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Smoking

Smoking remains one of the main killers in the UK today.  It is also very expensive, highly addictive and even gives young people bad breath!  Despite all of this, some school pupils continue to smoke.

 

 12-16 yrs

Smoking Quiz 1

BBC Newsround is an excellent source of health info.  Click on the logo to open up the Newsround Smoking Quiz in a new window. How many questions can you answer correctly?  When you finish, return to this page and complete Task 2 below.

 

  12-18 yrs

Smoking Quiz 2

Now go on to tackle the more difficult smoking quiz on the BBC News website.  This will open in a new window when you click the logo on the right.

 

  12-18 yrs

Complete the activities below in your exercise book:

  1. Read the paragraph at the top of this section and suggest reasons why some pupils choose to smoke when it appears to be a remarkably stupid thing to do.

  2. What strong advice do almost all adult smokers give to young people who may be tempted to smoke?  Suggest reasons why they give this advice.

  3. Look at the picture.  It shows a cigarette in an ashtray along with two dice.  Can you suggest what point the picture is trying to make.

 

  12-18 yrs

Anti-smoking videos

Your class will watch a number of short anti-smoking videos on the whiteboard.  You will watch them all in turn.  

We will then go back and watch each of them again.  As you do so, give each a mark out of 10 on how effective you think it would be in persuading people to stop smoking or not to start smoking in the first place.  Along with each mark write a sentence explaining why you gave it that score. 

Next team up with a classmate to discuss your results and see if you can agree on the scores to give each video.  (If you can't agree, stick with your own score.)  Which did you give the highest mark to? 

The videos you will watch are:

Video 1: Second Hand Smoke

Video 2: Children

Video 3: Artery

Video 4: Teenage Girl

Video 5: Children Copy Adults

Video 6: Mouth Cancer

Video 7: Musical


 

 12-18 yrs

Imagine you are someone who smokes regularly.  (Of course, we realise you would never even think ....)   Now use the smoking calculator on the website below to work out how much money and time you could waste on smoking.

When you have completed this, try the smoking quiz on the website below.

 

 12-18 yrs

Smoking grows in
Developing Countries

As more and more people in rich countries quit smoking, large tobacco companies have turned their attention increasingly to developing countries.  The World Health Organisation (WHO) and other bodies have strongly criticised the tobacco industry for the massive amounts of money spent on marketing and, in particular, for encouraging young people in poor countries to smoke.

Your task is to use the internet to find up to ten important facts about Tobacco Companies and the Developing World.  Write them in your exercise book.

 

 

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