ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
   Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.
   http://www.advancefornurses.com/common/editorial/editorial.aspx?CC=3922

Addicting Kids to Nicotine
   Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.
   http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html

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.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract

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.
   http://www.tobaccofree.org/

Blowing Smoke
   Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.
   http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu

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.
   http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/

Effects of Anti- and Pro-smoking Advertising in Convenience Stores
   Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/paper_10287.htm

FDA Children & Tobacco ComplianceChecker
   Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.
   http://www.fda.gov/opacom/campaigns/tobacco/compliancechecker.html

Health Canada - Tobacco and Schools
   Information resource list.
   http://www.schoolfile.com/hctrp2.htm

Health News: Teen Smokers
   Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.
   http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers

Hooked on Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic
   From Consumer Reports.
   http://www.gaspforair.org/gasp/gedc/artcl-new.php?ID=115

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.
   http://www.pbs.org/inthemix/shows/show_smoking.html

MedlinePlus: Smoking and Youth
   Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/smokingandyouth.html

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
   http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html

Parenting of Adolescents
   What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
   http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm

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.
   http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/2/331

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.
   http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm

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.
   http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm

Smoking and Tobacco Use Among Young People
   5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_1594.htm

Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
   Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.
   http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html

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
   http://stepupnc.com

Sweet as Candy, Deadly as Cigarettes
   Time magazine article on bidis.
   http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101021216-397513,00.html

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.
   http://www.kstask.org

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Teen Smoking
   36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.
   http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter15/Chap15_Children_Smoking.html

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.
   http://www.smokinglungs.com/cyberlib.htm

Tobacco and Kids: The Facts
   Broad summary of issues from the Center for Tobacco-Free Kids.
   http://www.acponline.org/journals/news/nov96/handouts.htm

Young People and Smoking
   Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects, addiction, and prevention.
   http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact03.html

Youth Tobacco Issues: A Roundtable Discussion
   Session from health conference on smoking influences, smokefree programs and policies, and engaging youth in tobacco control activities.
   http://apha.confex.com/apha/128am/techprogram/session_3332.htm

Youth and Tobacco Facts
   Factsheet on youth and tobacco from Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights.
   http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=202

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.
   http://tobaccofreekids.org/reports/addicting/