| Young Smokers Risk Greater Genetic Damage |
Tobacco products cause more lung cancer to smokers who start young, recent research finds; scientists think it may relate to the impact of smoking at an age when the lungs are still developing.
http://news6.thdo.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health/background_bri
efings/smoking/newsid_313000/313203.stm
Provides an online community where you can have fun, interact, and take a stand with others against Big Tobacco.
http://www.standonline.org/
| Tobacco Explained: 3. Marketing to children |
ASH UK Paper. Heavily documented with quotes from the industry's own internal documents, reports on how the tobacco industry promotes cigarettes and smoking to kids.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld3.html
An Ohio State University Extension fact sheet.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/5000/5156.html
| Secret Memos Show Cigarette-maker Targeted teens |
CNN article: "The tobacco industry has been caught in a lie, according to newly unveiled secret memos. They show that R.J. Reynolds, despite past denials, aimed its advertising at
teen-agers".
http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9801/15/tobacco.kid.settlement/
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