The Keeping Kids Smokefree Project is an intervention designed to prevent the uptake of tobacco smoking among young people. We are inviting the students of four South Auckland Intermediate Schools and their parents to take part in a study of the intervention. The project is funded by the Health Research Council of New Zealand and is being carried out by researchers from the Auckland Tobacco Control Research Centre, Tamaki Campus, University of Auckland.

Tobacco smoking is a problem among young people in New Zealand. The purpose of this project is to find out how we can reduce the number of children taking up smoking during their Intermediate school years. We are comparing different schools in South Auckland to see if our intervention works.

To trial an intervention aimed at changing parents smoking behaviour and attitudes in order to reduce uptake of smoking by their Intermediate school aged children.

Over the 3 year term of the intervention, we're going to try to:

- Reduce the number of parents smoking
- Increase the number of smokefree homes
- Reduce the number of children taking up smoking

- Help to stop smoking is available free to parents & school staff.

-A DVD on how to keep children smokefree is available free to parents. Workshops on how to use the DVD will run throughout the year.

- Students' Art Competitions help to develop campaign messages and materials (e.g. Posters and Smokefree home stickers).

- Whanau fun events are run at each school each year.

- Controlled Purchase Operations to catch and stop retailers selling cigarettes to children will be run in the Manurewa/Weymouth Community (see the "Social Supply" section of this website).

- Students and their parents will be surveyed on entry to the study (baseline) and when they leave school (follow-up 2007-2009)