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| Web Pages |
| 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." |
| 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, and research results on prevention and cessation of tobacco use. |
| Shows4allages |
| Group that presents programs on making healthy choices. |
| 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. |
| Smoke Free Leicester |
| An anti-smoking site for young people with advice and information for a smoke free life. |
| Minnesota Youth Tobacco Prevention Initiative |
| Mission is to empower youth to be tobacco free by creating a statewide social environment where tobacco use is undesirable, unacceptable, and inaccessible to young people. |
| WhyQuit.Com |
| Graphic material shows effects of tobacco products on the human body; text explains how smokers can and do die young. |
| 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. |
| Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion |
| Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing. |
| Blowing Smoke - Tobacco Industry Youth Prevention Ad Campaigns |
| Expose of industry "prevention" programs. |
| 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. |
| Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco |
| Abstracts from presentations at a health conference. |
| 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. |
| Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches |
| Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use. |
| Lungs Are For Life |
| Ontario Lung Association's smoking prevention program for students from kindergarten through Grade 12. |
| Tobacco Facts |
| Designed by teens for teens, provides facts on: what's in a cigarette, smoking rates by youth, nicotine addiction, illegal sales of tobacco to youth, tobacco advertising aimed at youth, and what the tobacco industry really says. |
| GottaQuit.com |
| Quitting site for teens features online help, a personal quit calendar, instant-message chat, games and information. |
| They're Rich, You're Dead |
| University of Miami School of Medicine's Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth. "We want you to see what we see in our hospital patients every day from the use of tobacco". |
| Death Playing Cards |
| Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens. |
| Smoking Prevention |
| Effects of smoking cigarettes. Reasons not to smoke. Put together by high school students. |
| Teenage Smoking and its Effects |
| Effects of teen smoking, addiction, and costs. |
| Teen Tobacco Use |
| An Ohio State University Extension fact sheet. |
| Outrage Avenue |
| Innovative program for teens uses "reality TV" approach. |
| Tips4Youth |
| CDC site features tobacco tip sheets, videos, interviews with Christy Turlington and Boyz II Men, and information to help young people be more aware of the power and pervasiveness of cigarette advertising and to help them resist the influences of the tobacco industry. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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." |
| B-FREE from Tobacco |
| Wisconsin's youth anti-smoking effort. Site includes anti-tobacco web pages designed by teens and counter-advertising. |
| Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board |
| Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris. |
| Target Market |
| Minnesota project shows "how tobacco executives have been targeting youth"; tobacco industry documents, discussion, information, news, events, and creative resistance. |
| Tobacco Industry "Prevention" Programs |
| ANR expose of industry "youth smoking prevention" programs. |
| An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign |
| Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program. |
| Tobacco Industry Youth Programs Alert |
| Warns of industry "youth smoking" programs, and analyzes their design, funding, and purposes. |
| Critique of MTV Europe: "Youth Smoking Prevention" Campaign, sponsored by BAT, Philip Morris and Japan Tobacco International |
| Independent critique of a tobacco industry advertising campaign on MTV Europe concludes it was a PR gesture intended to have no effect on youth smoking. |
| Philip Morris Anti-Smoking Ads Fail to Work |
| Study examines 9000 people exposed to anti-smoking ads, finds that the Philip Morris "Think, Don't Smoke" ads are ineffective. |
| SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness |
| Survivors and Victims of Tobacco Empowerment trains survivors of tobacco-related illness to speak with children and teens in schools and community groups about what tobacco products do to their customers. |
| PR in the Playground: Tobacco Industry Initiatives on Youth Smoking |
| ASH-UK expose of the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs (report summary). |
| PR in the Playground |
| ASH-UK report on the tobacco industry's "youth smoking prevention" programs (full report). |
| ScienceU: Cigarette Advertising and Children |
| Science-based curriculum examines why advertisers spend money on advertising in general, and why tobacco companies spend money on advertising in particular. |
| Teens Help Anti-smoking Campaign |
| Report on how teens helped shape the largest anti-smoikng campaign ever run in the U.S. |
| 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". |
| The Badvertising Institute -- Real life projects |
| Suggestions for real-life class projects from the Badvertising Institute: a tobacco tour through town, a tobacco behavior audit, tobacco marketing research, getting on the tobacco industry's mailing lists. |
| Improving the Odds: Educator's Resource |
| Health Canada's Tobacco Control Programme regulates tobacco and promotes initiatives that reduce or prevent the harm associated with smoking; here it provides educational materials and health resources for prevention. |
| Piggy Anti-tobacco Youth Education |
| MTV reality show host available to speak at schools about tobacco. |
| Antismoking Campaign has Philip Morris Fuming |
| Philip Morris opposes a tough antismoking campaign that was designed with input from teens. |
| Realities of Smoking |
| Online educational presentation that helps to identify the causes and effects of smoking. |
| Getting to the Truth: Evaluating National Tobacco Countermarketing Campaigns |
| Survey of several thousand teens finds that the "truth" campaign effectively changed attitudes towards smoking but the Philip Morris campaign had a counterproductive effect. |
| Rebels 2080: The Battle for a Tobacco-Free Future |
| Tobacco activism for teens; shockwave and non-shockwave site. |
| Smoking Up a Storm |
| Online course in the history of tobacco and the tobacco industry. |
| Choice of a Lifetime: Should I smoke? |
| 33-minute video biology lesson on the effects of smoking on the body. Designed for middle/high school classes. Comes with a teacher's syllabus and lesson plan. |
| Smoke Screeners |
| Program for middle or early high school lets students review smoking content and messages in movies and TV, becoming more media literate in the process and learning how onscreen smoking glamorizes cigarettes. |
| outh In CHARGe! |
| Georgia's youth-led tobacco use prevention program strives to create tobacco-free generations by changing peer pressure and additudes towards tobacco, reducing exposure to secondhand smoke, and fighting tobacco industry tactics. |
| Don't Buy The Lie |
| Tobacco education curriculum is an interactive tobacco education program. Designed for students in grades 6-8, free, complete, with teacher resources. |
| Tobacco Company's Whines of Protest Prove "Truth" Campaign To Curb Teen Smoking Is Working |
| American Lung Association denounces Lorillard for threatinging to sue the "truth" anti-tobacco campaign, and says Lorillard is afraid of the truth. |
| UNFILTEREDTV.com |
| UnfilteredTV.com is a Web site about tobacco designed specifically for teens. Log on, speak out and spread the truth about the effects of tobacco use. |
| Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth |
| Organization at The George Washington University. |
| Healthy Mississippi |
| Committed to teaching Mississippi’s youth about the dangers of tobacco use. |
| Osceola SWAT |
| Teen led program working aginst tobacco in Osceola, Florida. Summary of the program, contact links and pictures. |
| StepUPNC |
| Place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. |
| Smoking Got Me, The Story of Brandon Carmichael |
| Tobacco products gave Brandon Carmichael a disease that cost him his leg at age 19; he now shares his story with school groups. |
| Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6 |
| This lesson for students in grades 4-6 addresses how tobacco marketing exploits the needs, wishes and desires of various target audiences and creates a false image of the effects of smoking. |
| You Are The Target |
| Book, curriculum, and test project with peer mentors exposes tobacco industry practices. |
| Guymon SWAT |
| Students Working Against Tobacco in Guymon, protecting teens from the lie and deceit of big tobacco companies! |
| Crazyworld |
| Dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions. Requires flash plugin. |
| Students Working Against Tobacco |
| Florida Students Working Against Tobacco. Online message board. |
| Youth Smoking Prevention/Stay in School Program |
| The R.E.W.A.R.D.S. Program is a youth smoking prevention and stay-in-school program in Canada based on the use of financial incentives to motivate positive choices. |