Grades 6 to 8 • Smoking

[Pages:8]Grades 6 to 8 ? Health Problems Series

Smoking

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Teacher's Guide

This guide includes: ? Standards ? Related Links ? Discussion Questions ? Activities for Students ? Reproducible Materials

Standards

This guide correlates with the following National Health Education Standards:

Students will:

? Comprehend concepts related

to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.

? Analyze the influence of

family, peers, culture, media, technology, and other factors on health behaviors.

? Demonstrate the ability to

access valid information and products and services to enhance health.

? Demonstrate the ability to use

interpersonal communication skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.

? Demonstrate the ability to

practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce health risks.

? Demonstrate the ability to

advocate for personal, family, and community health.

National Health Education Standards: healthyschools/sher/standards/ index.htm

Despite the fact that smoking is dangerous, thousands of youth ages 12 to 17 start smoking each day. The following activities will help your students understand why people begin smoking, what smoking does to the body, and how they can protect themselves from the effects of tobacco.

Related KidsHealth Links

Articles for Kids:

Smoking Stinks! kid/watch/house/smoking.html Dealing With Peer Pressure kid/feeling/friend/peer_pressure.html Helping a Parent Who Smokes kid/grow/drugs_alcohol/folks_smoking.html Smoking and Asthma kid/health_problems/allergy/smoking_asthma.html

Articles for Teens:

Smoking teen/cancer_center/q_a/smoking.html Smokeless Tobacco teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smokeless.html E-Cigarettes teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/e-cigarettes.html Peer Pressure teen/your_mind/friends/peer_pressure.html How Can I Quit Smoking? teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/quit_smoking.html Secondhand Smoke teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/secondhand_smoke.html Smoking and Asthma teen/drug_alcohol/tobacco/smoking_asthma.html

Discussion Questions

Note: These questions are appropriate for sharing with your students.

1. If smoking is so dangerous, why do people do it?

2. List the ways smoking harms the body, including diseases it's linked to.

3. Smoking is addictive and difficult to give up. What can a smoker do to quit?

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Activities for Students

Note: The following activities are written in language appropriate for sharing with your students.

Money Going Up in Smoke

Objectives:

Students will: ? Calculate and contextualize the monetary cost of smoking cigarettes

Materials:

? "Money Going Up in Smoke" handout

Class Time:

15 minutes

Activity:

Instructions: If each pack of cigarettes costs $6, use the "Money Going Up in Smoke" handout to show how much a smoker would spend in a year. Then write down what you might do with each amount of money rather than spending it on tobacco products.

Extension:

Facilitate a classroom discussion on reasons not to smoke. Have students state reasons, and write them on the board. Then have students vote on the top reasons, ranked from 1 to 10. Create posters for school hallways listing the Top 10 Reasons Not to Smoke. You can put up the posters in time for Kick Butts Day (by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids) in March, World No Tobacco Day (by the World Health Organization) in May, or the Great American Smokeout (by the American Cancer Society) in November.

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Seeing Through the Smoke

Objectives:

Students will: ? Explore how peer pressure can affect the decision to smoke ? Identify ways to deal with peer pressure centered around smoking

Materials:

? Computer with Internet access ? "Seeing Through the Smoke" handout ? Paper and pencil or pen or word processing software

Class Time:

2 hours

Activity:

Despite the fact that fewer young people are smoking, they still face pressure to start -- whether it's from friends, the tobacco industry, or images they see in the media. After you read the articles at , work in small groups to write a brief skit that explores these pressures and how your friends and classmates can handle them. To help you get started, use the story map to brainstorm ideas about your skit -- the setting, characters, problem, and solution.

Extension:

Interview an adult about age 60 or older and ask about how attitudes and laws related to smoking have changed since she or he was in middle school. Write an essay about the differences between then and now related to smoking and tobacco.

Reproducible Materials

Handout: Money Going Up in Smoke classroom/6to8/problems/drugs/smoking_handout1.pdf Handout: Money Going Up in Smoke Answer Key classroom/6to8/problems/drugs/smoking_handout2.pdf Handout: Seeing Through the Smoke classroom/6to8/problems/drugs/smoking_handout3.pdf Quiz: Smoking classroom/6to8/problems/drugs/smoking_quiz.pdf Answer Key: Smoking classroom/6to8/problems/drugs/smoking_quiz_answers.pdf

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Money Going Up in Smoke

Instructions: If each pack of cigarettes costs $6, calculate how much a smoker would spend in a year if he or she smoked the amounts listed below. Then write down what you might do with each amount of money.

1 Pack Per Week

Half a pack a day

1 pack a day

Total for year:

Total for year:

1. With the amount of money from a pack of cigarettes a week, I could:

Total for year:

2. With the amount of money from a half a pack of cigarettes a day, I could:

3. With the amount of money from a 1 pack of cigarettes a day, I could:

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Money Going Up in Smoke Answer Key

Instructions: If each pack of cigarettes costs $6, calculate how much a smoker would spend in a year if he or she smoked the amounts listed below. Then write down what you might do with each amount of money.

1 Pack Per Week $6 X 52 weeks

Total for year: $312

Half a pack a day $6 / 2 X 365 days

Total for year: $1,095

1 pack a day

$6 X 365 days (or $1,095 X 2)

Total for year: $2,190

1. With the amount of money from a pack of cigarettes a week, I could:

2. With the amount of money from a half a pack of cigarettes a day, I could:

3. With the amount of money from a 1 pack of cigarettes a day, I could:

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Name:Date:

Seeing Through the Smoke

Instructions: After reading articles about smoking at , work in small groups to write a brief skit that demonstrates peer pressure on kids and teens to smoke, and how to handle peer pressure and stay away from smoking. To help you get started, use the story map to brainstorm ideas about your skit.

Setting (time and place)

Characters

Problem (faced by the main character)

Solution (how the main character deals with peer pressure to smoke)

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Name:Date:

Quiz

Instructions: Answer each question.

1. The main poisonous, addictive chemical in tobacco is called: a. addictotine b. nicktheteen c. kerosene d. nicotine e. amphetamine

2. True or false: It's better to chew tobacco than to smoke cigarettes. 3. Name two health problems caused by smoking:

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 4. Name one way you avoid peer pressure to smoke: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 5. Kids and teens can't make a parent or guardian stop smoking, but they can _________________________ them quit.

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Quiz Answer Key

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Smoking

1. The main poisonous, addictive chemical in tobacco is called: a. addictotine b. nicktheteen c. kerosene d. nicotine e. amphetamine

2. True or false: It's better to chew tobacco than to smoke cigarettes. (Smokeless tobacco causes mouth and throat cancer, increased heart rate and blood pressure, and receding gums.)

3. Name two health problems caused by smoking: _A_n_y__t_w_o__o_f__th__e_f_o_l_l_o_w_i_n_g_:__h_e_a_r_t_d__is_e_a_s_e_;__st_r_o_k_e_;__e_m__p_h_y_s_e_m__a_;_b_r_o_n__c_h_it_i_s_;_p_n_e__u_m_o__n_ia_;__m__a_n_y__t_y_p_e_s_o__f_c_a_n_c_e_r__in__c_lu_d__in_g__l_u_n_g_,____ _t_h_r_o_a_t_, _s_t_o_m__a_c_h_,_a_n_d__b_l_a_d_d__e_r_c_a_n__ce__r._____________________________________________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. Name one way you avoid peer pressure to smoke: _A_n_y__o_n_e__o_f__th__e_f_o_l_lo__w_i_n_g_:_l_i_st_e_n__t_o__y_o_u_r__in__n_e_r_v_o__ic_e_,_p__la_n__f_o_r__p_o_s_s_ib__le__s_it_u_a__ti_o_n__w__it_h__c_a_t_c_h__p_h_r_a_s_e_s_,_h_a_n__g_o_u__t_w__it_h__f_r_ie_n__d_s____ _w_h_o__f_e_e_l__th__e_s_a_m__e__a_s_y__o_u_,_s_a_y__y_o_u_r__p_a_r_e_n_t_s__w_o_n_'_t__le_t__y_o_u__s_m__o_k_e_,_g_e_t__c_o_m__fo__rt_a_b__le__s_a_y_i_n_g__n_o________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. Kids and teens can't make a parent or guardian stop smoking, but they can ____e_n_c_o_u_r_a_g_e__(_o_r_h_e__lp_)____ them quit.

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