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American Legacy Foundation
The American Legacy Foundation's work to reduce tobacco use among young people includes a major national tobacco youth prevention and education effort known as the truth® campaign. Advertising, grassroots and promotional events, and an interactive Web site give teens the facts about the health effects, social costs and addictiveness of tobacco so they can make informed decisions about tobacco use. In collaboration with the CDC, the American Legacy Foundation developed the National Tobacco Youth Survey to measure the tobacco-related beliefs, attitudes and behavior of youth, and the pro- and anti-tobacco influences to which they are exposed.
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids is one of the nation's largest non-governmental initiatives ever launched to protect children from tobacco addiction and exposure to secondhand smoke. This website provides a wealth of information by way of fact sheets on the latest youth tobacco use trends as well as information on federal, state, and global initiatives aimed at reducing the rate of tobacco use among children and adolescents. The fact sheet series includes what schools can do to help students become or remain tobacco free fact sheet and another fact sheet describes how parents can help keep their kids from becoming addicted smokers
CDC's Healthy Youth! Health Topics on Tobacco Use Web Page
This Centers for Disease and Prevention, Healthy Youth web page contains a wealth of information on tobacco use among youth in the U.S. The website is separated into three sections. One section includes links to, data and statistics rates on youth smoking and tobacco use. The next two sections provide links to information on science based prevention strategies and national and state programs that aim to reduce and prevent tobacco use among young people.
CDC's 2006 National Youth Tobacco Survey
The National Youth Tobacco Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2006, can be used to estimate current use of tobacco products and selected indicators related to tobacco use among U.S. middle school and high school students. The online data can be used to produce national estimates of tobacco use by various demographic characteristics. The data are now available in SAS ® and in Microsoft Access ® formats
CDC, Office on Smoking and Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health offers a variety of useful resources that discuss the rates of tobacco use in the United States as well as tobacco control program guidelines and data. Information is also available for parents, youth, and professionals that serve youth on ways to quit smoking and on avoiding tobacco use. Several key Surgeon General Reports are available for download on this website. Two sections, Tips 4 Youth and Celebrities against Smoking offer links to fun and interactive sites specifically catered toward youth.
NASBE's Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn
The National Association of State Boards of Education's (NASBE's) Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn is series of publications created to assist state and local school policymakers in creating school health policies. Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn is organized around sample policies that reflect best practices, which can be adapted to fit local circumstances. The sample policies are written as statements of best practice that all states, school districts, public schools, and private schools should endeavor to adopt. School health topics covered in the sample policies cover most school health topics including, tobacco use, physical activity, and healthy eating. The points addressed in the policies were suggested by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's school health guidelines, actual state and local policies collected by the NASBE and the National School Boards Association.
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's Model Programs: Effective Substance Abuse and Mental Health Programs for Every Community
The SAMHSA Model Programs featured on this site have been tested in communities, schools, social service organizations, and workplaces across America, and have provided solid proof that they have prevented or reduced substance abuse and other related high-risk behaviors. Programs included have been reviewed by SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence-based Programs and Practices (NREPP). This Web site serves as a comprehensive resource for anyone interested in learning about and/or implementing these programs. To view model tobacco prevention programs, click the tobacco box under the content focus. > Return to Top
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