High school athlete Sean Marsee's experience with smokeless tobacco and snuff.

Spoofs of ads, including some highly entertaining looks at cigarette advertising.

How smoking can make your teeth fall out.

Offers information by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies.

Information for kids about the effects of using spit ("smokeless") tobacco.

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.

Videos spoof sitcoms and the tobacco industry.

The online companion to the PBS broadcast, with resources and information for teens and educators about smoking prevention, cessation, and advertising. "Cigarettes can cause serious damage to your health right now and in the near future, not just 40 years down the line".

Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke; features a "Share A Story" section.

Facts and games to help kids stop smoking. Learn about cancer, nicotine and the effect of smoke and join the Kids Against Tobacco Smoking campaign.

Statewide initiative comprised of youth coalitions that have taken a stand against tobacco use. Offers a list of events and opportunities to become involved.

Washington Post article summarizes what the tobacco industry says in its internal memos about getting kids to smoke.

How nicotine acts on the brain, and why it's so addictive.

Information about what it is, what is in the smoke, what can happen, and what to do about it.

Tobacco information, ad contest, message board, events, and news; requires Flash.

Contains a thought provoking video, regular competitions, a forum and stop smoking support. Also includes informative and controversial smoking issues, sections on the effects on the body, facts and myths and free postcards and stickers.

The facts, straight up, on smoking. No guilt-trips. No nagging. TV ads online.

What it is, where it comes from, who chews, what it does to you, and quitting.

Discusses why people start smoking, why they continue smoking, and good and bad news.

Learn what smoking does to the body, why it's bad, and what to do if a friend smokes.

What's in cigarettes, addiction, spit tobacco, reasons to quit, how to make quitting easier, and nicotine gum and patches.

Learn about tobacco and tobacco use prevention and control. Includes health issues, reasons to quit, help-a-friend, message boards, and pledge and memorial walls.

Kansas youth speaking out about big tobacco companies; news and information on how tobacco companies target teens, and how teens can fight back.

Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.

CNN report discusses how quickly youth can become addicted, symptoms, and why it's tougher to quit.

In April 2003, 200 teens went to the "belly of the beast" to confront the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris; this is what happened, and how you can be a part of it in 2004.

Smoke-free hangout offers games, message boards, local news for teens, and articles to help teenagers in making smart decisions about drugs, smoking, and alcohol.

A 15-year-old urges people not to smoke and discusses the dangers of smoking.

Spoofs cigarette ads.

Pamphlet available to download, from American Council on Science and Health. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent.

A description of tobacco and the effects of smoking, written by kids for kids.

Provides basic facts about tobacco and smoking. Also includes a look at what kids are doing from coast to coast to promote a smoke-free environment.

Learn about the dangers of tobacco. Includes games, puzzles, coloring pages, and posters. [Requires Shockwave]

University of Miami School of Medicine's Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth. "We want you to see what we see in our hospital patients every day from the use of tobacco". Videos in MTV and science versions; interactive web-based CD-ROM; student and teacher workbooks; images and presentations in Adobe and Powerpoint formats.

Printable tip sheets on everything from the dangers of tobacco to kicking the habit. From the Center for Disease Control.

Anti-smoking group offers a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources.

Health Canada site offering information about what's in cigarettes, facts and figures, and how to quit.

Brief article discusses the increased risk to teens who smoke. Includes changes to genetic material, damage to all smokers and cancer causing chemicals.

Forum for youth to share their thoughts and find out more about the tobacco industry and smoking.

Information on cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. HTML and Flash sections.

Research reports on tobacco industry and marketing to kids bofore and after the Master Settlement Agreement with the states in November 1998.