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Accepting Funds from the Tobacco Industry. CDC Guidance for Collaboration with the Private Sector. This document provides guidance for schools and communities to consider prior to establishing partnerships with the private sector and accepting money directly from the tobacco industry to implement youth tobacco prevention programs.
Best Practices for Comprehensive Tobacco Control Programs. This publication was designed to help states plan and establish effective tobacco control programs to prevent and reduce tobacco use, including among school age youth.
Facts on Sports and Smokefree Youth Including Special Benefits for Girls. This fact sheet provides data on the relationship between sports participation and smoking among youth.
Guidelines for School Health Programs to Prevent Tobacco Use and Addiction [pdf 230K]. These guidelines identify strategies for schools that are most likely to be effective in preventing tobacco use and addiction among young people.
Health Effects of Smoking Among Young People. This fact sheet identifies short and long-term effects of smoking.
Media Sharp. This kit is an important new tool to help middle- and high school youth evaluate media messages and make healthy, life-saving choices. CDC’s MediaSharpSM kit includes an entertaining 7-minute video and an easy-to-follow teacher’s guide loaded with activities, handouts, and discussion topics.
School Health Index: a Self-Assessment and Planning Guide. This tool enables schools to identify the strengths and weaknesses of tobacco use prevention policies and programs and develop an action plan for improvement.
SHPPS Fact Sheet on Tobacco-Use Prevention. This fact sheet provides detailed results from CDC’s School Health Policy and Programs Study (SHPPS) 2000.
Smoke Screeners. This educational program helps teach media literacy skills to young people, empowering them to make informed decisions about smoking and chewing tobacco by improving their ability to critically analyze the messages they receive about tobacco use in movies and on television. The program includes a moderator's guide and video, and can be used in either a classroom or youth group setting.
Taking Action against Second-hand Smoke. This toolkit is designed to provide communities with tools to reduce secondhand smoke in work and other public places. It includes action steps for successfully implementing a clean indoor air policy, materials that can be reproduced for local campaigns, and an extensive Resources section for more information.
Ten Strategies for Promoting Physical Activity, Healthy Eating, and a Tobacco-Free Lifestyle Through School Health Programs [pdf 60K]. This publication identifies actions that schools can take to implement CDC’s school health guidelines in these content areas.
Tobacco-Free Sports. These publications include materials to help coaches, school administrators, and state and local health departments promote the importance of choosing an active and tobacco-free lifestyle.
United States—National Youth Tobacco Survey—Fact Sheet [pdf 20K]. This fact sheet includes data on the prevalence of cigarette and other tobacco use as well as information on five determinants of tobacco use: access/availability and price, environmental tobacco smoke exposure (ETS), cessation, media and advertising, and school curriculum.
Youth Smoking, Health, and Performance. This document provides information on the health effects of smoking and its impact on a youth’s performance.
Youth Tobacco Survey [pdf 20K]. The Youth Tobacco Survey is intended to enhance the capacity of states to design, implement, and evaluate comprehensive tobacco control programs.
Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People: A Report of the Surgeon General. This 1994 Surgeon General's report on smoking and health was the first in this series to focus on young people. It underscores the seriousness of tobacco use, its relationship to other adolescent problem behaviors, and the responsibility of all citizens to protect the health of our children.
Reducing Tobacco Use: A Report of the Surgeon General. This Surgeon General’s report provides a composite review of the various methods to reduce and prevent tobacco use, and offers a science-based blueprint for achieving Healthy People 2010 objectives to reduce tobacco use and its impact on health.
Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Clinical Practice Guidelines. Developed by the Office of the Surgeon General, these guidelines provide evidence-based recommendations regarding clinical and systems interventions that will increase the likelihood of successful quitting.
Better Practices for Youth Tobacco Cessation: Evidence of Review Panel. This article in the American Journal of Health Behavior offers programmers, policymakers, and researchers a scientific basis for developing and selecting smoking cessation treatments for adolescents.
Fit, Healthy, and Ready to Learn: A School Health Policy Guide. Produced by the National State Boards of Education (NASBE), this document provides direction to states, school districts, and individual schools on establishing an overall policy framework for school health programs and specific policies on promoting a tobacco-free lifestyle among young people.
Growing Up Tobacco-Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths. Produced by the Institute of Medicine, this report makes specific policy recommendations regarding tobacco advertising and promotion, access issues, licensure, and excise taxes.
Recommendations and Guidance for Practice in Youth Tobacco Cessation. This article in a special issue of the American Journal of Health Behavior on youth cessation summarizes recommendations from Youth Tobacco Cessation: a Guide for Making Informed Decisions to assist in considering, selecting, implementing, and evaluating youth cessation interventions.
Recommendations of the Task Force on Community Preventive Service. These recommendations provide a systematic review of the effectiveness of selected population-based interventions designed to prevent and control tobacco use.
Allen JA, Vallone D, Haviland ML, Healton C, Davis KC, Farrelly MC, et al. Tobacco use among middle and high school students—United States, 2002 [pdf 270K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2003;52(45):1096–1098.
Alo C, Huang P, McCusker ME. Secondhand smoke exposure among middle and high school students—Texas, 2001 [pdf 210K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2003;52(7):152–154.
Celebucki C, Turner-Bowker DM, Connolly DM, Koh HK, CDC. Bidi use among urban youth—Massachusetts, March-April 1999 [pdf 320K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1999;48(36):796–799.
Barker D, CDC. Changes in the cigarette brand preferences of adolescent smokers—United States, 1989–1993 [pdf 570K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1994;43(32):577–581.
CDC. Cigarette use among high school students—United States, 1991-2003 [pdf 350K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2004;53(23):499-502.
Kaufman NJ, Emont SL, Trimble CR, Orleans CT, Briton N, Clark T, Krakow M, Celebucki C, Cullen D, Connolly G, Hyland A, Perla J, Cummings KM, Abdella A, Tippens K, CDC. Cigar smoking among teenagers—United States, Massachusetts, and New York, 1996 [pdf 300K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1997;46(20):433–439.
Rohde K, Pizacani B, Stark M, Pietrukowicz M, Mosbaek C, Romoli C, Kohn M, Moore J, CDC. Effectiveness of school-based programs as a component of a statewide tobacco control initiative—Oregon, 1999–2000 [pdf 140K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2001;50(31):663–666.
CDC. Projected smoking related deaths among youth—United States pdf 280K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1996; 45(44):971–974.
CDC. Selected cigarette smoking initiation and quitting behaviors among high school students—United States, 1997 (pdf 300K). Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1998;47(19):386–389.
Barker D, CDC. Reasons for tobacco use and symptoms of nicotine withdrawal among adolescent and young adult tobacco users—United States, 1993 [pdf 340K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1994;43(41):745–750.
CDC. Tobacco use and usual source of cigarettes among high school students—United States, 1995 [pdf 240K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 1996;45(20):413–418.
CDC. Trends in cigarette smoking among high school students—United States, 1991–2001 [pdf 660K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2002;51(19):409–412.
CDC. Youth Tobacco Surveillance—United States, 2000 [pdf 410K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2001;50(SS04):1–84.
Crossett LS, Everett SA, Brener ND, Fishman JA, Pechacek TF. Measuring adherence to the CDC guidelines for school health programs to prevent tobacco use and addiction. Journal of Health Education 1999;30(5):S4–S11.
Everett SA, Husten CG, Kann LK, Warren CW, Sharp D, Crossett LS. Smoking initiation and smoking patterns among U.S. college students. Journal of American College Health 1999;48(2):55–60.
Everett SA, Malarcher AM, Sharp DJ, Husten CG, Giovino GA. Relationship between cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and cigar use, and other health risk behaviors among US high school students. Journal of School Health 2000;70(6):234–240.
Everett SA, Warren CW, Sharp D, Kann L, Husten CG, Crossett LS. Initiation of cigarette smoking and subsequent smoking behavior among U.S. high school students. Preventive Medicine 1999;29(5):327–333.
Huang P, Alo C, Satterwhite D, Caraballo R, Pederson L, Zevallos JC. Usual sources of cigarettes for middle and high school students—Texas, 1998–1999 [pdf 280K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2002;51(40):900–901.
Orleans CT, Arkin EB, Backinger CL, Best A, Crossett L,Grossman D et al. The Youth Tobacco Cessation Collaborative and National Blueprint for Action. American Journal of Health Behavior 2003; 27(Supp. 2):S103–S119.
Shaughnessy L, Jones SE. Tobacco, alcohol and other drug use among high school students in Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded schools—United States, 2001 [pdf 500K]. Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report 2003;52(44):1070–1072.
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