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Addicting Kids to Nicotine Addicting Kids to Nicotine: Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain. (Teen Smoking) http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html Teens Can Get Hooked on Cigarettes After 2 Weeks of Puffing 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.cnn.com/2000/US/09/11/kids.tobacco.addiction/ Health News: Teen Smokers Health News: Teen Smokers: Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard. (Teen Smoking) http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker: Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids. (Teen Smoking) http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.html Educational Support Materials on Cancer 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. (Teen Smoking) http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/ Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage 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. (Teen Smoking) http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_briefings/smoking/newsid_313000/313203.stm Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype: Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry. (Teen Smoking) http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson) 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.tobaccofree.org/ Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes: Time magazine article on bidis. (Teen Smoking) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html Smoking Sucks Smoking Sucks: Fighting for a smokefree Newfoundland and Labrador. (Teen Smoking) http://www.smokingsucks.nfld.net/ Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking: Longitudinal research finds that kids who reconized tobacco advertising or owned a tobacco promotional item (T-shirt, cap) were more likely to try smoking, when followed up 3 years later. (Teen Smoking) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/htbin-post/Entrez/query?db=m&form=6&uid=9480360&Dopt=r ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide: Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. (Teen Smoking) http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922 Youth and Tobacco Facts Youth and Tobacco Facts: Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights. (Teen Smoking) http://www.no-smoke.org/youth1.html Progression to Established Smoking Among US Youths 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331 StepUpNC.com 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 Caro (Teen Smoking) http://stepupnc.com Cigarette Smoking Among Philippine Teens is High 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.cyberdyaryo.com/features/f2001_0817_04.htm Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People: 5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes. (Teen Smoking) http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm Tobacco and Kids: The Facts Tobacco and Kids: The Facts: Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids. (Teen Smoking) http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm Parenting of Adolescents Parenting of Adolescents: What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects. (Teen Smoking) http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage: Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking. (Teen Smoking) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld3.html Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic: From Consumer Reports. (Teen Smoking) http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115 MEDLINEplus: Smoking and Youth MEDLINEplus: Smoking and Youth: Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. (Teen Smoking) http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking: 36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject. (Teen Smoking) http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html Young People and Smoking Young People and Smoking: Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention. (Teen Smoking) http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco and Tobacco-Caused Disease 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm Slugfest in the Smoke Ring 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores: Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking. (Teen Smoking) http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm Teens Against Smoking in Kansas 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.kstask.org Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes 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 (Teen Smoking) http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html Alaska Native Health Board: Challenge to Quit Alaska Native Health Board: Challenge to Quit: A unique smoking cessation research project for Alaskan teenagers. (Teen Smoking) http://www.anhb.org/sub/CTQ/ctqhome.htm Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion: Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities. (Teen Smoking) http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm STATIC - Students Teaching Against Tobacco in Connecticut STATIC - Students Teaching Against Tobacco in Connecticut: STATIC is a means by which the young people of Connecticut may develop a coordinated, unified front against the manipulation and targeting by Big Tobacco. (Teen Smoking) http://www.ctstatic.org tobaccofreekids.org Special Report: Big Tobacco: Still Addicting 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. (Teen Smoking) http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/ In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html Blowing Smoke Blowing Smoke: Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies. (Teen Smoking) http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu Youth Smoking - A Burning issue Youth Smoking - A Burning issue: Report from a symposium held July 1999. Summary of findings, paper presentations, talks; recommendations. (Teen Smoking) http://www.nzdf.org.nz/Symposium1.html Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools: Information resource list. (Teen Smoking) http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm Study Shows Philip Morris's Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids More Likely to Smoke 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. (Teen Smoking) http://www.apha.org/news/press/2002/truth.htm