Teen Smoking
Addicting Kids to Nicotine
Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
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.
Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson)
Anti-smoking group offers youth a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources. Foun…
Blowing Smoke
Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
Cigarette Smoking Among Philippine Teens is High
Reports on survey of 3000 students. Topics include peer influence, role of advertising, and lack of government support for an anti-smoking campaign.
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.
Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores
Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker
Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
Health News: Teen Smokers
Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
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.
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…
Parenting of Adolescents
What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
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.
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…
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 adver…
Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People
5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
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