Tobacco Prevention Sites

Prevention Sites:

• Big Tobacco Sucks - The campaign against transnational tobacco.
• Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids - This site provides great advocacy ideas and examples for youth to initiate.
• Center for Disease Control Smoking and Tobacco - This site has several links for teens and kids. It also has important research, data and report links. In addition, the user can access supplemental CDC publications.
• Corporate Accountability International - Corporate Accountability International, formerly Infact, is a national corporate watchdog organization. Founded in 1977, it is best known for its successful Nestle and GE Boycott Campaigns. It is now organizing the Tobacco Industry Campaign and the Hall of Shame Campaign.
• Get Outraged! - Has interesting facts about tobacco use as well as a place for visitors to voice their own opinions and an area called "What Can I Do?" if visitors are ready to take action. Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Great American Smokeout - American Cancer Society's Great American Smokeout - this site is useful for kids who want to find out more about the smokeout, which falls on the third Thursday of November.
• Lesko Brothers - A great site about two young brothers who campaigned to rid their community of tobacco vending machines.
• Licensed To Kill, Inc! - Humorous but serious website on the absurd rights our government gives to corportations that would never be given to an individual.
• Not For Sale - New Jersey Teen activist site for tobacco prevention.
• OxyGen - Be part of a tobacco free OxyGeneration!
• RAT - Reject All Tobacco - A website for elementary age kids to learn about the unhealthy things tobacco can do. A fun site led by Terrance the R.A.T.
  
• Smoke Free Movies - Philip Morris, RJ Reynolds, Brown and Williamson and other big tobacco companies addict and kill and make billions in profits. This site uncovers that story. Identifies who's responsibl, by name, and shows you how you can stop the U.S. film inductry from doing Big Tobacco's dirty work in the U.S. and around the world.
• Students Working Against Tobacco - Mission statement is "To empower and unite youth to resist and expose big tobacco's lies while changing current attitudes about tobacco!"
• Tar Wars - The mission of Tar Wars is to educate students about being tobacco-free, provide them with the tools to make positive decisions regarding their health, and promote personal responsibility for their well-being.
• TobaccoPedia - This online tobacco information clearinghouse created by The University of Sydney and Globalink contains information about the health effects of smoking and a variety of links to articles and documents.
• Whudafxup - (www.thetruth.com)American Legacy Foundation
  
• Why? Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - Tobacco prevention and facts, a NISE Project funded by NSF (National Science Foundation).