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Kids Health: Kids and Smoking

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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.
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Children, Youth and Women's Health Service: Kids' Health: Smoking

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn why people smoke and about the effects of smoking.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Emphysema

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of emphysema. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and much more.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Esophageal Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides information about esophageal cancer. Included are sections on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Stomach Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of stomach cancer. Provides information on symptoms, diagnosis, treatment, and much more.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Atherosclerosis

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of atherosclerosis. Includes information on symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and much more.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of hypertension. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
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University of Illinois

University of Illinois: Mc Kinley Health Center: Bronchitis

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find descriptions of both acute and chronic bronchitis, as well as treatments for both.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Coronary Artery Disease

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of coronary artery disease. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and much more.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (Copd)

For Students 9th - 10th
Thorough overview of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Includes information on symptoms, prevention, treatment, and much more.
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Kids Health: Looking at Your Lungs

For Students 3rd - 8th
At this very creative site students will love learning about the function of their lungs. Fully illustrated with diagrams and new vocabulary words. Available in Spanish.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: China's Chances of Kicking a Growing Smoking Habit

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Explore the growing smoking habit in China, especially among males.
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Internet Mental Health: Young Smokers More Likely to Suffer Depression

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Research Council states their facts on why the prevention of cigarette smoking can help in the prevention of depression.
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Mayo Clinic

Mayo Clinic: Secondhand Smoke

For Students 9th - 10th
Use this site to learn why a "Burning cigarette is a health risk to everyone in the same room." This web-article describes the various hazards associated with secondhand smoke and includes information on its effect on children. Also,...
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Kids Health: Dealing With Peer Pressure

For Students 2nd - 5th
Making decisions on your own is hard enough, but when other people get involved and try to pressure you one way or another it can be even harder. When people your own age try to influence how you act, it's called peer pressure. It's...
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Cbc News: A Legal History of Smoking in Canada

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow this almost 20 year timeline of Tobacco Laws introduced and enforced in Canada.
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The Franklin Institute

The Franklin Institute: Heart Health and Care

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a simple guide from The Franklin Institute to keeping your heart healthy through proper exercise, a varied diet, and a clean lifestyle. Here, read about how to exercise and eat to avoid heart disease.
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CK-12 Foundation

Ck 12: Life Science: 11.34 Respiratory System Health

For Students 5th - 9th
Learn how we can keep our respiratory system healthy.
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Kids Health: Bronchitis

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of Bronchitis is provided on this site. Signs, symptoms, and treatments are also included. Links to related sites are available.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Pancreatic Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Intelihealth provides a thorough overview of pancreatic cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
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Optimistic Bias in Perceiving Physical and Mental Health

For Students 9th - 10th
This article looks at the tendency to view oneself as invulnerable to experience negative life events. They suggest this goes hand in hand with the tendency to overestimate one's probability of experiencing postive life events. (Miami...
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BBC

Bbc: Gcse Bitesize: How Can Lifestyle, Genes and Environment Affect Health? Oc

For Students 9th - 10th
This lesson focuses on Cardiovascular disease. The heart requires its own constant blood supply in order to keep beating and this is delivered through the coronary arteries. Genetic and lifestyle factors can lead to the coronary arteries...
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Lung Cancer and Lung Health

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes lung cancer risk factors and diagnosis, plus possible procedures for care and cures.
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Aetna: Inteli Health: Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Intelihealth provides a thorough overview of gallbladder and bile duct cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.

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