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In our fight to end youth and young adult nicotine addiction, we focus on the issues that matter most. We constantly monitor the latest topics and trends in commercial tobacco and substance use.

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At Truth Initiative, we are committed to a future free from lifelong addiction, fostering healthier lives and a more resilient nation. We are the nation’s largest nonprofit public health organization dedicated to preventing youth and young adult nicotine addiction and empowering quitting for all.

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Get the latest facts and analyses on the most important issues related to smoking, vaping, nicotine and substance use.

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By driving behavior and policy change, we prevent addiction, increase quitting, reduce nicotine dependence, and expand cessation support and access. All backed by rigorous research and evaluation.

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Join us in preventing youth and young adult nicotine addiction and empowering quitting for all. Learn about how you can help create a future free from nicotine addiction through activism, scholarships, studies, and more. Let’s work together.

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Grants and scholarships

​Truth Initiative offers grants and scholarships to support action on the ground, including opportunities for colleges and universities to adopt tobacco/nicotine-free campus policies and for students and young people to take action in their communities. Here are our current opportunities, and remember to check back for more.

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Tobacco/Nicotine-Free College Program

The Truth Initiative Tobacco/Nicotine-Free College Program is offering two-year grants, up to a $20,000 total award, to colleges and universities to support either the adoption or implementation and enforcement of a 100% tobacco/nicotine-free policy and promote quitting. Grantees of the Tobacco/Nicotine-Free College Program receive guidance through webinars, an in-person training, and one-on-one consultations. 

Since 2015, the Tobacco/Nicotine-Free College Program has provided funding to more than 235 colleges, universities, and college systems to adopt and implement 100% tobacco-free policies. Truth Initiative supports students, faculty, and staff in quitting nicotine with EX® Program, a free digital quitting platform developed by Truth Initiative with Mayo Clinic, that can increase odds of quitting by up to 40%. 

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Impact Scholarship

Truth Initiative empowers and enables young people to be change-makers in their communities — but we know not everyone who has the power to make change has the resources. The truth Impact Scholarship is awarding three $5,000 scholarship to three people as a kickstart toward shaping their futures and reaching their goals. Impact Scholarship winners will work with truth to inspire others to take action and be part of our movement of ending tobacco use for good.

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