Teen Smoking
Teen Smoking
Teen Smoking Links
- 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.
- Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools Information resource list.
- FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
- Youth Media Network Number of topics on tobacco and smoking, with focus on youth issues.
- The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
- Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, engaging youth in tobacco control activities, and more.
- 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.
- YPH Home Page Information and news on a variety of health topics for youths, including tobacco.
- 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.
- Look Who's Smoking Now - The Daily Apple While the prevalence of smoking among adults is decreasing, a new, steady stream of smokers is becoming addicted: children.
- Youth and Tobacco Short report from the World Health Organization.
- Youth and Tobacco Facts Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
- MTSU to Study Teen Smoking Article from the Nashville Tennessean on three-year project to educate minority teens about advertising strategies of the tobacco industry.
- Teen Smokers Ignore Health Risks An article by BUPA written by their medical team.
- OncoLink: Changes in the Cigarette Brand Preferences of Adolescent Smokers -- United States, 1989-1993 Survey completed in 1994. Which brands of cigarettes are smoked most by kids.
- What is Causing the Rise in Teen Smoking? "Why is teenage smoking on the increase? Peer pressure is not new, Camel is not the brand most kids smoke...so then what? Perhaps it's..." This article was published in a textbook on teen smoking issues.
- Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic From Consumer Reports.
- Internet Cigarette Sellers Smoked in Sting Three Internet companies were cited by Michigan Attorney General Jennifer Granholm for allegedly selling cigarettes to minors
- Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking Longitudinal research finds that kids who reconized tobacco advertising or owned a tobacco promotional item (T-shirt, cap, etc.) were more likely to try smoking, when followed up 3 years later.
- Young Smokers More Likely to Suffer Depression Medical Post article summarizes recent research.
- The Tobacco Industry and Youth Smoking Report submitted to the Canadian government by the Non-Smoker's Rights Association of Canada covers the economics, trends, and promotion of youth smoking.
- Tobacco and Kids: The Facts Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
- Smoking Use Among Teens Report by a teen on causes, prevalence, and effects of teen smoking.
- Kids Addicted in a Puff It can take kids just a month -- not two years, as previously thought -- to become addicted to cigarettes, recent research finds.
- Seducing the Young Commentary on tobacco industry marketing to kids; cites numerous internal industry documents.
- 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 accounts for nearly two thirds of teen smoking.
- Anti-smoking educational video for grades 7-12 An acclaimed anti-smoking educational video, for 7th-12th grade. Patrick Reynolds, a grandson of RJ Reynolds, motivates and empowers students to resist tobacco advertising and peer pressure.
- tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
- Smoking Among America's Youth Factsheets and links; references cited.
- Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
- R. J. Reynolds Documents on Youth In its internal memos, RJR discusses the important "14-24 age group"; in public, it says very different things; this article explains.
- Parenting of Adolescents What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
- Memo Says Philip Morris Worried About Teen Smoking Decline News article discusses a 1981 tobacco industry memo in which tobacco executives worried that the declining number of teen smokers would lower cigarette sales.
- Blowing Smoke Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
- Hooked On Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic GASP of Colorado Education Center; reprinted from Consumer Reports. Why teens smoke: ad dollars and teen smokers; other factors.
- Teen Smoking Cessation Program The Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati's Teen Smoking Cessation Program is free and open to people age 12 to 21.
- Youth Smoking - A Burning issue Report from a symposium held July 1999. Summary of findings, paper presentations, talks; recommendations.
- Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
- 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.
- Teenagers and the Tobacco Industry's Marketing Practices Article in the newsletter of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
- Speakers Kit: Teens and Tobacco Slides ready for presentation on tobacco myths and facts, tobacco advertising and promotion, immediate effects of tobacco, rewards of quitting.
- Young People and Smoking Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.
- Tobacco Industry Cynicism Shown What's behind tobacco industry "partnerships" to "fight youth smoking"? Industry internal memos have the answer. "To head off further regulation, paint industry foes as extremists and foster good will by appearing to care."
- Tobacco Industry Waged False Battle Against Youth Smoking Article from the Saint Paul Pioneer Press regarding the tobacco industry's high-profile efforts to keep kids from smoking while secretly, yet actively, opposing numerous federal, state and local efforts to combat underage smoking.
- Smoking and Youth Transcript of radio program reporting on teen smoking.
- Kids and Tobacco Advertising Brief AMA factsheet on tobacco advertising and kids.
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