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FACTS & QUITTING TIPS FOR TEENS
Action on Smoking and Health (ASH)
http://ash.org/kids.html
ASH links you to information and majors news surrounding tobacco,
nicotine, second-hand smoke, and your life. Use ASH's search engine
to search for specific teen-related facts.
American Cancer Society
www.cancer.org
This site provides information, news, and research on cancer and possible risk factors such as tobacco use.
American Lung Association
www.lungusa.org
This comprehensive Website provides information about the lungs
and lung disease in all its forms, with special emphasis on asthma,
tobacco control, and environmental health.
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BADvertising
www.badvertising.org
BADvertising counters the seduction of smoking by doctoring up tobacco
ads to make them honest. View the honest ads, send them to your
friends and family, and learn how to make your own honest ads.
Girl Power Locker
www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/bodyfx/tobacco.htm
Find out what tobacco does to a girl's heart, arteries, lungs, mouth, and throat, not to mention your hair, fingernails, clothes, and skin.
I Quit!
www.cdc.gov/tobacco/educational_materials/iquit.pdf
What to do when you're sick of smoking,
chewing, or dipping. Offers suggestions on setting a
quit date, what to do the day you quit, how to handle the "crazies,"
and ways to keep yourself on track.
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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 become smoke-free. You can be an activist, too.
This site explains the problem and teaches you how to start a teen
anti-smoking and prevention campaign.
Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS)
www.cdc.gov/tobacco
TIPS for kids, teens, and adults spotlights new trends in tobacco,
surgeon generals' reports, research and data, means to quit, educational
material, and information on general prevention. Go to the Tips
4 Teens section to learn what celebrities think about tobacco, and
quiz yourself on your tobacco knowledge.
Tobacco Technical Assistance Consortium (TTAC)
www.ttac.org
TTAC builds capacitiy 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.
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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.
Why Do You Think
www.whydoyouthink.com
Learn facts about smoking, 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.
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