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All Choked Up By Smoking Statistics: Analyzing Statistics and Creating Graphs in the Mathematics Classroom
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students use the article 'More College Students Are Smoking, Study Says' as a springboard for discussion on the reasons why people smoke cigarettes and investigate different methods of graphing statistics by using the data provided in the article.

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Clearing the Smoke About Cigarettes: Creating Anti-Smoking Ad Campaigns Geared Towards Kids
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students explore the many causes and effects of cigarette smoking in order to create anti-smoking campaigns geared towards other students.Students list reasons why people smoke and reasons why people should not smoke; evaluate whether any of the reasons why people smoke are justifiable and why people smoke when they know that smoking is hazardous behavior

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Gender and Tobacco
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Source site:   Media Awareness Network (Canada)

In this lesson, students explore gender-related influences on smoking. They discuss the numbers of male and female smokers in Canada and around the world, and the strategies used by tobacco companies to reach both men and women. In separate groups, male and female students explore and discuss the relationship between smoking, the tobacco industry, tobacco marketing, and their gender, by deconstructing and analyzing tobacco ads from magazines for men, for women, and for a general audience.

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Lung Disease
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

Students will do the following: 1. Examine the long- and short-term effects of smoking 2. Develop a persuasive argument against smoking

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Mirror Image
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Source site:   Media Awareness Network (Canada)

In this lesson, students analyze their own body image and consider what they wish they could change. They discuss how smoking relates to body image, particularly for young women, and learn about the link between beauty and smoking.

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Risky Business: Investigating Connections Between Teens' Movie Viewing Restrictions and Their Use of Tobacco and Alcohol
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students learn about a recent Dartmouth study that connected teenagers' movie viewing restrictions with their tobacco and alcohol usage. They then conduct their own research in tobacco and alcohol use among teenagers by devising surveys to be distributed and analyzed in their own school setting.

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Smoke Signals
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

In this lesson students learn methods to avoid the temptation to smoke. They also list behaviors and resources in order to avoid smoking. They also conduct research, and analyze information.

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Smoke Signals: Exploring the Economic and Health-Related Impacts of a Smoking Habit
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students estimate the amount of money a non-smoking teen spends in a week, a month, and a year, and compare it with the expenses of a teen who smokes one, two, and three packs a day. They then research other reasons that teens should not smoke, and create an ad campaign geared toward young people emphasizing the financial and health benefits of not smoking.

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Smoking
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Source site:   DiscoverySchool.com, Silver Spring, MD

Students will be able to do the following: 1. Understand some of the physical dangers of smoking 2. Understand that various factors influence their decision making 3. Understand the different advertising strategies that tobacco companies use 4. Discuss personal responsibilities regarding smoking

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Tobacco is Bad News
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Source site:   Guilford County Schools, Greensboro, NC

The students will be able to identify several affects tobacco products have on the body.

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Up in Smoke: Considering Arguments Surrounding Antismoking Legislation
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Source site:   The New York Times

In this lesson, students will consider their beliefs about antismoking laws before and after examining total smoking bans in various countries and the rationales behind them.

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