Find Out How to Keep Your Kids Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drug Free
Can educators and community youth leaders help students evaluate and
think about the use of tobacco and alcohol in movies, TV, sports
advertising, and all other media?
Find out why youth consider questions such as: Does smoking in movies
encourage people to smoke? Why are so many sports events connected with beer
advertising? What tactics and technologies do advertisers use? Teach young
people how to create and produce their own media messages.
Do parents matter?
On that hotly debated question, find out why experts answer with a
resounding yes. Find out more about a program that is rich in up-to-date
facts and practical information about communicating and teaching young
people how to make healthy decisions about tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.
Follow the links below to learn more about MediaSharp
and My Kids and how to order these products. Check out our tip
sheets for parents, youth, and coaches. You can easily reproduce these
one-pagers and be a big influence on youth and their decisions regarding
their health.
MediaSharp
Help your kids with today's 3 R's.
Reading, 'Riting & Real Life.
My Kids
Direct involvement in your
children's life is the single
most important step you
can take in helping them
stay substance free.
Tip Sheets
Parents—Help Keep Your Kids Tobacco-Free
Parenting never was easy, and keeping up-to-date with how to relate to
your youngsters today requires steady attention to rapidly changing youthful
activities and interests. This tip sheet suggests ways to enhance your
children’s decision-making skills about tobacco use without turning them
off. This one-pager is an excellent resource for all sorts of groups
including PTAs, scouts, neighborhoods, and any other parent groups. You can
easily reproduce this sheet for group distribution.
What You(th) Should Know about Tobacco
If you are in a youth group, or if you help with a youth group, this tip
sheet is an easy resource to communicate the common sense of avoiding
tobacco use. You can easily reproduce this creatively designed one-pager and
it appeals to the interests of young people without preaching and turning
them off.
Coaches — You Can Influence Youth
This artistic one-pager makes the connection between how tobacco use
affects physical performance and well-being, but it does so in an
entertaining way. If you are a coach, you can have a big influence on
youngsters’ decisions regarding their health. You can easily reproduce this
tip sheet for group distribution.
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