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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. |
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MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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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Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/background_briefings/smoking/313203.stm
Tobacco products cause more lung cancer to smokers who start young, recent research finds; scientists think it may relate to the impact of smoking at an age when the lungs are still developing. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract
Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |
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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. |