Web Directory

» ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
   Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
   http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922

» Addicting Kids to Nicotine
   Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
   http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html

» 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.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10203280?dopt=Abstract

» Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advocate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson)
   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.
   http://www.tobaccofree.org/

» Educational Support Materials on Cancer
   Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
   http://extension.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/

» Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores
   Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm

» Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools
   Information resource list.
   http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm

» Health News: Teen Smokers
   Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
   http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers

» Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic
   From Consumer Reports.
   http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115

» 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.
   http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html

» MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth
   Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html

» 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
   http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html

» Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths
   Study presents national estimates of the proportion of youths in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences.
   http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331

» Slugfest in the Smoke Ring
   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.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm

» 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.
   http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm

» Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People
   5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm

» Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
   Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
   http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html

» 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 Carol
   http://stepupnc.com/

» Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes
   Time magazine article on bidis.
   http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html

» Teens Against Smoking in Kansas
   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.
   http://www.kstask.org/

» The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking
   36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
   http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html

» 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.
   http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm

» Tobacco and Kids: The Facts
   Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
   http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm

» Young People and Smoking
   Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.
   http://newash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_108.pdf

» Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage
   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.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/background_briefings/smoking/313203.stm

» Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion
   Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm

» Youth and Tobacco Facts
   Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
   http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202

» tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids
   Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids before and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
   http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/