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• Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco: Teen Smoking  (32)

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".

Arts Education - - Tobacco and drug prevention for schools. "Smoke Screen", mime, juggling, comedy, rap for school assemblies and keynotes.

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.

Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth - - Organization at The George Washington University.

Death Playing Cards - - Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens.

Effect of Ending an Antitobacco Youth Campaign on Adolescent Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking --- Minnesota, 2002--2003 - - Research measures the effect of cutting funding for Minnesota's youth antitobacco campaign, while at the same time the tobacco industry increased its protobacco spending.

An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign - - Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program.

Healthy Mississippi - - Committed to teaching Mississippi's youth about the dangers of tobacco use.

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.

It Is Time to Abandon Youth Access Tobacco Programs - - Research examines youth access programs and their results, and concludes they are ineffective or even counterproductive.

Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board - - Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris.

Osceola SWAT - - Teen led program working against tobacco in Osceola, Florida. Summary of the program, contact links and pictures.

Outrage Avenue - - Innovative program for teens uses "reality TV" approach.

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.

Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco - - Abstracts from presentations at a health conference.

Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches - - Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Smoking Prevention - - Effects of smoking cigarettes. Reasons not to smoke. Put together by high school students.

Smoking: Rage Against the Machine - - North Eastern Health Board, Ireland, offering information for teenagers and young adults helping them make healthy decisions around smoking.

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.

StepUPNC - - Place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control.

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". Videos in MTV and science versions; interactive web-based CD-ROM; student and teacher workbooks; images and presentations in Adobe and Powerpoint formats.

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.

The Truth - - Dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions. Requires flash plugin.

WhyQuit.Com - - Graphic material shows effects of tobacco products on the human body; text explains how smokers can and do die young.

Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion - - Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing.

Antismoking Campaign has Philip Morris Fuming - - Philip Morris opposes a tough antismoking campaign that was designed with input from teens. (February 13, 2000)