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Tobacco Industry Youth Smoking Prevention Programs: Protecting the Industry and Hurting Tobacco Control
Scientific report analyses the design and use of 14 different tobacco industry youth smoking prevention programs, and concludes they're PR programs that protect industry profits, not kids. In PDF format.
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Tobacco's Youth Anti-smoking Programs Promote the Industry
The tobacco industry's own documents show that most youth smoking prevention programs it has supported are designed to promote tobacco industry political and marketing aims rather than to reduce smoking.
www.bizjournals.com/

Tobacco Industry Anti-Smoking Ads Make Kids Smoke
Research finds that tobacco industry youth smoking ad may actually make teens want to smoke more.y.
preventdisease.com/

Price, Tobacco Control Policies and Youth Smoking
Paper finds that higher cigarette prices and smokefree public places and workplaces are effective in reducing youth smoking; youth access restrictions have little effect.
netec.mcc.ac.uk/

Tobacco Advertising influences adolescents to start smoking
NIH analysis of what caused smoking to increase over the last 70 years.
www.nida.nih.gov/

Designing a Cigarette for the First Time Smoker
Article in scientific journal examines how R. J. Reynolds designed a cigarette to appeal to young starters.
tc.bmjjournals.com/

Tobacco Industry Reviewed Potential Smoking Habits of 5-year-olds
Brown and Williamson Tobacco engaged a marketing research firm to look at the potential smoking habits of children as young as 5, according to internal company documents. A judge said Brown and Williamson "blatantly abused" attorney-client privilege to keep these documents secret.
www.cnn.com/

Tobacco Company's Whines of Protest Prove "Truth" Campaign To Curb Teen Smoking Is Working
American Lung Association denounces Lorillard for threatinging to sue the "truth" anti-tobacco campaign, and says Lorillard is afraid of the truth.
www.lungusa.org/

Influence of Tobacco Marketing and Exposure to Smokers on Adolescent Susceptibility to Smoking
Scientific paper finds cigarette advertising is a stronger influence on teen smoking than other factors.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/

Tobacco Industry Promotion of Cigarettes and Adolescent Smoking
Research measures whether tobacco advertising and promotion increases the likelihood that youths will begin smoking.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/