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Teen Survey Shows Drops in Meth Use, Smoking: http://www.ucanquit2.org/inthenews.aspx?id=594
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NEWGREENMEDIA.TV: NJ.com: Anti-tobacco group says N.J. falls short ...: A file photo of a teen smoking a cigarette at a http://url4.eu/waX3
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NEWGREENMEDIA.TV: NJ.com: Anti-tobacco group says N.J. falls short ...: A file photo of a teen smoking a cigarette at a http://url4.eu/waX3
Teen smoking rate down. http://ow.ly/M1IA
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Teen smoking rate down. http://ow.ly/M1IA
Fed Survey: Teen Pot Use Up; Meth Use, Smoking Down: http://wellnessjournal.org/i/Fed-Survey-Teen-Pot-Use-Up-Meth-Use-Smoking-Down/
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404 Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth - Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.
Meta Description: [ Tobacco Explained: 3. Marketing to children, ASH UK Paper ]

Tobacco ComplianceChecker - Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.

Addicting Kids to Nicotine - Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.

ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide - Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
Meta Description: [ Advance for Nurses is a regional biweekly trade publication offering content relevant to registered nurses, including jobs, career advice, clinical articles and CE opportunities for RNs. ]

404 Alaska Native Health Board: Challenge to Quit - A unique smoking cessation research project for Alaskan teenagers.

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.
Meta Description: [ Anti-smoking links guide -- quit smoking info, teen smoking prevention, educational videos, K-12 assembly programs, speakers, & anti-tobacco news. ]

Blowing Smoke - Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.

Cigarette Smoking Among Philippine Teens is High - Reports on survey of 3000 students. Topics include peer influence, role of advertising, and lack of government support for an anti-smoking campaign.

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.

Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores - Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.

Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools - Information resource list.

Health News: Teen Smokers - Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
Meta Description: [ Principal Health News provides information on health and wellness, along with daily health news, full-text journal and magazine articles, personalized newsletters and e-mail reminders, shopping, and more. ]

Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic - From Consumer Reports.
Meta Description: [ GASP of Colorado (Group to alleviate Smoking Pollution) is a statewide nonprofit organization that works to promote smoke-free policies and educate the public about the dangers of secondhand smoke. ]

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.

MEDLINEplus: Smoking and Youth - Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Meta Description: [ Smoking and Youth ]

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.

Parenting of Adolescents - What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
Meta Description: [ Preventing Tobacco Use and Addiction Among Young People ]

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.

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.

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.

Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People - 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.

Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype - Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
Meta Description: [ Almost everyone knows that smoking causes disease, that it can shorten a person's life, and that the habit can cost a smoker thousands of dollars a year. So how come people are still lighting up? ]

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.

404 Study Shows Philip Morris's Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids More Likely to Smoke - 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.

Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes - Time magazine article on bidis.
Meta Description: [ Teens are flocking to a hip form of smokes. There are hidden dangers ]

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.

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.

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking - 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.

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.
Meta Description: [ This web page written by thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD represents an attempt to provide young peopleand their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lungcancer risk, diagnosis and treatment. ]

Tobacco and Kids: The Facts - Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.

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.

404 Young People and Smoking - Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.

404 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.

Youth and Tobacco Facts - Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
Meta Description: [ Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights (ANR) works to pass legislation at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and protect youth from tobacco addiction. The American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation (ANRF), ANR's educational arm, promotes smoking prevention and education ab... ]

404 Youth Smoking - A Burning issue - Report from a symposium held July 1999. Summary of findings, paper presentations, talks; recommendations.

Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion - Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.