- 1978 Lorillard Memo
"The base of our business is the high school student" explains a Lorillard marketing expert in this formerly secret Lorillard memo. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/xgt34c00 - Addicting Kids to Nicotine
Summary of the science on how people get addicted, what nicotine does in the brain. http://www.txtwriter.com/Onscience/Articles/addictingkids.html - ADVANCE for Nurses: Turning the Tide
Trends in teen smoking, campaigns that work, and the industry's counter-attack, from a magazine for nurses. http://www.advancefornurses.com/pastarticles/feb4_02cover.html - Age at Smoking Initiation and Lung Damage
Scientific paper examines the evidence that lung damage is greater and more lasting the younger a person started smoking. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10203280&dopt=Abstract - Blowing Smoke
Blowing Smoke is an anti-tobacco curriculum designed by kids for kids to expose the exaggerated usage of tobacco in current movies. http://www.blowingsmoke.arizona.edu - Educational Support Materials on Cancer
Reports and slide presentations on tobacco industry youth prevention programs, kids and tobacco, and spit tobacco. In Word and PowerPoint format. http://outreach.missouri.edu/hesfn/cancer/ - Health News: Teen Smokers
Consumer Health Interactive article examines the causes of teen smoking, such as tobacco advertising from Lorillard. http://www.principalhealthnews.com/topic/teensmokers - Monitoring the Future: Kids' favorite cigarettes
Just three cigarette brands account for nearly all teen smoking: Marlboro (Philip Morris), Newport (Lorillard), and Camel (RJ Reynolds). These are among the most heavily advertised and promoted cigarette brands, in particular Marlboro, and Marlboro alone accounts for nearly two thirds of teen smoking. http://monitoringthefuture.org/data/cigbrands.html - Parenting of Adolescents
What parents can do to prevent teenage smoking plus fact sheets, statistics and health effects. http://parentingteens.about.com/parenting/parentingteens/library/weekly/aa032801a.htm - R. J. Reynolds Documents on Youth
In its internal memos, RJR discusses the important "14-24 age group"; in public, it says very different things; this article explains. http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/14yrolds.html - Slugfest in the Smoke Ring
Washington Post article describes the approaches of the four major tobacco companies -- Philip Morris, R. J. Reynolds, Brown and Williamson, and Lorillard -- to get younger smokers, and explains why this is so important to the industry. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/tobacco/stories/slugfest.htm - Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet
Facts on tobacco use among children, nicotine and nicotine addiction in children, tobacco-caused disease, questions to ask candidates for public office, children and tobacco advertising. http://www.smokefreekids.com/kidsfact.htm - Smoking and Youth
Transcript of radio program reporting on teen smoking. http://kidshealth.unm.edu/august.htm - Smoking Sucks
Fighting for a smokefree Newfoundland and Labrador. http://www.smokingsucks.nfld.net/ - Smoking: Cutting Through the Hype
Article for teens on smoking and its promotion by the tobacco industry. http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking.html - Speakers Kit: Teens and Tobacco
Slides ready for presentation on tobacco myths and facts, tobacco advertising and promotion, immediate effects of tobacco, rewards of quitting. http://speakerskit.chestnet.org/04/ppt_pages/grab_go/teens/teens_index.htm |