The Young Person's Cyber-Library of Information on Tobacco
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This Cyber-Library is very much a work in progress. It will provide links to web sites I have found containing text, graphic, audio, video and computer program files relating to tobacco and tobacco-caused health problems that I think are suitable for young people. One great difficulty will be in deciding whether a specific item is useful or appropriate for children of a certain age. As a practicing thoracic surgeon, I have very little practical experience in dealing with young people (other than my own four children). In this regard I will need lots of help and input from teachers, pediatricians, nurses, counselors, authors, publishers of childrens books --and especially from young people as to whether a specific item is too hard to read or is hopelessly uncool! |
You can send me E-mail or The webmaster Steve.
With your help and support this Cyber-Library will grow quickly into a useful resource for children, adolescents and young adults
Safety
- While every effort has been made to ensure that the material viewable here and in pages linked to this Cyber-library is suitable for children and adolescents, it is important that young browsers follow some very important cyber-safety rules! Kehoe and Mixon suggest the following in their excellent book Children and the Internet.
- Don't give out personal information, your name, address, phone number without your parent's or teacher's permission!
- Tell a parent or teacher about new Internet friends!
- Don't arrange face-to-face meetings alone with people you meet on the Internet!
- Don't believe everything you read on the Internet!
- Don't give out your password!
- If something or someone makes you feel bad, tell someone about it!
Nasty Behaviors.
Links
In response to requests for images of diseases causes by tobacco products from young people visiting this site or the Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page at http:/www.smokinglungs.com the author has created a Cyber-Gallery of images of lung cancer and other diseases.
Are you interested in finding out how many people have died as a result of tobacco products this year? You can find out by looking at the Tobacco Death Clock, courtesy of Global Link and the Tobacco Victims Memorial.Entertaining Educational Programs of Massachussets provides age specific educational entertainment programs on "Choice" and other important issues.
The Tale of Samantha the Magenta Skunk A non-smoking campaign produced by professor William Scott, designed for young Elementary school children.
Another smoking Camel, Joe Camel's lesser known brother Joe Chemo can be visited in his hospital bed and in the hallway (Joe2.html) at Adbusters Magazine.
If you would like to understand the current (May 1998) maneuvering going on in Congress over tobacco and public health, visit this page Mr. Camel Goes to Washington.
The tobacco industry is always trying to show famous people smoking to indicate that smoking is glamorous. The truth is more evident at Some of Our Losses where a list of famous people who have been killed by tobacco can be found.
Kids and Smoking Issues NicNet: The Arizona Nicotine and Tobacco Network has published this great web site with numerous images and files for young people. http://tobacco.arizona.edu/
Eric has posted this irreverent and slightly gross quiz for teenagers to help them decide whether they are addicted to cigarettes at Grip Magazine and Voicenet.com
That's pretty gross, but not as gross as this RECIPE FOR A CIGARETTE .
The Master Anti-Smoking Page: Help for Student Research About Smoking has an interesting resource where students can E-mail requests for help with requests for information on specific questions regarding tobacco.
There is a wealth of information on how to stop smoking at The Great American Smokeout Web Page.
References contains some citations of classic journal articles dealing with tobacco and it's causation of human diseases. Much of this material is difficult reading and requires knowledge of chemistry, biology, epidemiology and other advanced information.
President Clinton has designated
the LeskoBrothers"The
vending machine killers. Find out why at their great web site!
Here is another informative web site Cigarettes Delenda Est that provides multiple cartoon images with animation and music to counter cigarette advertising aimed at young people. http://www.ganesha.org/ptb/tobacco.html#carolina
A lot of youngsters are looking for statistical information on cancers. How many cases, changes over time etc.? The best source for this type of information is the annual January issue of CA A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, published by the American Cancer Society and Lippincott Raven and available on the web at http://www.ca-journal.org
This site contains an important April Fools message from the American Lung Association and Public Citizen.
When I was a young person, young people "got involved" and in the process, helped to establish racial equality, stop a war and impeach the president of the United States! Tobacco is a great issue to "get involved" in. The Surgeon General has put together a web page called SGR 4 Kids that is well worth a visit from grammar and high school students who would like to "get involved".
Although I strongly disagree with the National Center for Tobacco-Free Kids, given their poor track record with respect to urging Congress to provide freedom from liability to the tobacco industry, they do have a web page where they honor young people who have "gotten involved" at Youth Award
They also have an outstanding web page on the ABCs of Smoking with lots of pictures of diseases caused by tobacco.
Another great way to "get involved" is to join the Teens as Teachers a project of Americans for Non-smokers Rights.
Teens Against Tobacco Use (T.A.T.U.) is a similar project. Find out more about T.A.T.U. in conversation with Michelle Camozzi at this excellent site
I got some of the great sites linked here, as well as many other interesting items from the fantastic Larry Breed's Tobacco Activism Guide Although this site is not specifically designed for young people, it has a special section where Larry keeps a list of good sites that are.
The state of Florida brings you this innovative Wholetruth web site. Visit there and consider joining the SWAT team.
This program has been so amazingly successful in educating the young people of Florida and in reducing the numbers of young people who start to smoke that tobacco friendly politicians are trying to kill the program. Please write to Governor Bush and tell him not to kill this great program.
Would you be interested to know how many young people began to smoke this year? I think you will be surprised, possibly horrified to find out! Go to the The Center for Disease Control (CDC), CDC has an excellent site for tobacco information for older readers. at http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
If you live in the state of California and need help kicking tobacco addiction, try this site for assistance. No Butts at Youth Media Network or call 1-800-7NOBUTTS.
Although this site doesn't have information on tobacco at this point, it has great information on almost everything else J. B. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper Web Page and it's written by an 11 year old!
If you really want to know what emphysema is all about, visit this powerful web site and let the members of EFFORTS tell you from a personal perspective what it is like to have emphysema. CIGARETTE ANYONE? This is a very interesting concept site, Emphysema Foundation For Our Right To Survive where a group of people suffering from the disease emphysema, caused by cigarette smoking, try to explain to young people, what it is like to have emphysema.
Teenagers, how does it feel to be a target? This web page at Frontline proves that the tobacco industry is stalking you by quoting from internal tobacco company memos. There is also a lot more information about tobacco on the Frontline web site.
The Florida Kids Campaign Against Tobacco is a new site full of information and enjoyment for younger kids.
If you are interested in the anatomy of the organs of the chest that are effected by tobacco, visit this truly awesome, high-tech site. A cyber-atlas of the chest and its structures can be found at the Thorax Splash by D.M. Conley and C. Rosse at the University of Washington.
4H has always been a good friend to young people, but now they are making a very bad decision to cooperate with the enemy. Find out what is going on at Onyx
Would you be interested in playing cards with death? You can do so at
The Center for Disease Control has a web site that will aid your search for information on tobacco and tobacco-caused diseases
Katlyn is a ten year old who has a great web page devoted to telling other young people about her life with her mother, who has severe emphysema caused by cigarettes. Katlyn's Butthead Page.
I get lots of E-mail from young people who want a list of all of the bad things in cigarette smoke. You can find just such a list at this web site, but it is a little complicated. You may have to download and install a plug-in program to let you read the files. The amazing thing is that this list of poisons was compiled by a tobacco company. You can be sure they didn't advertise this information. The truth was dragged out of them during a court trial. Go to the Brown and Williamson site
Brown and Williamson Tobacco and use the search screen provided to find the document entitled "Analysis of Toxic Smoke Constituents" (Bates No. 505106893/6932). Dated September 8, 1992, it is an analysis by the American Health Foundation (a research foundation that appears to have been frequently retained by the tobacco industry). It clearly outlines the most toxic chemicals in both mainstream and sidestream tobacco smoke. This document was discovered by Anne Landman a tobacco control expert in Colorado.
I have found an even better place to find out "what's in cigarette smoke?". This truly awesome web site was put together by Canadian MDs . They also have great pages on why second hand smoke is bad for kids and offer some great advice to parents on "taking their butts outside".
Many people ask why they still got lung cancer even when they stopped smoking many years before. Here is some new information to help answer this question. It is pretty frightening! From the San Francisco Chronicle.
Younger kids can visit GigglePoetry and click on Poetry Contests. There they will find an easy way to write anti-smoking poems so entertaining they'll want to show them to their friends and family. And, they'll learn how to enter our Anti-Smoking Contest.
Anne Landman is a remarkable woman who is proof perfect that the individual can make a difference, even when faced with a giant powerful foe like the tobacco industry. Ms. Landman is exposing tobacco industry duplicity on the local level in her home town by demonstrating how the tobacco industry encourages shoplifting of cigarettes. Sounds over-the-top doesn't it? You won't think so once you have visited her graphic evidence at Big Tobacco's Seldom Told Plan For Our Children She is also active on a national level, in providing a daily E-mail service as well as a remarkable new web page Anne Landman crafted by Scott Goold, that picks a new document from tobacco industry files each day and lays open the lies and concealment to public view. Anne Landman is a remarkable woman who is proof perfect that the individual can make a difference, even when faced with a giant powerful foe like the tobacco industry. If you want primary source documents showing what the tobacco industry really thinks about young people, this is the place to start!
There are dozens of great anti-tobacco cartoons, like the one included here, with his permission, by Turkish cartoonist Kamil Yavuz, at his delightful web site . Goodbye Smoking Hello Life The cartoons on his site are copyright protected.
Allan Rock, Canada's Minister of Health wants to force tobacco companies to put graphic images of disease caused by their products on cigarette packs along with printed information. You can view these images at this terrific web site.
Canada also has put together a terrific interactive resource called "Quit 4 Life" specifically designed to help young people avoid or quit smoking. When you arrive at the Health Canada Tobacco Reduction page just click on the "Q4L" icon.To obtain high resolution
files of the images found there in .EPS format, suitable for graphic
art software use, contact Michèle André by e-mail, or
by telephone at (613) 957-2977. 
If you think that exploitation of children by ruthless industry is a thing of the past, think again. This newspaper article from the Detroit free press tells how a dangerous new form of cigarettes called bidis made in India by child labor are hurting young people in India and in the United States.
The Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids has a great web page called the ABCs of Tobacco that contains lots of good information and pictures of diseases caused by tobacco products in a well constructed, easy to use web page at http://tobaccofreekids.org/abc/
There is an interesting web site produced by a group of pediatricians and teenagers entitled TeenGrowth This web page offers interactive health information specifically designed to meet the needs of young people. They do not yet offer information on tobacco, but they are gearing up to do so.
Scott Goold, Ph.D. of Albuquerque, http://www.infoimagination.org Has written a very clear description of just why nicotine is addictive and how it behaves just like cocaine in our brains. It helps to have some organic chemistry to read this article, but it is so well written that it gets the information accross to persons without a chemistry background. Tobacco Users Are Smokin' Crack.
Professor Scott Plous, is the creator of the Joe Chemo anti-smoking parody of Joe Camel. Joe Chemo
can now be visited at this great new web page at http://www.joechemo.org The quiz on this web page has some mild sexual content that may not be considered suitable for young children by some adults.Asthma is another dangerous disease that may be triggered by tobacco smoke in children and adolescents. Rajeev Venkayya, MD of the University of California San Francisco and the San Francisco General Asthma Clinic has a wonderful narrated asthma "movie" using animated "Flash" technology at www.WhatsAsthma.org. Another plus: the sound is in Spanish or English. Organizations can link to this site, as a free service to healthcare providers and the public. What's Asthma?
There is a magnificent resource on tobacco advertising where Prof. Richard W. Pollay has donated approximately 8,000 slides containing tobacco advertisements, tobacco industry issue ads, and anti-smoking ads to Roswell Park Cancer Institute. 20th Century Tobacco Advertising Collection . Nova has put a very interesting web page on line with fabulous graphics and animations detailing why cigarettes are dangerous, why they are addictive and giving the history of tobacco industry attempts to create a safer cigarette and to conceal their attempts to make a safer cigarette. Search for a Safe CigaretteThere is a terrific new web page with a Tobacco Awareness Video, "THEY'RE RICH, YOU'RE DEAD" as a non-profit community service (i.e. at copying cost). The Video, which is used to implement the University of Miami Medical School Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youth, is available in English, Spanish, and Mandarin in NTSC and PAL formats, can be viewed on their website They're Rich, You're Dead Among the many valuable resources is a "workbook" containing dozens of graphic images of diseases caused by tobacco products that might be disturbing to younger readers.
The World's Fastest Clown has prize winning anti-tobacco cartoons from around the world and many other features. Visit "You are the Target" and view the TAR JAR courtesy of Georgina Lovell.Did you know that Philip Morris is going to change it's name to Altria? This sinister animated film clip from the Tobacco Free Kids tells the real story and allows kids to send Email to the president. ALTRIA Have you ever wondered why there is so much smoking in movies, including movies meant for young people? This new web site at the University of California San Francisco gives all of the very sordid details. Smoke Free Movies There are lots of good resources at the new web page of the British Columbia Youth Tobacco Attack Team . High school athletes should read what Rick Reilly thinks about spit tobacco in this Sport's Illustrated article. It will make you think twice about chewing tobacco.
The World Health Organization has recruited Anti-Smoking Superman
to teach Hong Kong children how to say "No" to cigarettes in a clever animated web page.
Want to know why there are so many people smoking in movies? Visit this great new site put together by MASSPIRG, the Massachusets Public Interest Research Group. Tough on Tobacco
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A few years ago, A Philip Morris executive told his colleagues what he thought of their customers.
"We don't smoke the S**T we just sell it. We reserve the right to
smoke for the young, the poor, the black and the stupid."
Philip Morris executive, from http://www.you-are-the-target.com/
Now Philip Morris says that it has changed it's wicked ways and also changed it's name to Altria this year, saying that it wants to help young people avoid smoking. Do you belive this??
This picture shows an arrogant Philip Morris/Altria stockholder expressing his true attitude and very real contempt for young people demonstrating outside of a PM/Altria stockholders meeting. Photograph courtesy of Reality Check.
To learn more about what teens are saying about Philip Morris and Altria visit this new Essential Action web page.
Young people who would like to help their parents quit smoking now can find lots of great help at a very high quality new web page called C.H.A.M.P.S.S. .
Did you know that states get report cards? The American Lung Association can show you the report card that your elected officials have earned this year. Visit Tobacco Report Card and then send an e-mail or note to your governor telling him what you think of his grades! of your state What a deal! You can download an entire book for free.
Cigarettes: What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You—
Information Tobacco Companies Don't Want Teens to Know About the Dangers of Smoking is available from the American Council on Science and Health at ACSH Books
The same organization has another excellent site for teens at The Scoop on Smoking
Aspire from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center uses great animation, video and interactive features to inform
and entertain teens regarding use of tobacco products. A truly outstanding web page!
Aspire
Southeast Michigan school children created a large collection of counter-advertising art Kids Campaign Against Tobacco that is available on the web, courtesy of the Wayne County Medical Society Foundation, in cooperation with Henry Ford Health System. One drawback; you have to be able to open a .pdf file on your computer. Kids Campaign Against Tobacco
I you would be interested in starting an art contest like this in your school, ask your art teacher to visit the web page of the Southeast Michigan Tobacco Counteradvertising Contest to see how they put this contest together.
