Directory of Teen Smoking Resources

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Factors and influences that promote teen smoking.

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Resources in This Category

• Ad Money Moves from Billboards to Print

  http://www.tobacco.org/News/000515ma.html
  Report finds cigarette marketing to teens through magazine advertising increased after the Master Settlement Agreement took effect in November

• Addicting the Young

  http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/01/mm0192_07.html
  Article on recent tobacco industry tactics to recruit young customers, such as cartoon characters in cigarette ads, rock music promotions, and making cigarettes easily available to youth.

• Adolescent Exposure to Cigarette Advertising in Magazines

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/279/7/516
  Research by Harvard Professor.

• An Ad-erage Day in the Life of a Kid

  http://www.tobacco.org/Misc/kids_ad_day.html
  A tobacco-ad-filled day in the life of a kid.

• BAT Lures Young smokers With Online Scheme

  http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/jan/24/marketingandpr.newmedia
  British American Tobacco is planning an extraordinary internet campaign to drive unwitting young consumers to bars and clubs where it promotes its cigarettes, according to a leaked company memo. Article explains, and provides the memo.

• Big Tobacco Up to Old Tricks

  http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-19-edtwof2.htm
  USA Today editorial focuses on tobacco industry marketing attractive to teens.

• Cigarette Ads - A Promise Broken

  http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/smokead.html
  Summarizes research showing that tobacco ad spending has not decreased since the tobacco industry agreed to stop targeting youth; examines where the ad budget goes.

• Cigarette Ads Stomp Out Anti-Smoking Efforts

  http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=88094&page=1
  Study concludes that cigarette ads lead young people to identify smoking with popularity and relaxation, and these associations are stronger than any perceived risk picked up from anti-smoking ads.

• Cigarette Brand Preferences Among Adolescents

  http://monitoringthefuture.org/pubs/occpapers/occ45.pdf
  Paper from the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. Concludes: "The very high rates of cigarette smoking found among American teenagers in the late 1990s are associated with the popularity of just three brands..."

• Designing a Cigarette for the First Time Smoker

  http://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/11/suppl_1/i32.full
  Article in scientific journal examines how R. J. Reynolds designed a cigarette to appeal to young starters.

• Do Candy Cigarettes Encourage Young People to Smoke?

  http://www.bmj.com/content/321/7257/362
  Paper in British Medical Journal. Executives of both the tobacco and candy industries regarded candy cigarettes as good advertising to future smokers; tobacco companies granted candy makers permission to use cigarette pack designs and tolerated trademark infringement.

• Ever Wonder What the Future Holds for Joe?

  http://www.joechemo.org/
  Essay comments on RJ Reynolds' Joe Camel advertising campaign.

• Influence of Tobacco Marketing and Exposure to Smokers on Adolescent Susceptibility to Smoking

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7563188?dopt=Abstract
  Scientific paper finds cigarette advertising is a stronger influence on teen smoking than other factors.

• Marketing Professor Finds Youth More Influenced by Cigarette Advertising Than Adults

  http://www.ndsn.org/may96/tobacco.html
  Marketing professor finds that teens are more likely to be influenced by strategic tobacco advertising than adults.

• News & Opinion: Black Lungs

  http://weeklywire.com/ww/06-22-98/gambit_feat-scut.html
  Column on tobacco marketing to black teens.

• Philip Morris and Targeting Kids

  http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/philipmorris.pdf
  Factsheet outlines how tobacco giant Philip Morris (Altria) targets kids, and documents what Philip Morris says in private about marketing to kids and about its anti-youth-smoking ads as a public relations ploy.

• Philip Morris Polled Teens on Smoking

  http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9612/15/youth.smoking/
  The nation's largest tobacco company used pollsters through the 1970s and 1980s to learn more about teens' smoking attitudes.

• Philip Morris Schoolbook Covers

  http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=2&subcategory_id=38&article_id=45
  Commercial Alert takes a hard look at Philip Morris's giveaway of school book covers.

• RJR on the "youth market"

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddrjryouth.html
  Document from R.J. Reynolds (RJR) site shows that 14 year old smokers were not just a viable, but a very sought after market for RJR.

• Smoke This

  http://www.localaccess.com/wfwc/issue7/smoke.htm
  Op-ed on tobacco industry promotions to youth.

• Study: Tobacco Companies Still Market Cigarettes to Teens

  http://edition.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/08/15/tobacco.advertising/
  New England Journal of Medicine study finds that a 1998 tobacco industry promise not to market to teens has had little effect; advertising for youth brands of cigarettes in youth-oriented magazines has not decreased.

• The Marlboro Man lives

  http://www.salon.com/2000/02/10/tobacco_ads/
  Article in Salon magazine. "Big Tobacco money is being spent differently than before, but it's still targeting our youth."

• They said WHAT?

  http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/documentquotes.html
  Collection of quotes: what the industry says in its own internal documents on nicotine and addiction, tobacco products and health, legalese, youth, and evidence.

• Tobacco Ads May Undermine Good Parenting

  http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/Script/DisplayPressRelease.php3?Display=521
  A new study presents evidence that tobacco industry marketing undermines the best efforts of parents to prevent their kids from smoking.

• Tobacco Companies Finding Easy Way Around Magazine Advertising Ban to Target Youth

  http://www.healthaffairs.org/press/marapr0202.htm
  A new study examines how the tobacco industry has complied with a 1998 court settlement banning magazine advertising directed at teenagers, finds that youth targeting persisted and even increased in the first two years after the ban went into effect.

• Tobacco Company Magazine Ads Continue To Target Children

  http://www.oncolink.org/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=1568
  Research report from Harvard Business School analyzes advertising expenditures in 30 adult- and youth-oriented magazines, finds that young people smoke cigarettes advertised in youth magazines.

• Tobacco Giant's Secret Papers Revealed

  http://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/sep/07/smoking.uk
  Britain's biggest tobacco company was so concerned that it would lose market share to hard drugs such as cocaine and heroin that it attempted to market a 'rebellious' image for cigarettes to make them more attractive to youngsters.

• Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking

  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9480360?dopt=Abstract
  Research measures whether tobacco advertising and promotion increases the likelihood that youths will begin smoking.

• Tobacco Industry Quotes on Marketing to Kids

  http://www.mascotcoalition.org/education/facts/own_words2.html
  Quotes compiled by MASCOT, the Multicultural advocates for social change on tobacco.

• Tobacco Industry Reviewed Potential Smoking Habits of 5-year-olds

  http://www.cnn.com/US/9803/07/minn.tobacco/
  Brown and Williamson Tobacco engaged a marketing research firm to look at the potential smoking habits of children as young as 5, according to internal company documents. A judge said Brown and Williamson "blatantly abused" attorney-client privilege to keep these documents secret.

• Tobacco Marketing and Young People

  http://www.tobaccopapers.com/casestudies/index.htm#tobaccomarketing
  Research finds the tobacco industry has detailed pictures of the values and aspirations of smokers as young as 15 years.

• UK tobacco firm targets African youth

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/933430.stm
  BAT (British American Tobacco) hands out free cigarettes to teenagers at sports events in Africa, a BBC investigation finds.

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