"Our actions today
determine the fate of our children's tomorrow."
– Rez Seyedin, Founder, Smoke Free Society Education

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Smoking should be a parent’s greatest concern
because it is associated with
other risky behaviors and health dangers.
Call to Parents
Want your kids to stay smoke free?
WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT
Preventing your kids from smoking through high school doubles the chances they won't smoke as adults.

 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation - Washington, DC
On 10th Anniversary of 1998 Tobacco Settlement,
Report Finds Most States Fail To Adequately Fund Tobacco Prevention Programs
November, 2008 - States have spent only 3 percent of tobacco revenues
to reduce tobacco use, report shows. (more)

CDC - Atlanta, Georgia
 Decline in Teen Smoking Hits a Wall!
The campaign to reduce teenagers' smoking has stalled.
This has very negative, long-term implications.
June, 2008 - The newly released data by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention (CDC) show that one of the nation's most-important public health priorities is faltering. The smoking rate among teenagers has shot up to 23%! (more)

University of California, San Francisco
75% of teen films show actors smoking!
Each year over 390,000 teenagers mimic what they see on the big screen
and start lighting up, according to researchers at the University of California, San Francisco. Though all the major studios (except Sony) have made live-action
G and PG movies smoke-free since 2006, the move hasn't cut
the youth smoking rate because teens prefer R-rated movies!

CNN - Atlanta, Georgia
Smoking rate among high school students remains constant
Nearly one in four high school students were smokers last year, a 23% rate
that has not budged in several years, according to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 

University of Indiana, Indiana
People with no risk factors for heart disease
can still experience heart attacks!
"What concerns us is the fact that about half of all non-smoking Americans are regularly exposed to secondhand smoke, even though more than 500 municipalities nationwide have adopted some form of a smoking ban in public places." - Dong-Chul Seo, lead author and assistant professor

PARENTS BE AWARE!
How do underage teens usually get cigarettes?
About 1/3 of students in grades 6-8 usually obtain cigarettes through social sources (borrowed them: 23.3%, got from someone older than 18 years old: 8.8%) . . . (more)

FDA & TOBACCO
FDA chief says regulating tobacco could be harmful!
Proposed law would give agency power to cut cigarette nicotine levels - “We could find ourselves in the conundrum of having made a decision about nicotine only to have made the public health radically worse. And that is not the position FDA is in; we approve products that enhance health, not destroy it,” said Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, a cancer surgeon. Dr. von Eschenbach said repeatedly that the issue of regulating tobacco is a complex one: 
“What I don’t want to see happen is that we are in a position where we are determining that a cigarette is safe.”  (more)

What's the Solution?
The Smoke Free Society Education Center
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