- Article: "Smoking"
This article offers children information on smoking, peer pressure, and other tobacco-related issues.
- "Bonko's Body Quiz" Game
This fun, interactive quiz gives kids a chance to explore and learn about tobacco and its effects on the body.
- IML Journal Page: "Smoking"
These pages, designed for easy printing, encourage children to express themselves on the topic and can complement home or classroom discussion.
- Video Clip: "Smoking"
Features animated anti-smoking PSA's produced by pre-teens. These short videos are wonderful ice-breakers and catalysts for in-person discussion. (Copies of this video clip can be purchased on DVD, VHS, or CD-ROM by calling CastleWorks, Inc. at 212-288-2150.)
Lesson Plans:
These lessons, created by educators, are designed to help teachers integrate the It's My Life Web site, and its treatment of this topic, into the classroom.
Quick Discussion Guide:
Questions and suggestions for discussing this topic with your child.
Related Resources:
On The Web
"Take 10 Parent Education Program"
www.2take10.com
Includes suggestions on how to broach the topic and initiate detailed discussions. Sponsored by the Scottish Council for Research in Education.
CDC's Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
www.cdc.gov/tobacco
An extensive site about the dangers of smoking. Includes statistics.
TobaccoFree
www.tobaccofree.com
Sponsored by the Foundation for a Smokefree America.
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
www.tobaccofreekids.com
Details this campaign, which specifically addresses the way the tobacco industry markets their products for children and teens.
Books
Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths
by Barbara S. Lynch
This book addresses tobacco prevention programs for youth, the effect of tobacco advertising, and controls and bans on tobacco sales. In addition, it explains Nicotine's effects and the process of addiction, and provides specific guidelines for public action.
How to Raise Non-Smoking Kids
By Neil Izenberg, M.D. with Robert P. Libbon
A handbook for parents to help children stay smoke-free. Addresses issues like peer pressure to the advertising by tobacco companies to the images that children pick up from popular culture.
What to Teach Kids About Tobacco: For Parents, Teachers and Other Caregivers
(The Parenting for Prevention Information Series)
Please also see Books for Kids.
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