Smoke Signals
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Grades 9 to 12 |
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Healthy Active Living Education - Active Living Safety Healthy Active Living Education - Healthy Living Healthy Active Living Education - Living Skills Health for Life - Determinants of Health Social Factors Health for Life - Community Health Health Promotion Exercise Science - Biological Basis of Movement Human Performance |
Description:
Four videos - Crystal Ball (6 min) How it feels to be dying from emphysema. Diseased lungs and medical information about smoke-related diseases. Reasons why students start to smoke.
Don't Be Fooled (7 min) Counteract ads that target youth. Long-term effects of smoking.
Tobacco Facts (4 min) Harmful effects of smokeless tobacco and bidis, popular alternatives to cigarettes. Use of spit tobacco among athletes.
Decision Time (4 min) Teens and Doctors discuss difficulties in giving up smoking and offer suggestions on how to quit.
Topics as follows:
Emphysema; health risks; why start smoking; addiction; tobacco and athletic performance; tobacco advertisements; risks to youth; smokeless tobacco; oral cancer; bidis and stopping the habit.
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last reviewed: September 16, 2011