Tobacco Use Prevention Multimedia System for Children

Cancer is the second leading killer in the United States. In order to achieve the National Cancer Igoal of 50% reduction in cancer mortality by the year 2000, prevention education will need to be morelicit behavior change from more people. Children and youth are the population which are at the greatobacco use habit. Since tobacco use is a major cause of many cancers, children need information andto help prevent the onset on tobacco use. We will develop and provide full-tested materials to educapreventing tobacco initiation. The specific aim of this phase I is to create and test a prototype inROM. The technical objectives will be to 1) refine the information needs of 10-12 year old childrenprevention, 2) acquire the content materials needed, 3) create a prototype interactive multimedia CDupdate program Targeted to 10-12 year old children, we aim to distribute the final program to schoolservices to 10-12 year old children and the home.