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Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches

- Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use.
- http://ncadi.samhsa.gov/govpubs/PHD745/

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Don't Buy The Lie

- Tobacco education curriculum is an interactive tobacco education program. Designed for students in grades 6-8, free, complete, with teacher resources.
- http://www.tupeonline.com/index.html

Improving the Odds: Educator's Resource

- Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme regulates tobacco and promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm associated with smoking; here it provides educational materials and health resources for prevention.
- http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hl-vs/pubs/tobac-tabac/io-mi/index_e.html

The Badvertising Institute -- Real life projects

- Suggestions for real-life class projects from the Badvertising Institute: a tobacco tour through town, a tobacco behavior audit, tobacco marketing research, getting on the tobacco industry's mailing lists.
- http://www.badvertising.org/pages/02%20How%20To%20BADvertise/Projects-Activities-Papers/Real%20Life%20Projects.htm

It Is Time to Abandon Youth Access Tobacco Programs

- Research examines youth access programs and their results, and concludes they are ineffective or even counterproductive.
- http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/11/1/3

Smoking: Rage Against the Machine

- North Eastern Health Board, Ireland, offering information for teenagers and young adults helping them make healthy decisions around smoking.
- http://www.nehb.ie/youthhealthne/smoking%20rage.htm

The Truth

- Dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions. Requires flash plugin.
- http://www.thetruth.com/

Antismoking Campaign has Philip Morris Fuming

- Philip Morris opposes a tough antismoking campaign that was designed with input from teens.
- http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/021200/new_anti.html

Effect of Ending an Antitobacco Youth Campaign on Adolescent Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking --- Minnesota, 2002--2003

- Research measures the effect of cutting funding for Minnesota's youth antitobacco campaign, while at the same time the tobacco industry increased its protobacco spending.
- http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5314a1.htm

Arts Education

- Tobacco and drug prevention for schools. "Smoke Screen", mime, juggling, comedy, rap for school assemblies and keynotes.
- http://www.double-vision.com

Guymon SWAT

- Students Working Against Tobacco in Guymon, protecting teens from the lie and deceit of big tobacco companies!
- http://www.guymonswat.com/

You Are The Target

- Book, curriculum, and test project with peer mentors exposes tobacco industry practices.
- http://www.you-are-the-target.com/

Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6

- This lesson for students in grades 4-6 addresses how tobacco marketing exploits the needs, wishes and desires of various target audiences and creates a false image of the effects of smoking.
- http://www.media-awareness.ca/english/resources/educational/lessons/elementary/tobacco/think_like_tobacco_ele.cfm

Smoking Got Me, The Story of Brandon Carmichael

- Tobacco products gave Brandon Carmichael a disease that cost him his leg at age 19; he now shares his story with school groups.
- http://www.smokinggotme.com

StepUPNC

- Place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control.
- http://stepupnc.com/

Healthy Mississippi

- Committed to teaching Mississippi's youth about the dangers of tobacco use.
- http://www.healthy-miss.org

Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth

- Organization at The George Washington University.
- http://www.gwu.edu/~csfy/

Smoke Screeners

- Program for middle or early high school lets students review smoking content and messages in movies and TV, becoming more media literate in the process and learning how onscreen smoking glamorizes cigarettes.
- http://www.fablevision.com/smokescreeners/contents.html

ScienceU: Cigarette Advertising and Children

- Science-based curriculum examines why advertisers spend money on advertising in general, and why tobacco companies spend money on advertising in particular.
- http://scienceu.fsu.edu/content/adsmart/docs/adschildren.html

SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness

- Survivors and Victims of Tobacco Empowerment trains survivors of tobacco-related illness to speak with children and teens in schools and community groups about what tobacco products do to their customers.
- http://www.tobaccosurvivors.org/

Philip Morris Anti-Smoking Ads Fail to Work

- Study examines 9000 people exposed to anti-smoking ads, finds that the Philip Morris "Think, Don't Smoke" ads are ineffective.
- http://www.no-smoking.org/may02/05-31-02-3.html

An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign

- Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program.
- http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/aaaalert.html

Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board

- Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris.
- http://www.tobacco.org/News/990325ca4h.html

Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking

- Paper finds that higher cigarette prices and smokefree public places and workplaces are effective in reducing youth smoking; youth access restrictions have little effect.
- http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/Papers/nbrnberwo5740.html

Outrage Avenue

- Innovative program for teens uses "reality TV" approach.
- http://www.outrageavenue.com/

Death Playing Cards

- Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens.
- http://www.deathcards.com

They're Rich, You're Dead

- University of Miami School of Medicine's Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth. "We want you to see what we see in our hospital patients every day from the use of tobacco". Videos in MTV and science versions; interactive web-based CD-RO
- http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco

Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco

- Abstracts from presentations at a health conference.
- http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_4079.htm

Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion

- Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing.
- http://www.ftcc.fsu.edu/resreports/july99/index.html

Smoking: truth or dare

- Focus is on the consequences of smoking here and now, not maybe later. Here and now, smoking robs teens of their looks, nicotine addiction takes over their lives, and empties their wallets.
- http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0776581.html

WhyQuit.Com

- Graphic material shows effects of tobacco products on the human body; text explains how smokers can and do die young.
- http://whyquit.com/whyquit/

Smoke-Free Kids

- Smoke-Free Kids is a collaboration between the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Women's National Team, and US Soccer.
- http://www.smokefree.gov