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Addicting Kids to Nicotine
Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html

Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage
Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract

Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson)
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.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/

Blowing Smoke
Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu

Educational Support Materials on Cancer
Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.
http://extension.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/

Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores
Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm

FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker
Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.html

Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools
Information resource list.
http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm

Health News: Teen Smokers
Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers

Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic
From Consumer Reports.
http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115

In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered
PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.
http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html

MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth
Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html

Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes
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.
http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html

Parenting of Adolescents
What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm

Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths
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.
http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331

Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet
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.
http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm

Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People
5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm

Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html

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.
http://stepupnc.com

Teens Against Smoking in Kansas
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.
http://www.kstask.org

Tobacco and Kids: The Facts
Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking
36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html

tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting Kids
Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/

Young People and Smoking
Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. [PDF]
http://newash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_108.pdf

The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease
Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm

Youth and Tobacco Facts
Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202

Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion
Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm

Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes
Time magazine article on bidis. (December 16, 2002)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html

ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. (February, 2002)
http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922

Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing
CNN report on a study that found that young people who experiment with cigarettes can become chemically dependent on tobacco faster than people think. (September 11, 2000)
http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/kids.tobacco.addiction/

Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage
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. (April 7, 1999)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/health/background_briefings/smoking/313203.stm

Slugfest in the Smoke Ring
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. (March 1, 1998)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm