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 In the Mix: Smoking: The truth unfiltered [Recommended] Description: 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". (pbs.org) |
| An Embattled Philip Morris Launches Advocacy Advertising Campaign Description: Analysis of Philip Morris's "Action Against Access" program. (tobacco.org) |
| Antismoking Campaign has Philip Morris Fuming Description: Philip Morris opposes a tough antismoking campaign that was designed with input from teens. (hollandsentinel.com) |
| Arts Education Description: Tobacco and drug prevention for schools. "Smoke Screen", mime, juggling, comedy, rap for school assemblies and keynotes. (double-vision.com) |
| B-FREE from Tobacco Description: Wisconsin's youth anti-smoking effort. Site includes anti-tobacco web pages designed by teens and counter-advertising. (be-free.org) |
| Choice of a Lifetime: Should I smoke? Description: 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. (shouldismoke.org) |
| Coalition for a Smoke Free Youth Description: Organization at The George Washington University. (gwu.edu) |
| Death Playing Cards Description: Sells tobacco education playing cards designed for teens. (deathcards.com) |
| Don't Buy The Lie Description: Tobacco education curriculum is an interactive tobacco education program. Designed for students in grades 6-8, free, complete, with teacher resources. (tupeonline.com) |
| Effect of Ending an Antitobacco Youth Campaign on Adolescent Susceptibility to Cigarette Smoking --- Minnesota, 2002--2003 Description: 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. (cdc.gov) |
| Getting to the Truth: Evaluating National Tobacco Countermarketing Campaigns Description: Survey of several thousand teens finds that the "truth" campaign effectively changed attitudes towards smoking but the Philip Morris campaign had a counterproductive effect. (apha.org) |
| GottaQuit.com Description: Quitting site for teens features online help, a personal quit calendar, instant-message chat, games and information. (gottaquit.com) |
| Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths Description: 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. (nap.edu) |
| Guymon SWAT Description: Students Working Against Tobacco in Guymon, protecting teens from the lie and deceit of big tobacco companies! (guymonswat.com) |
| Healthy Mississippi Description: Committed to teaching Mississippi's youth about the dangers of tobacco use. (healthy-miss.org) |
| Improving the Odds: Educator's Resource Description: 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. (hc-sc.gc.ca) |
| It Is Time to Abandon Youth Acess Tobacco Programs Description: Research examines youth access programs and their results, and concludes they are ineffective or even counterproductive. (tc.bmjjournals.com) |
| Letter from the California 4-H Statewide Advisory Board Description: Expresses why California 4-H did not wish to "partner" with Philip Morris. (tobacco.org) |
| Lungs Are For Life Description: Ontario Lung Association's smoking prevention program for students from kindergarten through Grade 12. (on.lung.ca) |
| Osceola SWAT Description: Teen led program working aginst tobacco in Osceola, Florida. Summary of the program, contact links and pictures. (geocities.com) |
| Outrage Avenue Description: Innovative program for teens uses "reality TV" approach. (outrageavenue.com) |
| Philip Morris Anti-Smoking Ads Fail to Work Description: Study examines 9000 people exposed to anti-smoking ads, finds that the Philip Morris "Think, Don't Smoke" ads are ineffective. (no-smoking.org) |
| Prevention of Adolescent Use of Tobacco Description: Abstracts from presentations at a health conference. (apha.confex.com) |
| Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking Description: Paper finds that higher cigarette prices and smokefree public places and workplaces are effective in reducing youth smoking; youth access restrictions have little effect. (netec.mcc.ac.uk) |
| Realities of Smoking Description: Online educational presentation that helps to identify the causes and effects of smoking. (realitiesofsmoking.com) |
| Rebels 2080: The Battle for a Tobacco-Free Future Description: Tobacco activism for teens; shockwave and non-shockwave site. (rebels2080.com) |
| Reducing Tobacco Use Among Youth: Community-Based Approaches Description: Describes and evaluates community based approaches to reducing tobacco use. (health.org) |
| SAVE: Empowering Survivors of Tobacco Sickness Description: 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. (tobaccosurvivors.org) |
| ScienceU: Cigarette Advertising and Children Description: Science-based curriculum examines why advertisers spend money on advertising in general, and why tobacco companies spend money on advertising in particular. (scienceu.fsu.edu) |
| Smoke Free Leicester Description: An anti-smoking site for young people with advice and information for a smoke free life. (smokescreens.org.uk) |
| Smoke Screeners Description: 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. (fablevision.com) |
| Smoke-Free Kids Description: Smoke-Free Kids is a collaboration between the Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Women's National Team, and US Soccer. (smokefree.gov) |
| Smoking Got Me, The Story of Brandon Carmichael Description: Tobacco products gave Brandon Carmichael a disease that cost him his leg at age 19; he now shares his story with school groups. (smokinggotme.com) |
| Smoking Prevention Description: Effects of smoking cigarettes. Reasons not to smoke. Put together by high school students. (angelfire.com) |
| Smoking Up a Storm Description: Online course in the history of tobacco and the tobacco industry. (lang-plus.com) |
| Smoking: Rage Against the Machine Description: North Eastern Health Board, Ireland, offering information for teenagers and young adults helping them make healthy decisions around smoking. (nehb.ie) |
| Smoking: truth or dare Description: 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. (factmonster.com) |
| StepUPNC Description: Place for teens to come to learn more about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. (stepupnc.com) |
| Teen Tobacco Use Description: An Ohio State University Extension fact sheet. (ohioline.osu.edu) |
| Teenage Smoking and its Effects Description: Effects of teen smoking, addiction, and costs. (us.geocities.com) |
| Teens Help Anti-smoking Campaign Description: Report on how teens helped shape the largest anti-smoikng campaign ever run in the U.S. (cyc-net.org) |
| The Badvertising Institute -- Real life projects Description: 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. (badvertising.org) |
| The Smoky Reality Description: "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." (imaginaire.nu) |
| The Truth Description: Dedicated to defending teens from tobacco companies lies and deceptions. Requires flash plugin. (thetruth.com) |
| They're Rich, You're Dead Description: 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. (mededu.miami.edu) |
| Thinking Like a Tobacco Company: Grades 4-6 Description: 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. (media-awareness.ca) |
| Tobacco Company's Whines of Protest Prove "Truth" Campaign To Curb Teen Smoking Is Working Description: American Lung Association denounces Lorillard for threatinging to sue the "truth" anti-tobacco campaign, and says Lorillard is afraid of the truth. (lungusa.org) |
| WhyQuit.Com Description: Graphic material shows effects of tobacco products on the human body; text explains how smokers can and do die young. (whyquit.com) |
| You Are The Target Description: Book, curriculum, and test project with peer mentors exposes tobacco industry practices. (you-are-the-target.com) |
| Youth Empowerment and Health Promotion Description: Report from Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse. Description of, examples, and discussion of empowering youth, instead of lecturing. (ftcc.fsu.edu) |
| Youth Smoking Prevention/Stay in School Program Description: 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. (rewardsprogram.ca) |
