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Preventing Youth from Beginning Tobacco Use

Tobacco use, the nation’s number one cause of preventable death, is a childhood-onset disease.  Magazine advertisements, movies, and retail marketing have shaped a youth culture that views tobacco use as glamorous, social, grown-up, and rebellious. 

Fifty children in Washington start using tobacco every day and one-third of them will eventually die from it.

• Making it difficult to get tobacco
  Reducing youth access to tobacco
  

Links to external sites of interest*

• American Legacy Foundation, youth tobacco prevention program

• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids, a comprehensive site describing tobacco industry targeting of youth.

• Tips for Kids, the Centers for Disease Control's youth Web site

• Safe and Drug-Free Schools Program, U.S. Department of Education.  The Federal government's primary program for reducing tobacco use and other forms of abuse through education and prevention activities in schools.

• Start Talking Now, Washington State Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking
   

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 * Links to external resources are provided as a public service for educational purposes only. External links do not imply endorsement by the Washington State Department of Health of any political, commercial, promotional or other proprietary content that may be included in linked Web sites.

Linked external Web pages are routinely monitored by the Department for materials that advocate for political outcomes. If you find any materials on a directly linked Web page that advocates for, or against, any political candidates, ballot measures, or referendums, please contact us immediately so that the link may be promptly removed.

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