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Debi
"They say nicotine isn't addictive." This shocker is from the California Department of Health Services
http://www.commercial-archive.com/data/c/californiahealth00.html

Restaurant (1999) :30
http://www.commercial-archive.com/data/p/philipmorris00.html

Party (1999) :30
http://www.commercial-archive.com/data/p/philipmorris01.html

Philip Morris' Youth Smoking Prevention commercials
From the Commercial Archive
http://www.commercial-archive.com/brand/p/philipmorris.html

www.Buttoutnow.com
["Under Construction"] Lorillard's anti-youth smoking site for kids
http://www.buttoutnow.com/

"Tobacco Is Whacko"
http://www.mediaondemand.com/demo/2take10/whacko.html

Active Parenting Publishers
Dr. Michael Popkin, who provides some material for this, is the founder and president.
http://www.activeparenting.com/

www.2Take10.com
Lorillard's anti-youth smoking site for parents who want to obtain information on talking to their kids about not smoking
http://www.2take10.com/

Youth Smoking Prevention
The international site for BAT/JT/MO's efforts.

Please select your country/region: EUROPE Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland United Kingdom Other countries AFRICA ASIA AUSTRALASIA LATIN AMERICA MIDDLE EAST NORTH AMERICA See the Press Release: Ad Campaign Reflects Tobacco Industry's Commitment to Help Prevent Youth Smoking

As part of a comprehensive, long-term youth smoking prevention effort, the world's three leading tobacco companies are jointly funding a pan-European television advertising campaign aimed at combating youth smoking. The three companies are actively looking to join with others in the industry and society to help address this serious issue.

Health Rocks! Website
http://www.healthrocks.org/resource/showquestion.asp?fldAuto=33&...

Health Rocks!
4-H's youth smoking prevention program--sponsored by Philip Morris
http://www.fourhcouncil.org/Market/healthrocks/index.htm

Questions & Answers about the National Youth Smoking Prevention Program
Answers to common questions about the National Youth Smoking Prevention Program.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/QandA.htm

Letter from Michael E. Szymanczyk, CEO of Philip Morris USA
to Dick Sauer, President and CEO of National 4-H Council about the grant.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/ceoletter.htm

National Youth Smoking Prevention Program Fact Sheet
A brief fact sheet summary of the program.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/f

Kids & Smoking Fact Sheet
Read statistics on youth smoking.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/market/KidsFact.htm

Design Team Representation Information
Find out who the design team is and what types of experience they have.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/market/design.htm

Request for Proposal
on NYSPP - NOW AVAILABLE.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/ycc/rfpinfo.htm

NYSPP Update
makes its debut as the electronic newsletter with information about the National Youth Smoking Prevention Program.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/nysppupd1.htm

Read Dick Sauer's letter to Bill Novelli
, the President of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/novelli.htm

Draw Communities Together, Stop Youth Smoking, Press Release
- Issued  March 25, 1999 at a press conference at the National Press Club.
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/market/pr032599.htm

NACS and Congress
National Association of Convenience Store Owners is against the settlement

To assist you in your discussion with your Member, NACS has prepared a document entitled "Why NACS Does Not Support the Tobacco Settlement," which contains talking points on the deal cut between the tobacco companies and state attorneys general. This document can be retieved from NACSfax by dialing 1-800-555-4633 and requesting document #167. If you meet with your lawmaker, please let NACS know. You can call Lyle Beckwith at (703) 684-3600, fax a note to (703) 836-4564, or e-mail to lbeckwith@cstorecentral.com.

Convenience Store News
90% of smokers start by the age of 18; 50% by the age of 15. Where have they been getting supplied? Is there a black market in the US? No, it's all over-the-counter, and sting operations indicate convenience stores have a notoriously lousy record when it comes to selling smokes to kids. Here's PR on the National Association of Convenience Stores' No Ifs Ands Or Butts Program in association with the Jaycees. As usual, it's tough talk of "No ifs, ands, or butts about it, tobacco isn't for kids, and they shouldn't be able to buy tobacco products at convenience stores or anywhere. But why isn't tobacco for kids? No particular health reason given, it might as well be just plain adult orneriness. This is the "Daring Kids to Smoke" ploy, the tough-worded dare spread through the Coalition for Responsible Tobacco Retailing's "We Card" program.

http://www.csnews.com/

We Card Site
Coalition for Responsible Retailing. Challenge: find a word about the health effects of tobacco.
http://www.wecard.org/

Life Skills Training Website
The hotly-disputed teen program--which contains anti-smoking material--pushed by Brown & Williamson & Philip Morris.

The Life Skills Training program is a proven, highly effective, substance abuse prevention/competency enhancement program designed to focus primarily on the major social and psychological factors promoting substance use/abuse. The LST program was developed by Dr. Gilbert J. Botvin, a leading expert on drug abuse prevention, for middle or junior high school students. It consists of 15 classes that can be implemented in the first year of middle school (usually the 6th grade) or the first year of junior high (usually the 7th grade). The program includes five major components, which consist of two to six lessons and are designed to be taught in sequence.

4-H Council National Youth Smoking Prevention Program Index
http://www.fourhcouncil.edu/market/previndex.htm

Youth Media Network
Newly redesigned!

The basic premise of YMN is to engage youth to take action! Students can fight back against the tobacco industry and its influence on their peers by using different media to relay their health message whether it be a news story, a feature story, an editorial, a Public Services Announcement (PSA-radio or television), a rap, a poem, a cartoon, a video, etc. . . Acting as "news wire service", YMN will upload tobacco-related articles from numerous sources to the YMN website.

October is Child Health Month
Substance abuse is this year's focus. Lots of fact sheets, resources from the American Academy of Pediatrics

The Child Health Month theme for 1997-99 is substance abuse prevention. This year, materials listed below address tobacco use -- specifically smoking, environmental tobacco smoke, and smokeless or chewing tobacco -- and the health risks they pose for children.

University of North Carolina Olfaction Laboratory
RJR-partnered Smell-Lab

U.N.C.O.L The University of North Carolina Olfaction Laboratory was founded in 1987 to facilitate a basic research program in human chemosensory science. Part of this is known as the RJR-UNC Collaborative Olfactory Research Program. The partners in this program are the UNC Craniofacial Center (Director and Kenan Professor: Dr. D.W. Warren) and the Research & Development section of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., located in Winston-Salem, NC. Currently, the lab is mainly funded by the Center for Indoor Air Research.

GRIP Student Opinion Forum
Nice survey setup

Let your voice be heard by your political representatives and the news media! This is your opportunity to voice your opinion and make a difference. Select from the following topics on the recent Tobacco Industry Debate to send your opinion directly to your political representatives and/or the news media.

The Real Scoop on Tobacco
Kind of a Teen-Teacher lesson plan, with helpful internet sites. From WebQuest

You have been hired by the parents of Icabod, a sixth grade student. They suspect their child of smoking or about to start. He's gone through D.A.R.E. and listened to the lectures of his parents and teachers. However, he thinks they are all just handing him a line. After all, he sees lots of adults smoking and figures it isn't really so bad. In fact, he thinks it's pretty cool. But he might listen to you. After all, you're his peer. That's what his parents are counting on. They've hired you to convince him to quit smoking. To do so, you must show your commitment to the fight against youth using tobacco and create a memorable message for him. Do a good job - it could be a matter of life and death.

For Parents: Understanding Teenage Smoking and Helping Your Teenager Avoid the Habit

Hello, My name is Marshall Brain, and as the author of the book The Teenager's Guide to the Real WorldI answer a quite a few questions from both teenagers and their parents. I also answer quite a few questions from various media sources. An extremely common question is, "How can we prevent teenage smoking?" In this letter I would like to address this issue and give you, as a parent, several different ideas to think about if you are faced with a teenager who begins, for whatever reason, to consider or actually take up smoking.

ICEFIRE Productions on Tour: "Your Whole Life"

Your Whole Life is a one man tour de force which provides a thorough and entertaining explanation of nicotine, narcotics and the process of addiction. We also explore how the $10 million dollars worth of advertising spent daily by the tobacco industry affects our children.

The Deal with Smoking
http://www.drsteve.org/smoke.html

DR. STEVE: The Real Story: Drinking/Smoking/Getting High

I'm Dr. Steve Adelman, a maven on substance use and substance abuse. I'm here in cyberspace to answer your questions (FOR FREE!) about smoking, drinking, alcoholism, and using drugs. If you are wondering whether or not to start or to stop using a substance, where to draw the line betwee n acceptable and risky substance use, and how to go about assessing, reducing, or eliminating the damage being done to yourself or to someone you care about by tobacco, alcohol or drugs, then this is the site for you!

RESPECT UK
If you smoke, know someone who smokes, or think you may smoke in the future, you need RESPECT UK's anti-youth smoking campaign set up by the Department of Health--and run by an ad agency with some style and sass--to examine why young people smoke and find ways to encourage them to stop or never to start.
http://www.healthnet.org.uk/respect

HUNGARY: Smoking Prevention in Kindergartens Project (1992-2001)
Smoking or Health Hungarian Foundation

As far as we know more and more kindergartens have children who have already tried out smoking. Our objective was to create a kindergarten program for smoking prevention that provides information to children, kindergarten teachers, welfare workers, and doctors and helps to form their attitude towards smoking.

Big Tobacco's Seldom Told Plan For Our Children
Nicely done presentation of how self-service displays often seem to be tailor-made to facilitate shoplifting.

See how this tobacco display 1) is tall enough to obscure an adult standing in front or to the side of it, 2) is placed at a little-used (often unattended) check stand . . . 3) is directly across from the store's open-topped, bulk candy bin, and 4) is placed at the check stand nearest the door.

Community Intervention
Tools to help youth.
http://www.communityintervention.com/

Tobacco Free Zone of Imperial County (CA)
Lively design; a nice page on Kids and Tobacco marketing that succinctly hits all the bases.

"XENA," a popular show for young people this season, has regularly used tobacco in their script. Recent blockbuster hits such as INDEPENDENCE DAY, TITANIC, and the FACE-OFF have also made smoking attractive and rugged. Popular magazines with youth such as VOGUE, GQ, COSMO, and ESPN rely on much of their advertising coming from Big Tobacco. . . . Go to your favorite discount store ( except TARGET, they don't carry tobacco. Shop Target! ) and notice where the tobacco is located. . . You'll be surprised to learn that tobacco marketing is everywhere, everywhere you're child wants to be.

Expose the Truth (about tobacco ads)

Now, you might not think that seeing ads in magazines or on billboards influences you to smoke. But, advertisements do not say "Go out right now and buy a pack of Smokeeze!" They are sneaky and subtle. Ads make use of your fantasies or insecurities -- anything to create a feeling that smoking is good thing. Take a look at these examples of tobacco advertisements. What are the images trying to tell you or make you feel?

Girls Incorporated: Stamp out Smoking

Welcome to Stamp Out Smoking, the first website that encourages girls, young women and the adults who care about them to become strong, smart and bold about the dangers of tobacco.

Foundation for the Prevention of Youth Smoking

The tobacco settlement agreement establishes a national foundation to study and develop methods to reduce youths use of tobacco products.

Copy of School Tobacco Policy

The STOP board successfully drafted a new school tobacco policy for the five school districts in the Southern Aroostook area at a work session in November,1998.

Maryland Children's Initiative
Nice compilation of mission, FAQ, bill texts, endorsing orgs, activist aids, news articles, etc.

The Initiative is a grassroots campaign to raise the State's cigarette tax by $1.00 per pack over 2 years to reduce teen smoking and help recover the $1.5 billion spent annually in Maryland on treating sick smokers.

TRUTH
The American Legacy Foundation's site

It's pretty simple. Big Tobacco is spending billions on a war to get inside our heads and get us to smoke. They are good at what they do. But they are afraid of us discovering the truth about what the've done - and they are really afraid of us getting together in a place they can't reach, where our ideas, our music and our media stand up tall to question business as usual. This is the place where it all happens...

WA: Campus Tobacco Use: Prevention and Conflict of Interest
History of "Students for Tobacco Awareness at the University of Washington" battle to end tobacco sales on campus.
http://faculty.washington.edu/ted1/tobacco.html

Kick Ash Bash
From Minnesota's Tobacc Market kids
http://www.kickashbash.com/

Question it! Win it!

Michael from Pearl! He's the man! Michael came up with an idea to stick it to tobacco where it really hurts. Don't want to give it away just yet, but let's just say it's sure to make them sit up and take notice. For his excellent idea, Michael will receive an Apple iMac computer.

Spin Doctors
How the tobacco industry worms its way into your head.

Sports Illustrated, People, Rolling Stone and Vogue all get at least 15% of their readership from people under 18! Why do tobacco companies put their ads in magazines you read?

Question It
"Your body is a battleground, Your Mind is a weapon. " High-energy anti-youth-smoking site from the Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi .
http://www.questionit.com/home.html

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