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Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain.

Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses.

Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking.

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.

Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.

Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format.

Research finds that point-of-purchase cigarette ads at convenience stores influence teen smoking.

Searchable database shows which retailers did and didn't sell tobacco to kids.

Information resource list.

Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard.

From Consumer Reports.

PBS show on smoking. Emphasis is on effects of smoking in the here and now, not just 40 years down the line.

Resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine.

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.

What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.

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.

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.

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.

5 papers (abstracts only) from RWJ Foundation sponsored study on youth tobacco practices and attitudes.

Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry.

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.

Time magazine article on bidis.

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.

36 pages of facts and quotes on the subject.

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