Reality Check: The Truth About Tobacco
Youth-led movement to expose the truth about tobacco so people can make informed decisions about use.

Smoking Stinks
Article explains why smoking and chewing are harmful.

Teenz247
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.

Tobacco Tips 4 Kids
Printable tip sheets on everything from the dangers of tobacco to kicking the habit. From the Center for Disease Control.

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

Recess
A site for kids with information on health, tobacco prevention, and nutrition. From The American Lung Association of South Dakota.

They're Rich, You're Dead
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". Uses RealPlayer for video.

19 year old Sean Marsee's Tobacco Message
High school athlete Sean Marsee's experience with smokeless tobacco and snuff.

Teenage Girls as the Target of the Tobacco Industry
Factsheet from the American Lung Association. How the industry targets girls in its advertising and promotion; what results it has gotten.

Face the Faces
Started in response to a tobacco executive's statement that the people who die each year from tobacco are just "computer-generated numbers", this site shows some of the people who are dead or dying of diseases caused by tobacco.

Maryland Teens Rejecting Abusive Smoking Habits (T.R.A.S.H.)
Statewide initiative comprised of youth coalitions that have taken a stand against tobacco use. Offers a list of events and opportunities to become involved.

4-A-Voice
Designed to give everyone a voice, lets you share your story and see others' stories about what tobacco products did to them and their loved ones.

How Smoking Affects The Way You Look
ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.

In the Mix - Smoking: The Truth Unfiltered
PBS show shows smoking damage to your health right now and in the near future, not just 40 years down the line.

KIISS - Kids Involuntarily Inhaling Secondhand Smoke
Dedicated to eliminating kids' involuntary inhalation of secondhand smoke; features a "Share A Story" section.

Kiss My Ash
A personal account of a writer for an alternative newspaper, who found that he couldn't write articles critical of the tobacco industry as long as the paper was taking tobacco ads.

Memos Highlight Importance Of 'Younger Adult Smokers'
Washington Post article summarizes what the tobacco industry says in its internal memos about getting kids to smoke.

Mind Over Matter - How Nicotine Affects the Brain
How nicotine acts on the brain, and why it's so addictive.

The Badvertising Institute
Spoofs cigarette ads.

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

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

Smoke-FX
Smoke-FX is a portal that helps youth make choices, take charge, and act locally on tobacco control issues. It features information, online activities and links to resources created by Ontario communities.

Tobacco Explained: Marketing to Youth
Heavily documented from the tobacco industry's own internal memos, reports on how the industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to youth.

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

Peers Against Tobacco
For kids, by kids to educate about tobacco and its effects.

Kids Against Tobacco Smoke
UK site features facts about cancer, nicotine and the effect of smoke, firsthand and secondhand, a chance to join the Kids Against Tobacco Smoking campaign, and a message board for kids.

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

Teens Take on Big Tobacco
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.

American Dental Speciality Institute - Tobacco and Dental Health
How smoking can make your teeth fall out.

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

Don't be a Dip
Information for kids about the effects of using spit ("smokeless") tobacco.

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

The Surgeon General's Report for Kids About Smoking
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.

Adbusters Culture Jammers Headquarters
Spoofs of ads, including some highly entertaining looks at cigarette advertising.