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Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools
Information resource list.

Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate 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.

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.

FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker
Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.

Young People and Smoking
Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.

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.

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) were more likely to try smoking, when followed up 3 years later.

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.

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.

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: Child Health
Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco: Effects: By Source of Exposure: Secondhand Smoke: Effects on Children
Health: Teen Health
Society: People: Generations and Age Groups: Youth: Health





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