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.
In the Mix: Smoking: The truth unfiltered - 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".
Entertaining Educational Programs on Substance Abuse Tobacco Prevention - Programs for K thru College. One of the shows "Up In Smoke" was picked by the Massachusetts board of Health to tour schools in the state 5 years ago. The show is no boring lecture: it uses theatre skits, mime, circus arts, comedy, rap and rock and roll music.
The Smoky Reality - "No, we're not a big organization who makes and airs cool commericials, or even a government-funded website targeted at teens. We are teens, we are doing something about what we believe in, and this is our story."
Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths - Complete 300 page book online. Covers: addiction, social norms and the acceptability of tobacco use, prevention policy, tobacco advertising and promotion, research results on prevention and cessation of tobacco use, and more.
Tobacco Education using Theatre, Mime - Group that presents programs for K thru 12. Shows use theater skits, mime, circus arts, comedy, and music; this is no lecture. Main theme is choices.
Students Working Against Tobacco - SWAT is dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions.
Full Court Press - A Tucson, Arizona program dedicated to reducing teen tobacco use.
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.
What to Say to Your Child When You Still Smoke - One person's advice on how to tell your child not to smoke when you have been unable to quit yourself.
Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion - Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing.
Blowing Smoke - Tobacco Industry Youth Prevention Ad Campaigns - Expose of industry "prevention" programs.
The Truth About Tobacco - Motivational speaker Patrick Reynolds, grandson of R.J. Reynold's Co. founder, speaks out against teen smoking and teen substance abuse through assembly programs on his anti-tobacco campaign.
South Dakota Tobacco Free Network - "Every year, tobacco companies spend more than $16 million in South Dakota to entice children to smoke." The Network aims to counter these efforts.
Healthy Mississippi - "Tobacco killed my uncle and my father. I don't want anyone to go through what my family has gone through. Just saying `Don't smoke' isn't enough. It's like telling a 16 year old not to drive 80 mph... I think showing others how the tobacco industry lies and manipulates will make them pay attention."
Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco - Abstracts from presentations at a health conference.
Industry "Youth Programs" Help Avoid Regulation - Presents and analyzes industry document that shows that one purpose of the industry's "youth programs" is to fend off regulation.
Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches - Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use.
Project: Why? - Teen Tobacco Prevention Project that challenges youth to take a stronger stance against tobacco use.
Lungs Are For Life - Ontario Lung Association's smoking prevention program for students from kindergarten through Grade 12.
Death Playing Cards - Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens.
Smoking Prevention - Effects of smoking cigarettes. Reasons not to smoke. Put together by high school students.
Teenage Smoking and its Effects - Effects of teen smoking, addiction, and costs.
Teen Tobacco Use - An Ohio State University Extension fact sheet.
Outrage Avenue - Innovative program for teens uses "reality TV" approach.
Does Philip Morris Want to Stop Kids' Smoking? - ACSH editorial looks at teen smoking activities of Philip Morris.
Tips4Youth - CDC site features tobacco tip sheets, videos, interviews with Christy Turlington and Boyz II Men, and information to help young people be more aware of the power and pervasiveness of cigarette advertising and to help them resist the influences of the tobacco industry.
Does Parental Smoking Cessation Discourage Adolescent Smoking? - Paper concludes that getting parents to quit may be an effective method for reducing adolescent smoking. The earlier parents quit, the less likely their children will become smokers.
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.
Pitfalls of Criminalizing Youth Possession of TObacco - Policy analysis draws on experience of several states and communities to show why most tobacco control advocates are skeptical of criminalizing kid smoking.
Behind the Smokescreen: The Tobacco Industry's Youth Anti-Tobacco Programs - Report from the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids says Philip Morris's anti-youth-smoking ad campaign is "another in a long line of efforts by the tobacco companies to make it appear as though they are seriously addressing the problem of youth smoking, designed more to relieve political pressure on the industry than actually to discourage tobacco use by kids."
B-FREE from Tobacco - Wisconsin's youth anti-smoking effort. Site includes anti-tobacco web pages designed by teens and counter-advertising.
Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board - Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris.
Target Market - Minnesota project shows "how tobacco executives have been targeting youth"; tobacco industry documents, discussion, information, news, events, and creative resistance.
Tobacco Industry "Prevention" Programs - ANR expose of industry "youth smoking prevention" programs.
Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth - Organization at The George Washington University.
An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign - Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program.
Tobacco Industry Youth Programs Alert - Warns of industry "youth smoking" programs, and analyzes their design, funding, and purposes.
Critique of MTV Europe: "Youth Smoking Prevention" Campaign, sponsored by BAT, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco International - Independent critique of a tobacco industry advertising campaign on MTV Europe concludes it was a PR gesture intended to have no effect on youth smoking.
PR in the Playground: Tobacco Industry Initiatives on Youth Smoking - ASH-UK expose of the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs (report summary).
PR in the Playground - ASH-UK report on the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs (full report).
Philip Morris's - Newspaper article; health organizations doubt that Phlip Morris's "kids shouldn't smoke" ad campaign is on the level.
Osceola SWAT - Teen led program working aginst tobacco in Osceola, Florida. Summary of the program, contact links and pictures.
Antismoking Campaign has Philip Morris Fuming - Philip Morris opposes a tough antismoking campaign that was designed with input from teens.
Teens Help Anti-smoking Campaign - Report on how teens helped shape the largest anti-smoikng campaign ever run in the U.S.
Big Tobacco's "Deathbed Conversion" Not Convincing - Editorial is skeptical about the purpose of the tobacco industry's "teen smoking prevention" campaign.