Students play the role of smokers, "social smokers" and smokers trying to quit, to better understand the pressures faced by each.
Cigarette smoke contains over 4,000 different chemical compounds, one of them being nicotine. Nicotine is an extremely addictive compound. Smoking cigarettes can cause several types of cancer, make wrinkles appear around your mouth, destroy your teeth, and permanently stain your fingers yellow.
Tobacco contains nicotine, an addictive substance. Tobacco is the main substance in cigarettes. There are thousands of harmful chemicals in cigarettes. Second-hand smoke, where smoke from a burning cigarette is inhaled by someone who is not smoking, is just as bad as smoking a cigarette. Tobacco use of any kind can cause cancer and adversely affect the human body.
In this video segment from New York Voices, two people talk about their addiction to smoking.
Students identify types and sources of indoor air pollutants in their school and home environments. They evaluate actions that can be taken to reduce and prevent poor indoor air quality. In an associated literacy activity, students develop a persuasive peer-to-peer case against smoking with the goal to understand how language usage can influence perception, attitudes and behavior.
Consider the difference between critical viewing and being critical. Analyze the persuasive techniques in four cigarette print ads by answering five questions in this interactive form.
At the completion of this chapter you will be able to understand the steps taken against smoking. While understanding the text, you will be listening for specific information. By using the correct tenses and expression, you will place certain decisions into the future.
Lesson discussing the topical issue of smoking. Students fill in and discuss a worksheet and compose an anti-smoking Limerick.
Learn various perspectives on the issue of smoking in public places in New York City in this video segment from New York Voices.
This health education program explains why smoking is addictive and unhealthy for smokers and people around them. This resource is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
This health education program explains why smoking is addictive and unhealthy for smokers and people around them. This resource is a MedlinePlus Interactive Health Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine, designed and developed by the Patient Education Institute.
Students will reflect on their experience working through the Smoking Zine.
Alcohol abuse, healthy living and Alzheimer’s disease all regularly hit the headlines. This unit will take a brief look at these issues and introduces you to the type of issues that you would be asked to examine should you wish to study OU course Y158 U
