Welcome
The Too Smart To Start Web site helps youth, families, educators, and communities prevent underage alcohol use and its related problems. It provides useful programs and strategies, downloadable materials, interactive games and exercises, and other resources to support you in responding to The Surgeon General's Call to Action To Prevent and Reduce Underage Drinking.

Learn about the Too Smart To Start initiative
and how it can help prevent underage drinking where you live.
Town Hall Meetings are taking place across America this year. Many will help mark this year’s Alcohol Awareness Month, observed during April.
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Find out about ways you can help youth stay too smart to start using alcohol. Make underage drinking prevention a priority for your community’s
Red Ribbon Week activities.
Learn about alcohol facts, consequences, and myths.
Games, puzzles, and quizzes explain how alcohol affects the body and youth behavior.