Think you’re not being targeted by big tobacco? Think Again!
Q. Why is big tobacco trying to get youth hooked on tobacco?
A . They need you as replacement smokers for their longtime customers who keep dying on them! And that includes more than 45,000 Canadians who die every year in from smoking related diseases. Check out www.stupid.ca
Q. Why is it that as smoking rates across North America go down, the number of actors and actresses smoking in movies is going up?
A. The tobacco industry pays actors big money to smoke their brands in their movies. It’s a way to advertise and attract youthwho look up to these actors. Check out www.SmokeFreeMovies.ucsf.edu
Q. What can you do to fight back?
A . Put together a radio or video message to let other teens know what is going on so they don’t get sucked in too. Enter the Youth Stomp OutTobacco Media Project being sponsored by the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit and SCASH (Simcoe County Action on Smoking and Health).
It’s time to take a look at what’s really going on. Click the links below to see what other teens and concerned citizens have discovered about the tobacco industry marketing to “hook ‘em  young, hook ‘em for life.”
www.smoke-fx.ca
www.on.lung.ca/nosmoking/youth.html
www.stupid.ca
www.thetruth.com
www.unfilteredfacts.ca
www.SmokeFreeMovies.ucsf.edu
www.smokefreeottawa.com/expose
www.bigtobaccosucks.org
www.tobaccofreekids.org
www.tobaco.aadac.com
www.ntk.ca |
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