 Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html Time magazine article on bidis. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/background_briefings/smoking/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. |
 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. |
 Educational Support Materials on Cancer - http://extension.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 Canada - Tobacco and Schools - http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm Information resource list. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advocate 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. |
 tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids - http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/ Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids before and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998. |
 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 youths in each of 7 stages of smoking, and evaluates the effects of pro-smoking and anti-smoking influences. |
 Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115 From Consumer Reports. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Youth and Tobacco Facts - http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202 Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 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. |
 Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10203280?dopt=Abstract Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking. |
 MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. |
 Young People and Smoking - http://newash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_108.pdf Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. |