Tools for Preventing Youth Initiation
Facts Sheets
Reports and Surveys
Guides
Break The Chain of Tobacco Addiction
The FDA recently launched the "Break the Chain" campaign to educate retailers and raise awareness about the FDA's new tobacco product regulations that protect youth from the dangers of tobacco use. The website features helpful tools and resources including content syndication (which displays automatically updated FDA tobacco control information on your website), "Break the Chain" posters, flyers, badges, and widgets, as well as a podcast series on retailers and selling tobacco to minors. Visit to learn more, help spread the word, and stay informed.
Campus Quit Kits
Developed by the BACCHUS Network™ , this campus quit kits are perfect to hand out to students thinking about quitting smoking. Inside these boxes are a copy of the Journey of a Lifetime CD-ROM, It's Time To Think About Quitting booklet, information about cessation medication options, a stress relief bendy and a piece of candy for each day of the first week of quitting! An intake form in triplicate is also included to help you track and gather feed back from those students entering the quitting process.
I QUIT! What to do when you're sick of smoking, chewing or dipping
A booklet written for young people to help them quit smoking tobacco or using “spit” tobacco. Cleverly written and illustrated, the booklet was developed by the Anne Arundel County Department of Health in Maryland.
Make Your Mark: Mobilizing Youth Against Tobacco in AAPI Communities
Make Your Mark was developed by APPEAL for youth who are interested in becoming tobacco control advocates, but are not sure where to start. This guide provides an overview of tobacco control issues and their impact on youth and AAPI communities, youth-friendly strategies for community organizing, developing and implementing action plans and getting resources and a toolbox including sample project ideas, an action plan worksheet and helpful internet resources. Please contact APPEAL at appeal@appealforhealth.org to obtain a copy of this pubcliation
MyTobaccoFreeSpace: A place for health
The new BACCHUS 2006 programming manual for the Collegiate Smokeout.
National Youth Advocacy Coalition FREE Resource Guide (2004)
A resource guide for FREE - Friends for Real, Educating and Empowering - which helps train youth LGBTQ peer educators and adult allies to confront Tobacco.
Smoke Free Movies 2008 Advocacy Toolkit
This Toolkit contains several documents designed to help you plan and execute press and grassroots advocacy activities in your community for the Smoke Free Movies 2008 International Week of Action. Activities begin on Monday, February 18 and end on Sunday, February 24,coinciding with the Academy Awards.
Step By Step - Student Tobacco Education Program
The S.T.E.P. by STEP Program is designed by the BACCHUS Network™ to give campuses a comprehensive, month-by-month guide to tobacco control for the college population.
Tobacco: A Cultural Approach to Addiction and Recovery for Aboriginal Youth
Created by Aboriginal youth, for Aboriginal youth, this manual appraoches the process of recovery as a healing journey towards freedom and a respectful relationship towards the sacred use of traditional tobacco.
Youth Empowerment: The Future of Tobacco Control in Action
This Legacy publication features profiles describing strategies that may help others to engage youth in their states and communities. Profiles of teen leaders who spearheaded initiatives show some of the ways in which youth empowerment challenges and inspires young people to do great things. This publication is also available in Spanish.
Program Resources
American Legacy Foundation
The American Legacy Foundation is dedicated to building a world where young people reject tobacco and anyone can quit.
The BACCHUS Network™
A university and community based network focusing on comprehensive health and safety initiatives. It's mission is to actively promote student and young adult based, campus and community-wide leadership on healthy and safe lifestyle decisions concerning alcohol abuse, tobacco use, illegal drug use, unhealthy sexual practices and other high-risk behaviors.
Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids
A youth smoking intervention organization
CDC - Youth Tobacco Prevention Resources (including Fact Sheets, Reports, Tip Sheets, Videos and Posters)
College Tobacco Prevention Resource
The College Tobacco Prevention Resource (CTPR) aims to provide practical information, ideas, and guidance to assist college leaders with planning, implementing, and evaluating effective campus tobacco policies and programs.
Consider Your Source: Menthol
A campaign by the American Legacy Foundation that provides a counter-view to the tobacco industry messages regarding mentholized tobacco products.
Engaging Youth in Policy Change
These archived webinar presentations from APPEAL network members showcase strategies for engaging youth in policy change. APPEAL network members also share components of meaningful youth engagment and youth-led tobacco control intiatives and ways to sustain youth programs long term.
Ignite
Ignite empowers the youth of America to hold the tobacco industry accountable at every level by directing public officials to act responsibly. Ignite engages in local and statewide advocacy for tobacco policy change, pressures politicians to reject campaign contributions from tobacco companies and their interests, informs voters of tobacco issues in key elections, and coordinates national political efforts.
Joe Chemo
This site allows visitors to test their "Tobacco IQ," get a personalized "Smoke-o-Scope," and send free Joe Chemo E-Cards. There is also information for teachers, anti-smoking activists, health care providers, journalists, and smokers who wish to quit.
Kick Butts Day
Kick Butts Day (KBD) is the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids' annual celebration of youth advocacy, leadership and activism. KBD is a day to stand out, speak up and seize control in the fight against tobacco. It is an important opportunity to raise awareness about the tobacco problem and support strong tobacco prevention policies. And don't forget, you can use your KBD materials to plan events and pitch them to the media any time of year.
Our Voices Xposed (OVX)
A youth-led organization dedicated to informing Vermont teens about big tobacco's marketing practices.
My Quit Path
A cessation media campaign sponsored by the State Tobacco Education and Prevention Partnership of the Colorado Department of Public Health. The site encourages young adults on the path to quit by offering a variety of resources and support, including quitline information, tools for learning about tobacco's negative health impacts, as well as tips on quitting.
Raze
In 2002, the West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources and the West Virginia Department of Education started Raze, which has since helped thousands of students decide to stop smoking or never to start. Raze means to tear down or demolish (as in “tear down tobacco lies,” the group’s slogan).
Shards o' Glass
This company markets and sells ice cream popsicle sticks with a secret ingredient - shards of glass. Check out this clever and fun take on cigarette makers.
Smoke Free Movies
A project of Stanton A. Glantz, PhD, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, this project aims to sharply reduce the U.S. film industry's usefulness to Big Tobacco's domestic and global marketing -- a leading cause of disability and premature death. The website features the latest news about smoking in the movies and provides helpful tools for taking action.
Teenquit
Teenquit provides help to teens who want to quit smoking. Its components include online support for teens in their efforts to quit smoking while they participate in the Adolescent Smoking Cessation Escaping Nicotine and Tobacco program (ASCENT), a multifaceted school-based intervention.
truth®
The truth® advertising campaign reaches teens through print, radio, the Internet and television, especially youth-oriented outlets such as MTV, the WB, and UPN. The truth® grassroots initiative gives teens the opportunity to spread the word about Big Tobacco in peer-to-peer settings. The summer grassroots initiative has reached thousands of youth since its inception in 2000.
Tobacco Control Education and Youth Leadership Development Success Story
For the 2008-2009 school year, Comunidades Latinas Unidas en Servicio (CLUES) and Minnesota State University Mankato Center for Latino Affairs built an innovative partnership to create the Latino Students Tobacco Control Program. The program trains Latino students at MSU Mankato to educate their peers and communities on the dangers of tobacco use and exposure to second hand smoke.
Tobacco Control Policy and Advocacy Resource (NEW!)
Developed by the American Academy of Pediatrics Julius B. Richmond Center of Excellence, this interactive web-based tool describes policy strategies that support prevention of youth tobacco initiation, reduction in secondhand smoke exposure, and support for cessation. Pediatricians, other healthcare professionals, and other advocates who are interested in focusing their policy and advocacy efforts on secondhand smoke and tobacco control at the practice, school, community, state, or national levels will discover innovative strategies with this tool.
TobaccofreeU.org
TobaccofreeU.org is the official BACCHUS website devoted to tobacco control with college and university campuses and young adults. You will find information about types of tobacco, policy change, data collection and evaluation, and sample campus and community programs.
Urban Fuel / Smoke Free Vegas
The Clark County Health District (CCHD) located in Las Vegas Nevada serves approximately 70% of the state’s population. There are 159,228 (9.7%) young adults between 18-24 years of age living in Clark County. This website features powerful social branding campaign materials to counter tobacco industry bar and club promotions with positive messages for smokefree lifestyles.
Youth Tobacco Cessation Collborative
The Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative (YTCC) was formed in 1998 to address the gap in knowledge about what cessation strategies are most effective in assisting youth to quit smoking. Collaborative members represent major organizations that fund research, program, and policy initiatives related to controlling youth tobacco use.
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