Knowledge: teen smoking
See Also:
- health → child health
- health → specific substances → tobacco → effects → by source of exposure → secondhand smoke → effects on children
- health → teen health
- society → people → generations and age groups → youth → health
Links
- Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools
http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm - Information resource list.
- Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson)
http://www.tobaccofree.org/ - 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. Founded by Patrick Reynolds.
- Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html - 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.
- FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.html - Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
- Young People and Smoking
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html - Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.
- The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease
http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm - Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
- Teens Against Smoking in Kansas
http://www.kstask.org - 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.
- Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet
http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm - 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.
- Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld3.html - Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
- Slugfest in the Smoke Ring
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm - 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.
- StepUpNC.com
http://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 Carolina are doing about tobacco prevention and control.
- In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html - PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.
- Blowing Smoke
http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu - Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
- tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/ - Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
- Tobacco and Kids: The Facts
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm - Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
- Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm - Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
- Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html - Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
- Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm - 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
- Addicting Kids to Nicotine
http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html - Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
- Educational Support Materials on Cancer
http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/ - Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
- Health News: Teen Smokers
http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers - Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
- Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&... - Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.
- Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html - Time magazine article on bidis.
- Parenting of Adolescents
http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm - What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html - 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
- Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm - Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
- Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/kids.tobacco.addiction/ - CNN report on a study that found that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think.
- ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922 - Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
- Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331 - 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.
- Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic
http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115 - From Consumer Reports.
- MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Youth and Tobacco Facts
http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202 - Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
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