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Addicting Kids to Nicotine
- Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine
does in the brain.
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Blowing Smoke - Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum
designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco
in current movies.
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MEDLINEplus: Smoking and Youth - Resources from the U.S.
National Library of Medicine.
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Parenting of Adolescents - What parents can do to prevent
teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects.
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Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet - Youth smoking is as big a problem as
it ever was. Parents and teachers are often at a loss as to how to
deal with the fact that their children may already smoke or the
chance that they may become hooked on cigarettes in the future. This
page is therefore dedicated to providing as much information about
the subject as is possible, and to answering potential questions on
smoking among youth and children.
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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.
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Tobacco Education Center: Hooked On Tobacco: The Teen Epidemic
(Consumer Reports) - Over the past three decades, the number of
smokers in the U.S. has slowly but steadily declined. But now that
progressive trend may come to a halt. The drop in the nation's
smoking rate is leveling off, and for a chilling reason: As adult
smokers quit, there's a steady supply of teenagers stepping up to
replace them.
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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. (UK)
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Turning the Tide (Jolynn Tumolo): Drawing Teens Away from Tobacco
- Aside from the landmark legal case that sent the cigarette
industry reeling, the 1990s were a lackluster decade for the
anti-tobacco fight. While the nation watched lawyers and plaintiffs
reveal incriminating evidence about tobacco companies' motives,
American teens were embracing their products at near record levels.
(ADVANCE for Nurses)
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Young People and Smoking -
Factsheet from ASH-UK covers prevalence, influences, effects,
addiction, and prevention.
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