The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center participates in three tobacco information and cessation programs that are especially geared toward school-age students - two that address spit (dipping) tobacco, and one that targets smoking.

Oral Health America's National Spit Tobacco Education Program (NSTEP) was founded in 1994 as an effort to educate the baseball family and the American public about the dangers of smokeless or spit tobacco, and break the long-standing link between this potentially deadly drug and America's pastime. The program's mission is to prevent people, especially young people, from starting to use spit tobacco, and to help all users quit.

The Spit Tobacco Prevention Network (STOPN) is a diverse group of agencies and individuals working together to incorporate spit tobacco initiatives into the activities of their individual organizations. Unique in its design, the Spit Tobacco Prevention Network believes that through integration and collaboration spit tobacco's negative economic impact and adverse effects on Texans' health can be reduced.

Stand Tall Against Tobacco (STAT) is a project of the Texas Medical Association - Student Section (TMA-MSS ) chapter at The Texas A&M University System Health Science Center College of Medicine. Since research shows that tobacco use begins early and substantially increases during the middle school years, STAT provides presentations to seventh-graders, including student assemblies, classroom visits and an area-wide public service announcement contest.