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This category features information, tips, guides, and activities to help kids and teens learn about tobacco use, prevention, physical effects, health risks, and legal issues.

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• 19 year old Sean Marsee's Tobacco Message

  http://whyquit.com/whyquit/SeanMarsee.html
  High school athlete Sean Marsee's experience with smokeless tobacco and snuff.

• Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters

  https://www.adbusters.org/spoofads/tobacco
  Spoofs of ads, including some highly entertaining looks at cigarette 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.

• 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.

• How Smoking Affects The Way You Look

  http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_115.pdf
  ASH-UK fact sheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight. [PDF]

• In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered

  http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html
  PBS show shows smoking damage to your health right now and in the near future, not just 40 years down the line.

• Kids Against Tobacco Smoke

  http://www.roycastle.org/
  UK site features facts about cancer, nicotine and the effect of smoke, firsthand and secondhand, a chance to join the Kids Against Tobacco Smoking campaign, and a message board for kids.

• Maryland Teens Rejecting Abusive Smoking Habits (T.R.A.S.H.)

  http://www.marylandtrash.com/
  Statewide initiative comprised of youth coalitions that have taken a stand against tobacco use. Offers a list of events and opportunities to become involved.

• Memos Highlight Importance Of 'Younger Adult Smokers'

  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/memos.htm
  Washington Post article summarizes what the tobacco industry says in its internal memos about getting kids to smoke.

• Mind Over Matter - How Nicotine Affects the Brain

  http://teens.drugabuse.gov/educators/curricula-and-lesson-plans/mind-over-matter/tobacco-addiction
  How nicotine acts on the brain, and why it's so addictive.

• Passive Smoking (Living With A Smoker)

  http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=285&id=1606
  Information about what it is, what is in the smoke, what can happen, and what to do about it.

• Smokeless Tobacco

  http://kidshealth.org/en/teens/smokeless.html
  What it is, where it comes from, who chews, what it does to you, and quitting.

• Smoking

  http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=285&id=1607
  Discusses why people start smoking, why they continue smoking, and good and bad news.

• Smoking Stinks!

  http://kidshealth.org/en/kids/smoking.html
  Learn what smoking does to the body, why it's bad, and what to do if a friend smokes.

• Smoking: Don't Let It Steer You Wrong: Facts for Teens

  http://familydoctor.org/familydoctor/en/diseases-conditions/tobacco-addiction.html
  What's in cigarettes, addiction, spit tobacco, reasons to quit, how to make quitting easier, and nicotine gum and patches.

• Teens Take on Big Tobacco

  http://www.takingontobacco.org/event/ltk0304/
  In April 2003, 200 teens went to the "belly of the beast" to confront the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris; this is what happened, and how you can be a part of it in 2004.

• The Badvertising Institute

  http://badvertising.org/
  Spoofs cigarette ads.

• The Surgeon General's Report for Kids About Smoking

  http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/sgr/1994/
  Provides basic facts about tobacco and smoking. Also includes a look at what kids are doing from coast to coast to promote a smoke-free environment.

• The World's Fastest Clown: Kids Corner

  http://www.worldsfastestclown.com/kidscner.html
  Learn about the dangers of tobacco. Includes games, puzzles, coloring pages, and posters. [Requires Shockwave]

• thetruth.com

  https://www.thetruth.com/
  Information on cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. HTML and Flash sections.

• They're Rich, You're Dead

  http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco
  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". Uses RealPlayer for video.

• Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth

  http://www.ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_101.pdf
  Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal memos, reports on how the industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth. [PDF]

• Tobaccofree.org

  http://www.tobaccofree.org/
  Anti-smoking group offers a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources.

• Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/background_briefings/smoking/313203.stm
  Brief article discusses the increased risk to teens who smoke. Includes changes to genetic material, damage to all smokers and cancer causing chemicals.

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