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Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools  - http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm  Information resource list.  Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson)  - http://www.tobaccofree.org/  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  - 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.  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.  Young People and Smoking  - http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html  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  - http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm  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  - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&uid=9480360&Dopt=r  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  - http://www.kstask.org  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  - 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.  Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth  - http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld3.html  Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.  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.  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.  In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered  - http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html  PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.  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.  tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids  - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/  Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.  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.  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.  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.  Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People  - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm  5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.  Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage  - http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_313000/313203.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.  Study Shows Philip Morris's Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids More Likely to Smoke  - http://www.apha.org/news/press/2002/truth.htm  Recent research shows that Philip Morris's "Think, Don't Smoke" ads make kids more likely to smoke, while anti-smoking ads designed by health groups decrease smoking.  Addicting Kids to Nicotine  - http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html  Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.  Alaska Native Health Board: Challenge to Quit  - http://www.anhb.org/sub/CTQ/ctqhome.htm  A unique smoking cessation research project for Alaskan teenagers.  Educational Support Materials on Cancer  - http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/  Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.  Health News: Teen Smokers  - http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers  Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.  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.  Youth Smoking - A Burning issue  - http://www.nzdf.org.nz/Symposium1.html  Report from a symposium held July 1999. Summary of findings, paper presentations, talks; recommendations.  Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes  - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html  Time magazine article on bidis.  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.  The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking  - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html  36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.  Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores  - http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm  Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.  Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing  - http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/kids.tobacco.addiction/  CNN report on a study that found that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think.  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.  Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths  - http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331  Study presents national estimates of the proportion of yotuhs in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences.  Cigarette Smoking Among Philippine Teens is High  - http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/features/f2001_0817_04.htm  Reports on survey of 3000 students. Topics include peer influence, role of advertising, and lack of government support for an anti-smoking campaign.  Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic  - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115  From Consumer Reports.  MEDLINEplus: Smoking and Youth  - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html  Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.  Youth and Tobacco Facts  - http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202  Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.