Information for professionals

Online resources

• Smoking Cessation Toolkit for Young People (pdf, 2.57 MB)
  this toolkit from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s Smokefree Services provides support for practitioners providing a stop smoking services to young people
• Operation Smoke Storm. This is an innovative web based tool aimed at effectively educating young people on key issues to do with smoking and the tobacco industry.
• Young Scot - information for 11 - 26 year olds.  Good section on smoking and health and section for young  people worried about a parent or carer
• Get the lowdown - your guide to teenage health
• The Link - issue 20 (pdf, 3.17mb)
  This supplement aims to provide you with information about the impact of tobacco on young people and equip you to identify  opportunities to raise the issue of smoking and tobacco use within your work, make connections with relevant youth issues and engage young people's interests.
• Trade Winds: Learning About Tobacco - Interdisciplinary Resource Pack for Primary Schools
  This resource pack was developed as part of the Scottish Government's Equally Well Test Site Area for Tobacco Control in the area of Whitecrook, Clydebank.  The resource pack takes a new approach to tobacco education and extends across all of the curriculum areas and health and wellbeing guidance in Curriculum for Excellence.
• Latest research (updated weekly) - including young people and tobacco
• Tobacco control in Scotland - policy documents
• ASH Scotland information briefings
• Scottish tobacco control legislation

Networking & sharing practice on youth and tobacco issues

• STCA Youth and Tobacco Forum: The Youth and Tobacco Forum is composed of representatives from organisations with a remit for young people's education and well being, and provides an arena in which issues specific to young people and tobacco can be debated and information exchanged

Youth and tobacco information and prevalence

• Young people and tobacco briefing
• Scottish Schools Adolescenet lifestyle and substance use survey (SALSUS)
• ScotPHO Young Adult Smokers in Scotland

Youth action groups/campaigns

• W-WEST (Why Waste Everything Smoking Tobacco?) is Scotland's first pro-choice smoking information movement, led by young people, for young people. The group has a fun interactive website where young people can learn more, leave messages, see facts about smoking and the tobacco industry, find local smoking cessation support and watch smoking-related videos.
  W-WEST are working to raise awareness of how the tobacco industry uses marketing and 'cool' packaging to attract young smokers to their brands. The campaign is entitled 'The Plain Truth' which included a survey aimed at all young people aged 10 - 17, and in return for completing it, young people were offered the chance to enter a prize draw to win an iPod shuffle, X Box or cinema vouchers.  The survey has now been completed and results are currently being analysed.
  W-WEST are planning an event at Hampden Park on Saturday 26th February where you can find out 'The Plain Truth About W-WEST.'   It will be a great day with workshops, games & prizes to be won & it is FREE to come along!  Download the flyer at: www.w-west.org.uk/campaigns-and-events.html or register online to attend at:  www.w-west.org.uk/The-Plain-Truth-Registration-Form.html
• D-MYST is a smokefree movement led by and for young people in Liverpool. D-MYST provides young people with an opportunity to air their views and concerns on tobacco and to take action to de-normalise and de-glamourise smoking by:
  •    raising the issue of the dangers of tobacco and exposure to second-hand smoke amongst other young people
  •    campaigning and promoting smokefree environments for all
  •    campaigning to get rid of smoking and placement of tobacco products in the media that is predominantly targeted at young people.
  •    D-MYST's campaign is pro smokefree, anti-tobacco and not anti-smoker.
  To find out more, access videos and information go to www.d-myst.info
• ATYC The Anti Tobacco Youth Campaign is run by young people for young people. It aims to give young people a voice knowledge and skills to campaign about smoking and other tobacco issues so that young people feel equipped to influence the social, political and economic environment and culture which they live in. www.atyc.roycastle.org