The Truth for Teens
After yesterday’s rant, I thought I’d share some cool online resources to help teens make the decision not to smoke, kick an existing habit and help their friends smarten up about smoking.
thetruth.com is an interesting, edgy site sponsored by the American Legacy Foundation. The site has facts, electronic games and poster downloads that teens can use to become anti-smoking activists and “infect” their friends with the “truth” about tobacco. Don’t miss the television spots.
joechemo.org starring Joe Camel–now Joe Chemo–was developed by Wesleyan University professor, Scott Plaus when his father got smoking-related cancer. Check out the fact sheets, a screensaver, ecard, quiz and quit tips.
badvertising.org invites site visitors to make their own truthful versions of real tobacco ads, download posters and screensavers. Teachers should visit the section for workshop leaders for tips on using BADvertising in the classroom.
Get the down and dirty on Joe Camel in the eye-opening FTC complaint and order against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company.
dontpassgas.org is not specific to teens, but the interactive features, television spots and irreverent approach to protecting people from second-hand smoke should appeal to everyone. By the way, the gas not to be passed are the gasses released by smoking tobacco–just in case you were concerned.
fightwithfact.com is produced, in large part by Wisconsin teens to help their peers understand the many ways the tobacco industry targets teens–and to fight back.
These are marvelous and useful sites. There’s another I’d like to share with you–after I find it! I believe it’s out of the UK or Canada.
Some great work is being done to help educate and protect teens.
January 3rd, 2007 11:58
Susan,
Thank you for this post and all your others — I am also trying to quit (trying out Chantix now) and have just started a blog, Recovery Road under the alias “AddictedtoLife” as the Addiction Center manager, at Revolution Health. Revolution Health is a new venture/health portal started by AOL’s former co-founder, Steve Case, in response to his negative experience trying to find info/support during his brother’s battle with cancer.
I wanted to write to I plan to link to introduce myself as I love your posts (I hope as a brand new blogger, ex IT, to write 1/2 as well). We are also able to extend preview invitations to friends, family and key contacts so I wanted to pass this to you if you’d like to take an advance look: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=KX87I7N4Sv
Out of the starting gate, our site has pulled together many features and resources already existing but existing independently of each other. There are plans for so much more. Please do visit and check out my blog if you want a good laugh — I am blogging about Chantix too though.
Feel free to blog about this and to your friends as well: http://www.revolutionhealth.com/preview?code=KX87I7N4Sv. Just remember this is a preview edition, but the more the merrier, and the more robust the ratings become, the more powerful the site will be for all who visit in the future.
Good luck with your quest to quit and Happy New Year!
- Melodye