Tobacco


Tobacco usage is the leading preventable cause of death. It has been shown to cause lung, throat, and mouth cancer, leukemia, cervical cancer, cataracts, stomach, kidney, and pancreatic cancers. Smokers have bad breath, smelly clothes, lose their ability to taste, and waste thousands of dollars a year on an addiction that slowly kills them. You, as a parent, have the greatest influence over whether or not your child will use tobacco.

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Get Into Your Kids Head          This brochure provides information for parents in helping their children make decisions about smoking.

Tobacco Education and Prevention Source (TIPS)          This article notes what you should know about tobacco and how parents and coaches can help keep kids tobacco-free.

Keeping Your Kids Drug-Free          A how to guide for parents and caregivers from the National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign.

SADD brochure for parents          This brochure is designed to help parents talk to their kids about life decisions, peer pressure, and destructive behavior.

Additional Links:

Kids and Smoking    www.kidshealth.org/parent/positive/talk/smoking.html       This is an article for parents about kids and smoking from the parent section of the KidsHealth website.

Tobacco Information and Prevention Soucre    www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tips_4_youth/prentlnk.htm       The Center for Disease Control and Prevention provides a number of links for parents on preventing youth tobacco use.

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