Prevention

Prevention Links

• 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".
  
• 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.
  
  
• Antismoking Campaign has Philip Morris Fuming Philip Morris opposes a tough antismoking campaign that was designed with input from teens.
  
• SOUL: Saving Ourselves from Unfiltered Lies By youth, for youth. "We are youth united to save generations from the lies and manipulation of the tobacco industry."
  
• Project: Why? Teen Tobacco Prevention Project that challenges youth to take a stronger stance against tobacco use.
  
• 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.
  
• Tobacco Industry "Prevention" Programs ANR expose of industry "youth smoking prevention" programs.
  
• B-FREE from Tobacco Wisconsin's youth anti-smoking effort. Site includes anti-tobacco web pages designed by teens and counter-advertising.
  
• 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."
  
• The Whole Truth The Truth campaign in Florida, designed by teens for teens, is a very different experience; no lectures here.
  
• Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use.
  
• PR in the Playground ASH-UK report on the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs (full report).
  
• 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.
  
• An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program.
  
• Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris.
  
• Students Working Against Tobacco SWAT is dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions.
  
• 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.
  
• Teen Tobacco Use An Ohio State University Extension fact sheet.
  
• Big Tobacco's "Deathbed Conversion" Not Convincing Editorial is skeptical about the purpose of the tobacco industry's "teen smoking prevention" campaign.
  
• 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.
  
• 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."
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Does Philip Morris Want to Stop Kids' Smoking? ACSH editorial looks at teen smoking activities of Philip Morris.
  
• 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.
  
• Blowing Smoke - Tobacco Industry Youth Prevention Ad Campaigns Expose of industry "prevention" programs.
  
• PR in the Playground: Tobacco Industry Initiatives on Youth Smoking ASH-UK expose of the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs (report summary).
  
• Philip Morris's Newspaper article; health organizations doubt that Phlip Morris's "kids shouldn't smoke" ad campaign is on the level.
  
• 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.
  
• Smoking Prevention Effects of smoking cigarettes. Reasons not to smoke. Put together by high school students.
  
• Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth Organization at The George Washington University.
  
• Smoke and Mirrors: Tobacco Industry Ads Essay from Feed Magazine explores the aims of tobacco industry ads, both those that celebrate the industry's charitable giving, and industry 'anti-youth-smoking' ads.
  
• Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing.
  
• Teens Help Anti-smoking Campaign Report on how teens helped shape the largest anti-smoikng campaign ever run in the U.S.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• Target Market Minnesota project shows "how tobacco executives have been targeting youth"; tobacco industry documents, discussion, information, news, events, and creative resistance.
  
• Tobacco Information Informational site by students on tobacco and tobacco awareness.
  
• Tobacco Industry Youth Programs Alert Warns of industry "youth smoking" programs, and analyzes their design, funding, and purposes.
  
• Death Playing Cards Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens.
  
• Full Court Press A Tucson, Arizona program dedicated to reducing teen tobacco use.
  
• 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.
  
• Philip Morris Launches Campaign that Promotes Industry Image State health department press release takes a hard look at tobacco giant Philip Morris's "Think, Don't Smoke" ad campaign.
  
• 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.