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Study Suggests Cigarette Companies Target Youth
Summary of recent research.
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/study12-20-99.cfm
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Big Tobacco Up to Old Tricks
USA Today editorial focuses on tobacco industry marketing attractive to teens.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/comment/2001-03-19-edtwof2.htm
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Factsheets: Tobacco Company Marketing to Kids
A dozen factsheets in PDF format on Philip Morris and tobacco industry marketing to kids.
http://tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/index23.shtml
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Marketing Professor Finds Youth More Influenced by Cigarette Advertising Than Adults
Marketing professor finds that teens are more likely to be influenced by strategic tobacco advertising than adults.
http://www.ndsn.org/may96/tobacco.html
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Cigarette Ads - A Promise Broken
Summarizes research showing that tobacco ad spending has not decreased since the tobacco industry agreed to stop targeting youth; examines where the ad budget goes.
http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/smokead.html
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R.J. Reynolds Fined for Ads in Youth Magazines
Washington Post article; a judge found that a major tobacco company violated the terms of the 1998 national tobacco settlement by running magazine cigarette ads aimed at teenagers.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A8888-2002Jun6?language=printer
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UK tobacco firm targets African youth
BAT (British American Tobacco) hands out free cigarettes to teenagers at sports events in Africa, a BBC investigation finds.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/933430.stm
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Why and How the Tobacco Industry Sells Cigarettes to Young Adults
Scientific report examines tobacco industry documents to analyze tobacco industry strategies that encourage smoking by young adults.
http://www.kstask.org/pdf/LingAJPHYoungAdults.pdf
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Addicting the Young
Article on recent tobacco industry tactics to recruit young customers, such as cartoon characters in cigarette ads, rock music promotions, and making cigarettes easily available to youth.
http://multinationalmonitor.org/hyper/issues/1992/01/mm0192_07.html
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Big Bad Wolf Isn't the Only One Puffin'
Study on tobacco use in children's animated feature films finds substantial tobacco use, no showing of consequences, and good characters use as much as bad characters.
http://research.unc.edu/endeavors/fall99/cartoons.htm
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