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The Internet provides you with a wealth of tobacco prevention
resources and information. Several of the more notable sites
are listed below for your reference. We encourage you to
download lesson plans and other resources from these sites.
Incorporate
anti-tobacco messages into your lesson plans, such as smoking
experiments in Science; essays on smoking in English; smoking
equations in Math; effects of smoking in Health; review
of cigarette ads to determine who tobacco companies target
with their ads in Social Studies.
Have
students research and write stories for the school newspaper
about the social and health consequences of smoking.
Hold
a contest for the best stop-smoking creation: a poster,
essay, song, debate, radio or TV commercial, home video,
editorial, poetry, slogan, banner, cartoon, joke, comedy
routine, or not-smoking pledge.
Ask
the school newspaper to cover tobacco issues, including
health effects, cost of using tobacco, social ramifications
(it stinks to the opposite sex), and the marketing practices
of the tobacco industry.
Organize
high school and junior high students to put on a show for
elementary school students in your district. The older
kids learn from writing and producing a show while the
younger kids learn from people they admire.
Encourage
students to "adopt" their parents or other loved
ones who smoke. Students can promise to provide moral support
and keep a watchful eye on their charges that are trying
to quit as part of the Great American Smokeout. "Adopt-a-Smoker" certificates
can be downloaded at www.cancer.org Enter your zip code
or city--click on More About ACS in Texas-follow the link
under Community Events.
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Amarillo,
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