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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides young people and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.
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)
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)
