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Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco: Advocacy: Anti-Tobacco: Prevention: Teen Smoking: Organizations (16) |
Websites on Organizations: ANR: Youth and Tobacco Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights information on youth and tobacco; tobacco industry recruiting of youth; clean indoor air as a youth protection strategy; tobacco industry "prevention" programs; and research on effectiveness of restricting youth access to tobacco. Changing the Environment to Help Kids Grow up Tobacco-Free "Children do not simply 'choose' to smoke. They are greatly influenced by their environment, which is greatly influenced by public policies. Children are much more likely to smoke if they are surrounded by attractive tobacco advertising and promotion; if their favorite sport is sponsored by a tobacco company; if their film idols smoke in the movies; if they see people smoking all around them; and if tobacco products are cheap and readily available to them." FDA - Children and Tobacco Children and Tobacco: The Food and Drug Administration finds that nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco is a drug. and that these products are drug delivery devices. Florida SWAT Tools and tactics for fighting Big Tobacco, ways to make a difference. JEL-Iowa State program run by Iowa teens to oppose tobacco industry efforts to promote tobacco products to the state's teens. Counteradvertising, graphic images of tobacco disease, TV ads, information on tobacco addiction and quitting. Kick Butts Generation Tobacco prevention and tobacco control for Delaware youth. Kids Against Tobacco Smoke Facts and games to help kids stop smoking. Learn about cancer, nicotine and the effect of smoke and join the Kids Against Tobacco Smoking campaign. New Jersey REBEL Reaching Everyone By Exposing Lies. "We are telling Big Tobacco, we're not for sale". Nicotine Free Kids Online web community for teenagers including information on smoking and tobacco. Sponsored by PICS, Inc., and features ads of their quit-smoking products. ODAIS (Office of Drug Abuse Intervention Studies) Conducts prevention and cessation research, predominantly with youth. Developed and researched the ALA's new smoking cessation program for youth, Not On Tobacco. OKSWAT SWAT, Students Working Against Tobacco, a statewide anti-tobacco youth movement in Oklahoma. Reality Check New York youth-led anti-tobacco movement that encourages youth to fight the marketing tactics of the tobacco industry. Saratoga County Reality Check Movement made up of teens from every county in New York State who want to tell the tobacco industry that if they think they can keep targeting New York teens without any resistance, they need a Reality Check. Teenz247 Smoke-free hangout offers games, message boards, local news for teens, and articles to help teenagers in making smart decisions about drugs, smoking, and alcohol. Tobacco Free Kids Campaign attempting to protect children from tobacco addiction by raising awareness of its use. WHO: Tobacco Use by Children WHO factsheet. Tobacco has been called "a pediatric disease" because almost all smokers start smoking, and become addicted to nicotine, while children. A rundown by WHO on how the tobacco industry views young smokers, how tobacco affects children both firsthand and secondhand, and why kids smoke: to be like adults.
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