Youth Tobacco Prevention

The Youth Tobacco Prevention program provides opportunities for youth groups to increase their awareness and involvement in tobacco prevention.

Teens Against Tobacco Use (TATU) is a peer-education program in which middle and high school students are trained to teach other youth about the hazards of tobacco use. Participants learn to be critical viewers of media messages and learn how the tobacco industry manipulates them through advertising. Youth will learn how to become tobacco prevention advocates and present this program to their peers. For further information, please contact (253) 798-4727.

Preventing Youth Access
In Washington, it is illegal to sell tobacco to those under the age of 18. Our county compliance program works with local youth, the Liquor Control Board, local law enforcement agencies and others to ensure that the law is enforced. Making it difficult for young people to obtain tobacco products is one important piece of the Tobacco Prevention and Control Program's efforts to discourage the use of tobacco by young people. The program and its partners work to prevent youth from gaining access to tobacco products by educating retailers and the public about tobacco sales and possession laws and conducting random, undercover checks of tobacco retailers to discourage sales to minors. For more information or to become a youth volunteer, please contact (253) 798-3537.

Tobacco Free Kids Club of Pierce County
This tobacco free curriculum was developed for elementary school teachers to blend with existing health and substance abuse prevention curriculum directed toward changing students' perception and attitudes about tobacco-related issues.