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Smoking Prevention Resources

High school students  Get students the facts they need to make healthy decisions. This collection of smoking-prevention lessons, printables, references, and Web resources will help students understand the harmful effects of smoking. The Great American Smokeout is an excellent opportunity to educate your students about cigarettes and addiction. Explore the Surgeon General's warning and start an anti-smoking letter writing campaign with your class. You'll find plenty of resources to help you teach this important topic.

References

The facts of addiction to and effects from smoking are detailed here.

Present this article, which is full of relevant facts pertaining to smoking-related deaths, to teach children about the dangers of smoking.

Programs and methods that help people to quit smoking are explained in this article.

This printable gives the physical, sociological, and emotional characteristics of young smokers.

The effects of tobacco use on the user and nonuser are listed.

Printable Worksheets

Learn about the many harmful effects of smoking with this word search.

Key concepts on the effects of smoking are reviewed in this worksheet.

Students fill in the blanks to review the dangers of smoking.

This worksheet helps students to explore the Surgeon General's warnings on cigarette packs.

Students use vocabulary related to smoking to fill in the blanks in various sentences.

By tallying the cost of buying cigarettes, students will be better able to decide whether to smoke or not.

A diagram of the mouth, nose, and lungs allows students to explore the parts of the body that are threatened by smoking.

Lessons Plans

Increase student awareness of media manipulations in advertising for cigarettes as they create their own honest ads.

Students will explore arguments against smoking and write letters encouraging a friend not to smoke.

Present this lesson plan to help students to understand the effects that smoking has on the smoker and nonsmoker.

Use a lesson that explores the dangers of smoking, related vocabulary, and attitudes about smoking.

Web Resources

This site explores advertising's role in tobacco use.
http://www.tobaccofreekids.org

The personal stories at this site will help students learn about the realities of smoking.
http://www.quit4life.com

Facts about the effects of smoking.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/watch/house/smoking.html

Students can research the connection between smoking and cancer at this American Cancer Society Website.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10.asp

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