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Links & Resources

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The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids is fighting to free America's youth from tobacco and create a healthier environment. The Campaign is the nation's largest non-governmental initiative ever launched to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to second hand smoke.

Be a part of the annual Kick Butts Day, recognize area youth active in tobacco prevention, understand the current use of tobacco settlement dollars in your state, write your member of Congress, use fact sheets for research, and more. You may also call them at 1 (800) 284-KIDS.

 

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Researching a paper or want information?
Search the tobacco news archives!

www.Tobacco.org This is the best way to quickly and easily get the information you want. At this site you can easily research any tobacco question or issue, because their news database contains summaries of every article concerning tobacco printed in four national US papers: USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post and the New York Times.

On Tobacco.org's home page, on the left pane, scroll down to Archives. Under Archives, click on Search News. There you can search by keyword, date range or category, even going back several years. It's a simple, fast and very powerful research tool. Originated by Washington DC's venerable Advocacy Institute, the tobacco news is presently produced by Washington DC's American Legacy Foundation, which is the national foundation created with just under 1% of the funds from the settlement of the States' lawsuits against the tobacco industry.

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You can personalize your news bulletins to show only the tobacco subjects you want. For example, you can just view today's major headlines. Or, you can also add in tobacco news from your state. This will insure you are not overwhelmed with news from all 50 states!

If you like, you can also view the daily news on specific topics -- such as cessation, secondhand smoke, the lawsuits, and more. To view today's tobacco news, visit the My News link at www.tobacco.org.

Want International news?

If you are more interested in international tobacco news, please see INTERNATIONAL TOBACCO CONTROL, below. There is a news bulletin service there for international tobacco news, which can also be e-mailed to you automatically.

 


A bestselling new
EDUCATIONAL VIDEO
for grades 7 - 12

Students: This video for schools can help prevent other students from starting to smoke. If you wish, you can print out the link below, and hand it to your health teacher.

The Truth About Tobacco

Teens call a magazine ad exec in one of the award-winning anti-tobacco TV spots illustrating the educational video.

This bestselling new video helps persuade and empower youth to stay tobacco free. It also motivates students to make more responsible choices about drugs and alcohol. One health teacher especially liked "the excellent real-life examples of how to say no to friends who smoke, drink or use drugs."

Motivational speaker Patrick Reynolds hosts the highly rated new educational video for middle schools and high schools. It has been called "a powerful teen smoking prevention video."

In the video, motivational speaker Patrick Reynolds counsels, "Life brings all of us difficult moments and obstacles -- and when these moments come, don't escape by using tobacco, drugs, alcohol, food or even music. Instead, stay with your uncomfortable feelings, and begin to solve the problem. Don't isolate and do this alone. Talk about it to your parents, a trusted teacher, or the school counselor. It's by talking about our difficulties to another person that we resolve them. Life gets tough at times, but you can do it!"

"The video completely captivated our 6th, 7th and 8th graders," said one health teacher. "It should be in every high school and middle school library."

The Truth About Tobacco uses satirical posters to make fun of tobacco ads, and then opens students' eyes to how tobacco advertising manipulates many teens. It warns about the power of nicotine addiction, and is critical of movie stars who make smoking look cool on screen.

Students watching the new educational video "sat spellbound," according to one school principal. Students: Click on this photo for information on this video -- then print it out, and hand it to your health teacher!

Health teachers and School District officials have high praise for the new video. "Motivating, educational and informative, with powerful images!" "A must for all teens!" "Completely captivated our 6th, 7th and 8th graders." "The kids were spellbound."

Students: Click here, print out the page, and hand it in to your health teacher!

"The Truth About Tobacco is a powerful mix of great TV spots, live talk, photos, film clips and excellent graphics," commented Linda Currier, a Safe and Drug Free Schools official in Fort Worth, Texas. "This video was so effective, we're buying one for every school in our district. It will be an important part of our new tobacco education campaign. It should be in every middle and high school library."

Click here for more information:
The Truth About Tobacco


 

 

FIGHT BACK!

www.smokescreen.org provides an easy way for you to fight back in the most effective way known -- speaking up to lawmakers. Two or three mouse clicks on their E-Z letters page sends an e-mail in your name to lobby U.S. lawmakers on the most pressing tobacco issues of the moment. Simply click on the issue you care about most, and you'll instantly get a draft of a suggested text (which you can easily modify). Click again and it goes off to exactly the right lawmaker -- because when you first register (this is optional), you type in your zip code. This automatically routes all your future e-mail to your own Congressperson or Senator. This site even tackles current local issues in your city or State.

 

Another great research resource is the University of California San Francisco's Galen II Knowledge Management Library. The following link takes you to a list of scholarly (but easy to comprehend) research on numerous tobacco issues, including the effect of the tobacco industry's campaign contributions on politicians in several States. This is a most impressive and invaluable research resource.

www.library.ucsf.edu/kr/bin/showByTopic.pl?Tobacco/Nicotine/Smoking-Publications


 

Joe Chemo gets laughs!

Download this photo or send for a poster.

Download a large file of this image of Joe, and other cool art, from our sister site for youth, Notobacco.org. You'll find this image on our Cool Photos page. The Vancouver-based magazine ADBUSTERS created several hilarious and insightful ads satirizing tobacco advertising. Visit The Media Foundation to see more of their truly ingenious and cutting spoof ads, and to explore the anti-consumerism philosophy which created them. To order a full size Joe Chemo poster or postcards of their ads, call them directly at (800) 663-1243. Prices are very reasonable -- and do ask about an ADBUSTERS magazine subscription. To hear Joe's last words, click here.




Smoking in TV and Films

For a great overview of this issue, go to www.tobaccofree.org/children.html and scroll all the way down to the red title near the end of the page, SMOKING IN TV AND FILMS. There you'll find an excellent description of the problem, and actions you can take to make a difference. Phillip Morris placed its products in -- astoundingly -- Who Framed Roger Rabbit? and The Muppet Movie!

An incisive report on the recent increase in smoking in films may be found at our URL, www.tobaccofree.org/films.html. The report was issued in March, 1998, by Stan Glantz and his team at the University of California, San Francisco.


FROM PITCHMAN TO HERO: Pierce Brosnan's old Lark ad, and his trailblazing new promise not to smoke in films

This old ad for Lark cigarettes with Pierce Brosnan was seen in Japan. But Brosnan saw the light, and has since shown tremendous leadership in the Hollywood community by forswearing smoking in his films. He has now set a great example for other stars.


Charlie Sheen's ad for Parliament also ran in Japan. Will Mr. Sheen will follow Pierce Brosnan's lead and promise not to glamorize smoking in his films?

If you just want to find out how much smoking there is in a particular film, whether current releases or past, go to www.screenit.com. They also rate films for violence, language, and much more. The well-known movie critic Roger Ebert named ScreenIt as one of the Top Five Most Useful Movie Sites on the Internet. You can actually go to a review of any film at the site and check out the smoking rating for that movie.


INTERNATIONAL
TOBACCO CONTROL

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GLOBALink is the International Tobacco-Control Network. Operated by the International Union Against Cancer, Globalink relays information and discussions on international tobacco-control developments, including news articles, analysis, updates on U.S. developments, and reports from tobacco control advocates around the world. More information is available from http://www.globalink.org/globdemo/.

A selection of GLOBALink News Bulletins and resources is available on http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/ Access is free of charge, but password protected. To join GLOBALink, visit: http://join.globalink.org/ or email hq@globalink.org.

Another great resource is Robert Weissman's mailing list. To subscribe, send an e-mail message to listproc@essential.org with the following all in one line: subscribe intl-tobacco <your name> Put this line in both the subject and in the text of your e-mail message. You may also e-mail, write or telephone the following to receive it: ASH, 6 Fitzhardinge Street, London W1H 9PL UK Tel: 0171-224 0743 Fax: 0171-224 0471
(Ask your long distance carrier's operator for the new London area codes, as they recently changed.)

www.prevention.ch is overseen by Jean Charles Rielle, a leading Swiss tobaccofree activist. Mostly in French, the site offers links to top international tobacco control resources.



Courtesy of The American Cancer Society

Chewing Tobacco

The best website on chewing tobacco is www.patchproject.org -- check it out. It includes terrific quitting tips and a ton of truly horrendous photos of disease caused by dip. Here at Tobaccofree.org, we include an great section on chewing tobacco, on our Message to Youth page. We discuss how countertop displays have deceived teens into believing chewing tobacco is a popular product, and reveal that the tobacco industry pays convenience stores and markets up to $40 per month to place those displays on countertops -- whether or not the products are really selling. At this page, we also tell the moving story of Sean Marsee, a high school athlete who had won 28 medals in track competitions. He chewed tobacco and, with his athletic prowess and excellent health, never thought he could get cancer. But he did, and he then endured three operations, which first removed his tongue, and finally half of his jaw and neck muscles. Sean died at age 19, sad and disfigured, and in unspeakable pain. These photos are his legacy and his gift to those who are experimenting with, or already addicted to, these deadly products. For Sean's story, see our Message to Youth page.




Sean Marsee at age 17


At age 19, just prior to his death

Photos courtesy of The American Cancer Society

 


Quitting Resources

The Mayo Clinic has a great Quit Smoking page. It's on the web at http://www.mayo.edu/ndc/index.html. This page offers an array of truly excellent tips for quitting, backed by plenty of scientific research. There's info about the patch, the anti-depressant Zyban, and more. Check it out! If your budget can handle it, they even offer a superb 8 day in-patient quit program (Friday to Friday). Measured against the medical bills, lost time and heartache brought on by smoking-caused disease, the price may not seem high at all. Either way, this site offers great tips and information on how to quit.

Here at our site, check out our insightful Quitting Tips. Unlike many programs, we put a unique and very strong emphasis on preparing quitters for the period to come, one to six months after quitting, when the urge to smoke has largely died down.

We think it's vital to read our brief insight about this. Why? Because this is the time when most smokers light up again and get re-addicted.

This short bit of education will help empower quitters to avoid this extremely common pitfall along the path to becoming a nonsmoker. Forewarned is forearmed!

At our Quitting Tips page, you'll also learn the classic, boilerplate concepts found in the best quit smoking programs, and you'll read about and see links to several of the best, proven smoking cessation programs.

You may think you don't need a program, but a recent CDC study shows that without using a program, quitters have a 95% chance of failure!

The study notes that users of the nicotine patch have a 16% success rate, and users of the anti-depressant Zyban have a 30% success rate. In a separate study, one doctor used both simultaneously, and claimed a better than 35% success rate. These studies still need to be confirmed by independent, duplicate studies.

Even with Zyban, users still have a 70% failure rate -- so this is not simply a matter of taking a magic pill or wearing a patch. There are several important additional techniques for quitters to know about, plus their own willpower.

Here's a thought about using a program: the fact is, people who succeed in life tend to get help. For example, a successful businessperson gets lots of help -- a lawyer to write the contracts, an ad agency to handle the advertising, an accountant to do the accounting, and so on. So people who succeed in reaching their goals get help, and plenty of it. Yes, real men do ask directions! And good students ask questions.

So check out our free Quitting Tips and learn a little more about the basics of quitting. We also point you to several good programs out there. We promise you that this page will be an invaluable tool, empowering you, and helping you learn just a bit more about quitting successfully.

 



1-800- NOBUTTS
(California only, because of State grant restrictions)

A great -- and fun -- new website and phone line to help you out, if you're ready to quit smoking or even just thinking about it. There's lots of free stuff, and there are animations at the site -- but they can only send you the free stuff and accept 800-number calls if you live in California, because of limitations on their grant funding. But even if you're not from California, this website -- www.nobutts.ucsd.edu -- is still a lot of fun!

 

Also check out these
cool youth Quit Smoking sites



get outraged

http://www.getoutraged.com

If you are angry about tobacco use, here is great way to make your feelings heard. This site has way cool graphics and design, and at the What Can I Do link, you can make a difference in a few seconds.

 

http://www.quit4life.com

Follow the stories of four young people as they try to kick their habit in "Quit 4 Life," a unique interactive site that offers important advice for those trying to quit smoking. This is a very cool site, in the extreme.

 

http://www.questionit.com

The opening animated page says it all -- YOU are a target. But your mind is a weapon. "Question It" provides tips to help smokers win their personal battle against tobacco.
Their Kickin' Tipsare truly excellent.

 

http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/024nicotine/index.html

The Nicotine Junkies investigate the effects of nicotine on the body while offering tips on how to win the war against tobacco.


WhyQuit.com

Brace yourself, and then check out this incredibly moving photo of a 34 year old man dying from smoking-caused lung cancer, posted at this excellent site. In this powerful photo, published in the St Petersberg (Florida) Times, Brian Lee Curtis is gravely ill. His wife cries during her bedside vigil, as she holds their young son in her arms. WhyQuit.com is a great site, full of reasons to avoid starting to smoke.

 


FAQs

What can I do if someone I love smokes?

The best way to ask loved ones to quit will be found on this site's Message to Youth page, a little more than half way down the page, under the title in red, What Can I Do If My Parents Smoke? We strongly suggest that you not nag loved ones every day, or even every month, to stop. Ask them gently and briefly, no more than three or four times a year.

However, you may speak up as often as you like about second hand smoke.

Nagging a loved one about their addiction will probably make them angry, and further entrench them in their habit, as a way of expressing their anger (if a foolish way!) Remember, when you're angry, speak up about it, instead of hurting yourself out of your anger.

Second hand smoke poisons you, and that is your business. In conclusion, there's an important difference between nagging someone about their smoking habit, and speaking up about air that harms you. Ask smokers in your home to take it outdoors, no matter what!

What parents can do to help
prevent their kids from starting

In our Message to Youth, a little more than halfway down the page, there's also a boxed message titled What Parents Can Do. It suggests what parents can do to get their children to remain smokefree.

How do I ask a parent or friend not to smoke?

You'll find a very specific answer to this on our Message to Youth page. It's very near the top of the page; look for a title in red that says, If Cigarette Ads Told the Truth About Smoking. Right under the Utter FOOL poster is the answer.

This info is useful for more than saying no to tobacco. You can use this formula for just about anything you wish to say no to. Check it out!


Smoking Poll

Participate in one of our brief polls about smoking. When you're done, check out the results, and see how your experience and opinions compare to others who live in the city you're in, and to the rest of the world.


 

 

The Center for Disease Control's Tobacco Information and Source Page is put out by the Office on Smoking and Health.

 

 


DOC (Doctors Ought to Care) is a national organization of doctors with 139 chapters nationwide. Their archive of tobacco related articles, old cigarette ads from every decade, and more is a phenomenon. One of their methods to to attack the tobacco industry using humor -- and some of their ads satirizing tobacco use are hilarious. Their internet address is http://www.bcm.tmc.edu/doc.

 

THE FOUNDATION FOR A SMOKEFREE AMERICA is growing fast. It was founded in 1989 by Patrick Reynolds, the tobacco-free advocate and motivational speaker, and its mission is to educate people of all ages about smoking and tobacco. Its goals are to establish in-house programs to fight tobacco use at the local, regional and national levels; to educate children through smoking prevention activities; and to enact peer teaching programs designed to empower youth to defend themselves against the onslaught of cigarette advertising and peer pressure. At present, the organization is seeking grants to implement its programs. Founder Patrick Reynolds' motivational talk titled Message to Youth has had impact on many thousands of middle school students and teens.

 

 


Americans for Nonsmokers' Rights is actively lobbying for clean indoor air for everyone. They're an eminently worthy group, and past president Mark Pertschuk and longtime helmswoman Julia Carol are stalwart pioneers whose leadership was and is a major force in the battle to pass clean indoor air laws around the nation, educate children and youth about smoking and spit tobacco, and much more. Support their group with whatever membership level you can afford, and receive their excellent newsletter. Their web address is http://www.no-smoke.org.

 

 

The corporate watchdog group INFACT has been waging a campaign against the tobacco industry.

The group's webpage address is http://www.boutell.com/infact/.

ASH is devoted to protecting the health of nonsmokers as well as their rights, and to taking legal action against smoking in the workplace and much, much more. They can be found on the net at http://ash.org/

NO BUTTS, NO LITTER, PLEASE!

Nobutz.com is a resource for anyone who's tired of seeing cigarette butts littering up the sidewalk and landscape. In addition, there you can buy hats and T-shirts with various no butz messages.


At this new site you can create a free web page giving voice to your feelings. Then register your page with the major search engines and news groups, so lots of people will get your message.

The Tale of Samantha Skunk

www.unh.edu/skat
For kindergarten through 2nd grade

This excellent do-it-yourself program captivates kids. "The tale of Samantha Skunk: Why Smoking Stinks" is a program that brings peer student leaders to classrooms as lovable magenta skunks. They connect with the children by reading to them from a jumbo-sized book, dressed as Samantha Skunk. This unique program is one of the first to bring preschool and primary school children an anti-smoking message they can easily remember. Samantha's creator Bill Scott will provide the purple skunk costume, and an oversized book and tape to train the young presenters. The costume and materials can be rented for two weeks for $200, or purchased outright for $1000.

 

More Cool Youth Sites

WWW.WHOLETRUTH.COM

This site is ultra cool -- it was based on input from teens, and is one of the hippest sites on the entire web. Check it out.

 

TEAM.STATE.FL.US

Another very cool site, related to wholetruth.com. This page offers links to other great sites for youth.

 

WWW.NOTOBACCO.ORG

This is our sister site. It's a new website specifically for youth, sponsored by The Foundation for a Smokefree America.

 

Tips for Teens and two anti-smoking pages sponsored by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, present important facts, fun activities, a message from the Surgeon General and an interview with Boyz II Men on their campaign to put an end to teen smoking. The url's are http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/tipskids.htm and http://www.cdc.gov/nccdphp/osh/tipsteen.htm.

 

http://www.costkids.org/

Children Opposed to Smoking Tobacco

 

http://www.lungusa.org/

An in-depth site from the American Lung Association, featuring "Smoke Free Class of 2000," where students can get information they need to take a stand on the tobacco issue.

 

www.youthtobacco.com

Here's a great online source for tobacco intervention and cessation programs for teens. Their tobacco intervention and cessation curricula meets CDC guidelines, is research based, and is award winning.

Activist Jack Cannon's website, Tobacco Industry Information, has links to lots of great web pages, all related to tobacco issues. You'll find up-to-the-minute information on current tobacco stories, plenty of photos and art, and much more. The actual address is: http://www.gate.net/~jcannon/tobacco.html#top


 

 

 

CIGARETTES, CIGARETTES
The Dirty Rotten Truth About Tobacco

THIS LANDMARK BOOK for the very young communicates, in a colorful and compelling way, the dangers of cigarette smoking and tobacco addiction. It bares the truth about things children will never see in cigarette and tobacco ads, and sheds light on the people who make it all possible--the tobacco companies and the government. (From Foreword by Patrick Reynolds)

Get the Gear...

State of Health Products has a great array of award winning, ultra cool anti-tobacco ID Tags, t-shirts, posters, mouse pads, lanyards, buttons, magnets, gifts and more. Check it out!

 

Lawsuits Recently we’ve seen multi-million dollar awards to single smokers, a $200 billion settlement with 46 States, and a new Federal lawsuit under consideration. Key question: shouldn't smokers be accountable for the disease they bring on themselves by smoking? Tobaccofree.Org believes that the tobacco industry should also be held accountable for its portion of the responsibility. Even before the damaging documents provided by the whistleblowers came to light, one court held the smoker 60% responsible and the tobacco company being sued 40% liable. When solid evidence was introduced that the tobacco industry knew all along that its products were addictive and caused death, and were targeting youth in thier ads, the balance of liability shifted toward Big Tobacco.


The settlement of the States' lawsuits
against Big Tobacco

In April 1999, all outdoor tobacco billboards were taken down for good. By the end of 1999, the use of cartoon characters, and "gear" like T-shirts and hats, were also banned.

While the Settlement Agreement did create a national foundation for tobacco education, only $1.45 billion -- less than 1% of the total -- went into it. The income from it is expected to be about $300 million per year, but the tobacco industry has been spending over $4 billion per year on advertising. So it's critical that the States now allocate funds for tobacco prevention.

Notably, the Settlement prohibits the foundation from using the kind of ads which recent studies proved to be most effective on teens -- those attacking the tobacco industry. But States which legislate a portion of their settlement funds for tobacco education may still run these ads. It's no surprise that the tobacco industry is using is considerable influence on legislators to stop this kind of tobacco education.

Each State's legislature will now decide on its own tobacco prevention allocations. But as of May, 2000, only 8 States have set aside adequate funds for tobacco education, based on a CDC study. Eleven more States have set aside less than an adequate amount, and 31 States have allocated none of their share for tobacco education. A complete description of the tobacco Settlement's points, as well as a current State by State progress report, may be found at http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/reports/settlements/.

The national foundation may make it appear to State legislators as though enough funding was allocated. Also, the tobacco industry has been on an unprecedented and continuing binge of political contributions to politicians. Sadly, this will doubtless prevent many States from allocating funds for strong tobacco education programs. Strong campaign finance reform will do much to correct the problem.

 

 



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Contact: Layne Marie

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