Tobacco
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Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights
Description: Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is the only national lobbying organization dedicated to nonsmokers' rights, taking on the tobacco industry at all levels of government to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke and youth from tobacco addiction. ANR pursues an action-oriented program of policy and legislation.
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
Description: The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is fighting to free America's youth from tobacco and to create a healthier environment. The Campaign is one of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives ever launched to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to secondhand smoke.
CDC's Tobacco Information & Prevention Source
Description: The Office on Smoking and Health is responsible for leading and coordinating strategic efforts aimed at preventing tobacco use among youth, promoting smoking cessation, and protecting nonsmokers from environmental tobacco smoke (ETS).
Description: Kick Butts Day is an annual initiative that encourages activism and leadership among elementary, middle and high school students. It's the day America's kids stand up to tobacco, and America's adults stand up for kids. Kick Butts Day rallies and events take place in every state, and several nations, showing that kids are powerful voices in the fight against tobacco. The site includes activities and information about organizing events.
Description: Tobacco.org is a free resource center focusing on tobacco and smoking issues. It features tobacco news, information, assistance for smokers trying to quit, alerts on tobacco control issues, and open consideration of all aspects of the spectrum of issues concerning tobacco, nicotine, cigarettes and cigars.
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Description: This document provides facts and statistics about daily cigarette use among youth. Daily cigarette use fell by one-half among eighth grade students between 1996 and 2002, from 10 percent to 5 percent, and by more than two-fifths among tenth grade students, from 18 percent to 10 percent.
Healthy Youth! Health Topics: Tobacco Use
Description: This fact sheet discusses issues related to youth tobacco use and health. It identifies rates of tobacco use, the health effects of tobacco, addition in youth and the status of sales and promotion to youth.
Author: Plous, Scott
Description: The site presents facts, resources, and activities related to tobacco and smoking using a cartoon character, Joe Chemo.
Teen Talk: It’s just one cigarette 
Author: McCann, Ellie (2 more by this author); Jodi Dworkin, Ph.D.
Description: A fact sheet for parents about talking to their teenager about smoking.
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Children Ages 10 to 12 Ambivalent About Smoking and Drinking
Description: Children ages 10 to 12 feel ambivalent about smoking and drinking, suggests a new study. They have both positive and negative associations with alcohol and cigarettes at this age, according to PsychCentral.
Tobacco Control Efforts Prevented Almost 800,000 Deaths in 25 Years
Description: Tobacco control efforts, such as increases in cigarette taxes and bans on smoking in public places, prevented almost 800,000 deaths from lung cancer in the United States between 1975 and 2000, according to a new study.
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Description: Media literacy and tobacco program for 5-8 grade students. Three units with 5-6 activities per unit. Topics include the origins, content, and effects of tobacco and interpretation, history, and strategies of media marketing.
Description: Two 18 minute videos present the pitfalls of cigarette use and the relation between cigarette smoking and physical fitness.
Plátique sobre el tabaco (Teens--tobacco talk)
Author: Chiezah, Michelle; Laurie Meschkle
Description: A fact sheet in both Spanish and English about smoking myths and facts and talking to teens about tobacco.
Teens “Kick Butt” and Create Tobacco-Free Communities
Author: Arblaster, Cindy; Anne M. Lail, Penn State Cooperative Extension
Description: In this workshop, participants learned how youth can become peer educators and engage in tobacco prevention activities through the American Lung Association’sTeens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) Program. T.A.T.U teaches youth leadership, advocacy, and healthy living skills. This hands-on workshop illustrated how T.A.T.U. has been successfully implemented in Pennsylvania, and will demonstrate fun ways to get the youth you work with involved in promoting their own tobacco-free community! (2008 CYFAR Conference Presentation)
Description: The Hope Share, a new story-sharing portal created by The Partnership at Drugfree.org, is designed to elevate stories of recovery and inspire others to speak out and help break the stigma and discrimination surrounding addiction.
Description: A fact sheet for parents about youth and tobacco use.
Whose Kids? Our Kids!: Teens and Tobacco
Author: Huser, Mary (8 more by this author); Karen Hintz; Donna Doll-Yogerst; Stephen Small
Description: A fact sheet for parents about talking to youth about tobacco.
Whose Kids? Our Kids!: When Teens Use Tobacco
Author: Huser, Mary (8 more by this author); Karen Hintz; Donna Doll-Yogerst; Stephen Small
Description: A fact sheet for parents about talking to youth using tobacco.
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Adolescent Health Highlights: Tobacco Use
Description: Cigarette smoking has steadily declined among adolescents during the last fifteen years, although use of some tobacco products, like cigars, has seen recent increases. However, large numbers of teens continue to use tobacco products. This Adolescent Health Highlight presents key research findings; describes prevalence and trends; illustrates connections between behaviors and health outcomes; and discusses issues specific to particular adolescent populations.
Opportunities for Policy Interventions to Reduce Youth Hookah Smoking in the United States
Author: Morris, Daniel
Description: Preventing youth smoking initiation is a priority for tobacco control programs, because most adult tobacco smokers become addicted during adolescence. Interventions that restrict the affordability, accessibility, and marketing of cigarettes have been effective in reducing youth cigarette smoking. However, increasing numbers of youth are smoking tobacco using hookahs. Predictors of smoking tobacco with hookahs are the same as those for smoking cigarettes. Established interventions that curb youth cigarette smoking should therefore be effective in reducing hookah use. Potential policy interventions include equalizing tobacco tax rates for all tobacco types, requiring warning labels on hookah tobacco and accurate labeling of product contents, extending the cigarette flavoring ban to hookah tobacco, enacting smoke-free air laws and removing exemptions for hookah lounges, and expanding shipping restrictions on tobacco products.
Youth Facts: Tobacco and Youth
Author: Erickson, Kimberly (2 more by this author)
Description: This eight-page report provides a comprehensive review of data on youth tobacco use (both cigarettes and smokeless tobacco), describes data on connections between tobacco use and other unhealthy youth risk behaviors, and explores implications for prevention.