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.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld3.html
Youth and Tobacco Facts - Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. - http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202
MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html
Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths - 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. - http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331
ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide - Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. - http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922
The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking - 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject. - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html
Parenting of Adolescents - What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects. - http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm
Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes - Time magazine article on bidis. - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.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. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract
Health News: Teen Smokers - Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard. - http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers
Educational Support Materials on Cancer - Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format. - http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/
Addicting Kids to Nicotine - Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain. - http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html
Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People - 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes. - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm
Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype - Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry. - http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html
Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion - Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities. - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm
Tobacco and Kids: The Facts - Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids. - http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.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. - http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu
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. - http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html
StepUpNC.com - 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 Caro - http://stepupnc.com
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. - http://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. - http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm
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. - http://www.kstask.org
Young People and Smoking - Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. - http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html
FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker - Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids. - http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.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 - http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html