Many additional resources are available for parents and other adults who are concerned about the dangers of tobacco and vaping for youth.
Downloadable Resources
Websites
The Surgeon General’s Report on E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults has a website with helpful information, titled “Know the Risks: E-Cigarettes and Young People”.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website has a section on electronic cigarettes.
The Truth Initiative® is America’s largest non-profit public health organization dedicated to making tobacco use a thing of the past. The Truth Initiative speaks, seeks and spreads the truth about tobacco through education, tobacco-control research and policy studies, community activism and engagement, and innovation in tobacco dependence treatment. The Truth Initiative funds truth, a website that focuses on spreading awareness and inspiring action in the fight to end smoking.
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids (CTFK) offers a wealth of information and advice. CTFK helps change public attitudes and public policies on tobacco and vaping to prevent kids from smoking or vaping, to help them quit, and to protect everyone from secondhand smoke or vape aerosol. CTFK also sponsors Kick Butts Day, a national day to inspire youth to speak up against Big Tobacco, which young people from Massachusetts participate in each year.
Research/Reports
Government agencies and non-profit organizations regularly issue new studies, reports, and information about tobacco and vaping, including the following:
E-Cigarette Use Among Youth and Young Adults: A Report of the Surgeon General—Executive Summary. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, Office on Smoking and Health, 2016.
