TEEN ADVOCACY LINKS
Check out these links to National and State advocacy groups fighting Big Tobacco. Join a local chapter of a national group in your state or start up a new chapter at your high school. What you will find is a few states that have started their own anti-tobacco projects. Contact them and see how they got started. Visit the advocacy Websites to find out what these groups do, how they work, and then draw from their experiences to generate bright ideas of your own. You can be the key to unlocking the truth about tobacco in your area! Go for it!!
Local Chapter: FACT - "Fighting Against Corporate Tobacco" youth group. Check them out on Facebook under Fact facts. Join these youth in their fight against Corporate Tobacco companies.
This Website is a resource for young adults, the information provided assists at their level to educate
and help in undertanding about the importance of quitting tobacco or never to start using.
Truth is dedicated to exposing the truth about tobacco so that people can have all of the information
necessary to make up their minds for themselves. Truth links you to news, events, and facts and gives
you ways to spread the truth about the tobacco industry. Galleries lead you to innovative ways to
increase awareness using print, photography, the Web, TV, and radio.
This Website offers quitting tips, tobacco facts, real-life testimonials, and tobacco news, as well as ways
to help your friends, parents, and other adults quit smoking. You can be an activist, too. This site explains
the problem and teaches you how to start a teen anti-smoking and prevention campaign.
Learn facts about smoking and then incorporate them into a song. Find out how other teens got their
song played on the radio, and what they think about tobacco use.
TTAC builds capacity to provide training and technical assistance to increase knowledge and skills, foster
strong leadership, increase organizational support and strengthen partnerships in the field of Tobacco
Prevention and Control. TTAC helps organizations, groups and individuals build leadership, advocacy,
community organizing, planning and management, assessment and evaluation, and
policy/program/treatment interventions skills to effectively carry out tobacco prevention and control
initiatives.
