Communicating with your kids can be difficult a times; alternative forms of communication, like sending a text message, is a great way to encourage them to remain tobacco-free.

Encourage others to be tobacco free by being tobacco free yourself. Utilize the Activate Me form and the QuitlLine for your support.

Enter your information to help out in your community.

Contact the QuitLine for support in breaking a tobacco habit, or enter your information for a representative to contact you.

Use these resources to teach your child the facts about tobacco as they travel through these teachable moments.

Beginning early is a crucial step in educating your child on tobacco.

Help develop your young child’s identity and encourage them to remain tobacco free.

Fourth to sixth grade is the most formative time to teach your impressionable child about the effects of tobacco.

Educate your child on peer pressure and how to remain tobacco free.

Reinforce to your child the facts that you have taught them about tobacco.

Use these resources to teach your child the facts about tobacco as they travel through these teachable moments. Know the facts about how Big Tobacco works in order to better educate your child.

Big Tobacco uses several deceptive tactics in order to keep legislation in their favor.

Approximately 65% of children reported that they got tobacco from their friends and family.

Big Tobacco produces flavored cigarettes-such as mint and apple-to target kids.

Secondhand smoke can cause cancer, and children exposed to smoke run the same risk of dying as an actual smoker.

More children are choosing to use smokeless tobacco instead of cigarettes, but the affects are just as detrimental.

Hollywood glamorizes smoking-often in films aimed towards children. However, there are several steps that you can take in order fight this trend.