Teen Health Course 2

Chapter 8: Tobacco

Student Web Activities - Teacher Content

Lesson 3

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1. The three topics they have been investigating are:
   1. International marketing to women and children
   2. The economic impact of tobacco
   3. The use of Western images to sell tobacco products overseas
2. The message is that smoking will make you more popular.
3. As a result of ads targeting youth, 100,000 young people become addicted to tobacco every day.
4. Smoking contributes to poverty, famine, and deforestation because few countries that grow tobacco make much money, land is used to grow tobacco instead of food, and forests are cut down to clear land for growing tobacco.
5. RJ Reynolds arranged a concert by a teen rock star and the price of admission was five empty packages of Winston cigarettes.

Additional Resources for Teachers

Below are some additional resources about tobacco. You might want to have students write letters to their state or federal representatives or try making their own anti-smoking posters.

1. Speak Out: http://smoke-fx.com/speakout/index.html
2. Global Link Tobacco Control: http://www.globalink.org/
3. No Tobacco.org: http://www.anti-smoking.org/children.htm
4. Photo Gallery: http://www.notobacco.org/photos/index.htm

Lesson 5

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1. The addictive chemical in tobacco is nicotine.
2. Tobacco companies spend more than $36 million dollars every day on advertising and marketing.
3. Twenty-three percent of high school students currently smoke.
4. Tobacco companies put colorful print ads in magazines popular with teenage girls, use sleek and colorful packaging, and put their logos on all kinds of products like t-shirts, hats, and billboards.
5. Ninety percent of adults who regularly smoke began before they were 18.

Additional Resources for Teachers

The Web sites below provide additional resources and ideas that could be used in the classroom. Be sure to check the activities and getting involved pages on the “Kick Butts Day” site as well for some really innovative ideas for anti-tobacco campaigns.

1. What Are You Smoking?” http://www.whatareyousmoking.org/
2. CDC: http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/tobacco_industry/index.htm
3. Swat: http://www.okswat.com/index.asp
4. NSTEP: http://www.nstep.org/