Organizations

Organizations Links

• Youth Against Tobacco Aims to "understand the lies that the tobacco industry are telling", provides a sports focus, and seeks to empower youth with information.
  
• New Jersey REBEL Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies. "We are telling Big Tobacco, we're not for sale".
  
• SPLAT! Students Protesting Lies About Tobacco! Youth tobacco education and activism organization based in Thurston County, Washington.
  
• WHO: Tobacco Use by Children WHO factsheet. Tobacco has been called "a pediatric disease" because almost all smokers start smoking, and become addicted to nicotine, while children. A rundown by WHO on how the tobacco industry views young smokers, how tobacco affects children both firsthand and secondhand, and why kids smoke: to be like adults.
  
• FDA - Children and Tobacco Children and Tobacco: The Food and Drug Administration finds that nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco is a drug. and that these products are drug delivery devices.
  
• Nicotine Free Kids Online web community for teenagers including information on smoking and tobacco. Sponsored by PICS, Inc., and features ads of their quit-smoking products.
  
• ANR: Youth and Tobacco Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights info on youth and tobacco; clean indoor air as a youth protection strategy; tobacco industry "prevention" programs; and research on effectiveness of restricting youth access to tobacco.
  
• youthtobacco.com Tobacco intervention and cessation programs for youth.
  
• ODAIS (Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies) Conducts prevention and cessation research, predominantly with youth. Developed and researched the ALA's new smoking cessation program for youth, Not On Tobacco.
  
• STAT: Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco STAT is a national organization founded in 1985. "Our mission is to end childhood and teenage addiction to tobacco. We believe this goal can be achieved through making youth full partners in our tobacco prevention and awareness efforts."
  
• National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids Tries to protect children from tobacco addiction by raising awareness about tobacco use.
  
• PartnerSWAT Many resources for the SWAT organization. "Our cause is to help teenagers realize that tobacco companies are targeting teens and we are fighting them."
  
• Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco (C.O.S.T.) "Tobacco companies are preying upon children. The tobacco industry spends millions of dollars every day hoping to lure kids into the deadly habit of smoking. Learn how to fight back."