Homecoming is a fun and exciting time to celebrate the school community between students, parents, faculty, and alumni! As the season comes full swing, so will the parties. As the host of your own children’s homecoming parties, remember to keep …
Alcohol: A Cost To Our Society and Our Youth?
Selling and distributing alcohol is a part of a trillion-dollar industry that continues to be successful due to its mass marketing, affordability, availability, and alcohol becoming a global commodity. However, with this, alcohol has also become the third leading cause …
Why should the media care about underage drinking?
Media plays a key role in providing the community with information, facts, and other pieces of news. Knowing this, a media representative can also play a key role in clarifying public opinion and revealing public knowledge about underage and youth …
Recognize The Signs
It’s 5:00 PM on a Friday evening and you have just gotten home after a long day of dealing with knaggy bosses, lazy coworkers, subordinates that are in complete disarray, or even finally completing one of the biggest projects you …
E-cigs: “Safer” Does Not Mean Safe!
E-cigarettes entered the U.S. marketplace around 2007, and since 2014, they have been the most commonly used tobacco product among U.S. youth. The sharp rise in e-cigarette use has resulted in an increase in overall youth tobacco product use for …
Summer’s Here: Alcohol Vigilance is Especially Important!
Summer is finally here! Many young people sometimes think that the laws and rules they follow in their home towns during the school year don’t apply as much when they are away for the summer–that includes responsible behavior regarding alcohol.…
How Does Alcohol Advertising Really Affect Our Youth?
Ads are everywhere! They’re on TV, websites, within stores/malls, and along the side of the road. Now, they are making their way onto social media platforms, smartphone apps, and games. Just like ads, teens are everywhere, and they are absorbing …
Youth & Tobacco Use – What the CDC Has to Say
“Youth use of tobacco in any form is unsafe,” according to the CDC. Flavorings, packaging, and misconceptions about the safety of vaping have led to an increase in electronic cigarettes among middle and high school students.
To learn more, …
Do You Know about Know!® ?
If not, you are missing out on some great resources that not only cover drugs, alcohol and tobacco, but other issues like peer pressure, bullying, self-image, etc. that teens deal with.
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What Is the Truth about e-cigarettes?
There’s a lot of misconceptions about e-cigarettes and how they can affect our health. What we do know is that e-cigarettes do, in fact, contain nicotine, and nicotine is addictive.
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