Learn about all the different diseases you can get by smoking. Smoking increases your chances of heart disease, smoke, and lung cancer, to name just a few. Find out the link between impotence and smoking, as well as to bronchitis and...

Get the statistics on smoking and tobacco in Canada. Focuses particularly on young people between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four and looks at changes in smoking status and amount smoked. Studies tobacco use in middle school aged...

Curriculum unit enables students to carry out authentic research on smoking behavior and examines how genetic and environmental factors may influence this behavior.

Gives reasons why kids pick up smoking despite what we know about tobacco. Good information about the social pressures that lead them to begin.

Established as a campaign to eliminate the epidemic of smoking, the Action on Smoking and Health aims to develop awareness about the use of tobacco, and reduce tobacco related diseases.

This site discusses, through a series of questions and answers, the benefits of smoking cessation. Also provides links to definitions of many of the terms used throughout the site.

Find out about the health implications of cigarette use and other tobacco-related research. Includes smoking fact sheets, current statistics of tobacco use, legal information, visual resources, and details about the tobacco industry.

This article explores the effects of smoking on an unborn baby. Content includes tips to help you quit smoking as well as resources you can use to help the process.

This resource provides information about the dangers of smoking while pregnant, and the affects on children in the future.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about smoking and how it hurts both people and the environment. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Students study the effects smoking tobacco has on the major organs of the human body. They also develop a presentation to persuade others to not start the smoking habit.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about the damage smoking does to the body. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in determining the author's purpose.

[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the negative effects of smoking on people and on the environment. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.

Learn about the health risks posed by the use of e-cigarettes in young people.

Providing reasons why kids pick up smoking despite what we know about tobacco, this website from Kids Health offers good information about the social pressures that cause kids to start using tobacco.

Read this passage and study the chart to complete the five-question quiz concerning smoking cessation and behavioral change.

Learn why people smoke and about the effects of smoking.

Graphic labels and warnings are due to be on tobacco products to warn consumers of the consequences of smoking. January 2011

This resource presents youth with the facts about smoking. Try testing your knowledge of how tobacco affects you by taking a short online quiz. Explore the connection of smoking and Hollywood movies as well. From Health Canada.

This PDF resource provides a blank cause and effect graphic organizer for listing the effects of smoking. Requires Adobe Reader.

This extensive resource provides facts about tobacco addiction. Covers topics such as nicotine addicion, how and why tobacco is used and the adverse health effects of tobacco use.

Explore the growing smoking habit in China, especially among males.

Krishna Sudhir details what happens when we smoke and when we quit.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage includes six reasons why people should not smoke. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Questions are provided as supplements to the passage.