Youth

Each year in Massachusetts, nearly 10,000 young people become new daily smokers. Preventing youth from starting to smoke makes a lot of sense - if no more young people in Massachusetts started smoking, about 117,000 youth alive today would be saved from disability and death caused by tobacco use.

Preventing youth from starting to smoke takes the whole community. Schools, tobacco retailers, other youth, and concerned adults are all part of the solution.

Facts about youth smoking in Massachusetts are available online:

• Trends in Youth Tobacco 1993-2004
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey

See how schools are making an impact

Learn what tobacco retailers are doing to help

Get information about Mass Youth Against Tobacco

See how youth in Massachusetts are fighting Big Tobacco on their own terms. The84.org is a website for youth, by youth that celebrates the fact that most youth in Massachusetts (84%) don't smoke.