine Teens is High
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Reports on survey of 3000 students. Topics include peer influence, role of advertising, and lack of government support for an anti-smoking campaign.
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Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic
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From Consumer Reports.
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MEDLINEplus: Smoking and Youth
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Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Youth and Tobacco Facts
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Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
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In the Mix: Smoking: The truth unfiltered
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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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Tobacco Explained: 3. Marketing to children
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ASH UK Paper. Heavily documented with quotes from the industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to kids.
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In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered
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PBS show shows smoking damage to your health right now and in the near future, not just 40 years down the line.
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Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth
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Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal memos, reports on how the industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
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