Directory of Teen Smoking Resources

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Teen and child smoking; initiation of smoking; causes and influences.

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• Organizations
• Prevention
• Promotion

Resources in This Category

• 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.

• 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.

• Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores

  https://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm
  Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.

• Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic

  http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115
  From Consumer Reports.

• 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.

• MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth

  https://medlineplus.gov/smokingandyouth.html
  Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Teenshealth: Smoking

  http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/smoking.html
  Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.

• 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.

• Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/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.

• Youth and Tobacco Facts

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

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