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Youth Action Alliances

• exposé: A group of youth in Ottawa unmasking the truth about the tobacco industry.
• HCAAT - the Hamilton Crew For Action Against Tobacco: A group of youth exposing the tobacco industry and their advertising tactics at us, youth, by organizing events in the City of Hamilton.
• Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (KFL&A) Public Health's Take Charge Crew: Go out and Take Charge!

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government websites

• The Smoke-Free Ontario Act: The Ontario Bill that will make all public places smoke-free and that publicly supports all of us here at extinguish!
•  Smoke-FX: This site is designed to talk about reducing tobacco use in teens.
• Ministry of Ontario’s stupid.ca Campaign: Stupid.ca has TV commercials and ads in your favourite Canadian magazines. They show youth how the industry targets us and the effects that smoking can have on us
• Not To Kids Campaign: 29 Public Health Agencies unite together to form the Not to Kids! Coalition.

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canadian community organizations

• Canadian Cancer Society: The Cancer Society talks about how tobacco leads to all different kinds of cancers. They also offer a Smoker’s Helpline: 1-877-513-5333, which is free, confidential, and gives one-on-one help to people who want to quit.
• The Lung Association: More information of lung problems after smoking, and youth-geared campaign called “Second Hand Smoke Blows.”
• Heart & Stroke Foundation: We all know the effects of smoking, but here they talk about how smoking can affect your heart.
• Non-Smokers’ Rights Association: Some smokers argue it’s their right to smoke, but it’s also the non-smokers’ rights to not get second-hand smoke.
• Ontario Campaign Against Tobacco (OCAT): A group of organizations like Cancer Society, Lung Association, Heart & Stroke, all team up to fight tobacco.

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international community organizations

• World Health Organization: Every year, the World Health Organization puts out a theme for World No Tobacco Day on May 31! This year’s theme was “Tobacco: Deadly in Any Form or Disguise.”
• The Truth: This has lots of games, downloads, and a mini-show called “Fair Enough”, where they re-enact tobacco companies’ secret meetings where they target us, youth!
• Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids: A detailed look at American tobacco youth action events, with many event ideas to use at your school. Join Kick Butts Day, on April 5 every year!
• Smoke Free Movies: Find out if how much smoking is actually in your favourite movies!
• Scene Smoking: A complete list of all the top 10 movies and older movies saying how much smoking is in it!
• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: More information from the American organization about tobacco.
• Teen Quit: This links to all American campaigns and anti-tobacco industry groups.

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