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TEEN ADVOCACY LINKS
Check out these links to National and State advocacy groups fighting Big Tobacco. Join a local chapter of a national group in your state or start up a new chapter at your high school. What you will find is a few states that have started their own anti-tobacco projects. Contact them and see how they got started. Visit the advocacy Websites to find out what these groups do, how they work, and then draw from their experiences to generate bright ideas of your own. You can be the key to unlocking the truth about tobacco in your area! Go for it!!
National Youth Anti-Tobacco Campaigns
Nicotine Free Kids
www.nicotinefreekids.com
This Website offers quitting tips, tobacco facts, real-life testimonials, and tobacco news, as well as ways to help your friends, parents, and other adults quit smoking. You can be an activist, too. This site explains the problem and teaches you how to start a teen anti-smoking and prevention campaign.
Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.)
www.lungusa.org/smokefreeclass/index.html
The T.A.T.U. program uses peer teaching to teach teens about tobacco use and how to become advocates for tobacco-free communities. Get the news on T.A.T.U. projects all over the United States. Find out what's happening with current T.A.T.U. activities and advocacy and get facts about tobacco use and abuse.
The Truth
www.thetruth.com
Truth is dedicated to exposing the truth about tobacco so that people can have
all of the information necessary to make up their minds for themselves. Truth
links you to news, events, and facts and gives you ways to spread the truth
about the tobacco industry. Galleries lead you to innovative ways to increase
awareness using print, photography, the Web, TV, and radio.
Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC)
www.ttac.org
TTAC builds capacity to provide training and technical assistance to increase
knowledge and skills, foster strong leadership, increase organizational support
and strengthen partnerships in the field of Tobacco Prevention and Control.
TTAC helps organizations, groups and individuals build leadership, advocacy,
community organizing, planning and management, assessment and evaluation, and
policy/program/treatment interventions skills to effectively carry out tobacco
prevention and control initiatives.
Voices Against Tobacco
www.VoicesAgainstTobacco.org
www.VoicesAgainstTobacco.org, is a virtual online community that allows everyday people to share their stories about tobacco addiction and disease. Voices Against Tobacco collects stories of mothers, fathers, friends, neighbors and children lost to the dangers of tobacco, as well as of those who continue to struggle with addiction. By sharing these stories Voices Against Tobacco wants to raise awareness about this deadly health issue and by demonstrating why others must act to reduce tobacco's terrible toll.
Why Do You Think
www.whydoyouthink.com
Learn facts about smoking and then incorporate them into a song. Find out how other teens got their song played on the radio, and what they think about tobacco use.
State and Local Youth Coalitions Against Smoking and Tobacco
California -
California Youth Advocacy Network (CYAN)
http://www.ymn.org/cyan/youthcoal.shtml
The Statewide Coalition is a network of youth advocates from around California
that advocate for changing the social norms regarding tobacco.
Colorado -
Get R!EAL (Resist! Expose Advertising Lies!)
www.getrealcolorado.com
Colorado's Get R!EAL movement asks teens to say no to tobacco use and join the effort in the fight against the tobacco industry. Get R!EAL gives you information on how to start a teen coalition in your Colorado community.
Flordia-
Florida Tobacco Control Clearinghouse
www.ftcc.fsu.edu/teensite/main-page.cfm
This site was designed to arm teens with the information needed to fight against Big Tobacco. The Website provides "how-tos" on public speaking and press releases, updates on recent anti-tobacco news, and examples of youth-generated tobacco art, articles, and ads.
Kansas -
Teens Against Smoking in Kansas (TASK)
www.kstask.org
TASK works to inform teens of big tobacco manipulation and further the mission of reducing teen smoking in Kansas.
Massachusetts -
Get Outraged
www.getoutraged.com
This site is provided by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and links to the latest local and national tobacco news. The Website posts tobacco and smoking facts from reliable resources, such as the New England Journal of Medicine, and connects you to national coalitions.
Boston Area Youth Tobacco Action Group (BAYTAG)
www.smokefreecommunity.org/youth.html
BAYTAG is a youth-based, statewide grassroots movement focused on the fight against the tobacco industry. The BAYTAG consists of 12 tobacco youth action programs. The Youth Action Alliances come together in BAYTAG to involve young people in activities that lead to positive social change in our communities.
Mississippi-
Question It
www.questionit.com/qi.php?cat=1
Question It, a program of The Partnership for a Healthy Mississippi, was developed for teens to demonstrate how you can question the motives and influences of others, gather information you need, understand consequences, and make your own decisions about whether or not to use tobacco.
Nebraska -
Nebraska Teen Kick Nicotine
www.kick-ash.com
Designed for teens, this Website gives you information on what the cigarette companies won't tell you, the latest press releases, multimedia anti-tobacco guides to recruit your peers to fight Big Tobacco, and chat rooms where you can talk with other teens supporting the same cause.
Nevada -
XPOZ Youth Coalition
www.xpozcoalition.org
XPOZ members educate other teens about the tobacco industry and create positive messages to stop teen tobacco use.
New Hampshire -
Youth Network Opposing Tobacco (YNOT)
www.nchc-csap.org/ynot_network.html
YNOT is the youth-driven part of the New Hampshire Tobacco (use) Prevention and Control Program and has been in existence for several years. The program seeks to establish a statewide youth movement against tobacco by uniting adults and youth to promote changing the way in which tobacco is promoted and sold.
Ohio -
Stand
Standonline.org
Stand up. Speak out against tobacco. Standonline.org gives tons of information
about Stand and provides the opportunity to get involved in Stand in their Ohio
community through
individualized Stand Team pages. The Stand Team pages allow teams to
post meetings, pictures from recent events and information about their
Team's activities and accomplishments. The site also provides ways for
you to take a stand in your community, games, recent TV ads
(youth speaking out against tobacco use via personal testimonials),
tobacco facts and Stand Movie Reviews (rating the movies not only on
quality, but also on unnecessary use of tobacco).
Pennsylvania -
Teens Kickin' Nicotine (TKN)
http://www.smokefreeyouth.org/index-2.html
TKN is a teen-led, anti-tobacco initiative in Schuylkill County dedicated to raising awareness and preventing tobacco use among our peers. TKN works in partnership with the Schuylkill County Tobacco-Free Youth Coalition in hopes of creating a tobacco-free generation. Members are high school students from schools throughout the county. TKN trains its members to teach younger children about the dangers of tobacco.
Washington -
UnfilteredTV.com
http://www.unfilteredtv.com/flash.html
UnfilteredTV.com is an online destination where teens get real about tobacco.
The primary mission at UnfilteredTV is to give youth the chance to tell us what
it’s to be a huge target for Big Tobacco. What it’s like to have family
or friends who smoke. What it’s like to be addicted to cigarettes. What
it’s like to know it may eventually kill you. And what it’s like to
successfully quit, or help someone else to quit.
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