Utah Education Network
Uen: Tobacco 101
This lesson plan will help learners understand the short and long term effects of using tobacco as well as why it is addictive.
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)
National Museum of Science and Industry: Ingenious: Tobacco
Presents a short history of tobacco use and discusses how societal mores and public policy have changed over time based on how people have used tobacco. Includes a collection of images depicting the culture of smoking in different...
Read Works
Read Works: Is Big Tobacco Out to Hook Kids?
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the addictive nature of tobacco and the dangers teens face due to tobacco marketing strategies. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
Akron Children's Hospital
Akron Children's Hospital: Kidshealth: What Kids Say About Tobacco
Everyone knows tobacco is unhealthy, but what do kids think about it? Take a look at the results of a survey given to 1,433 kids.
Government of Canada
Health Living: Youth Zone: Tobacco
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.
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Tobacco Counterblast
In this lesson, students look at why King James I thought that smoking tobacco was a dangerous habit.
Other
Oral Cancer Information Center: The Tobacco Connection
The Oral Cancer Information Center talks about how smoking will put someone at greater risk for oral cancer.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health
Smokeless Tobacco and Cancer: Questions and Answers
This website provides brief responses to several questions about smokeless tobacco and the risks associated with its use including: "What harmful chemicals are found in smokeless tobacco?," and "What about using smokeless tobacco to quit...
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Chewing Tobacco: Not a Safe Product
At this site from the Mayo Clinic, you can read about smokeless tobacco and the dangers associated with it. This article includes information on how smokeless tobacco can cause the same problems,such as addiction, cardiovascular disease,...
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
Homepage for all the information you will ever need on tobacco use in the United States, including how to quit. Special links for teens (TIPS 4 Teens)
Partnership for Drug-Free Kids
National Youth Anti Drug Media Campaign: Above the Influence: Tobacco Facts
Statement from the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy about the risks of smoking tobacco.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Smokeless Tobacco
This three-page article explains what smokeless tobacco is and how it affects those who use it. Included are tips for those who want to quit chewing tobacco.
Other
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids
The Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids has developed a website showing how and why tobacco can affect many different aspects of your life. Click on one of the categories on the left to see how cigarette smoking hurts your health.
Other
U.s. History on Line: Tobacco Culture
Page with informational text and questions for students to answer, details the process of planting and growing tobacco in the Chesapeake region. Information is from a book published in 1918.
Other
Presidential Commission Call for Compensating Tobacco Quota
This report from a presidential commission discusses changes in the tobacco quota system and its effect on tobacco farmers.
Yale University
Yale New Haven Teachers Institute: Nicotine Addiction
From the Yale-New Haven Teacher's Institute, comprehensive history of tobacco, the tobacco industry, and tobacco-related illnesses.
US Food and Drug Administration
Fda: Us Food and Drug Administration: Proposed Cigarette Product Warning Label
Graphic labels and warnings are due to be on tobacco products to warn consumers of the consequences of smoking. January 2011
Other
Department of Health and Human Services: Straight Talk About Smoking
Girls' Health is a matter of fact resource in teaching girls the dangers and facts of tobacco use and abuse. Take a quiz to see where you stand in your knowledge of tobacco.
Utah Education Network
Uen: Uppers, Downers and All Arounders
This lesson will help students to understand how alcohol, tobacco and other drugs affect the human body and can impair an individual's actions.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Kids and Smoking
Gives reasons why kids pick up smoking despite what we know about tobacco. Good information about the social pressures that lead them to begin.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
At this site there are some quick facts, presented in a simple chart, about the dangers of smokeless tobacco.
American Academy of Family Physicians
Family doctor.org: Smokeless Tobacco
This article provides information on smokeless tobacco, and provides several tips on how to stop. Here, you can read responses to brief questions about smokeless tobacco, it dangers, and the difficulties of quitting using it. Learn how...
Stanford University
Stanford University: Alcohol, Tobacco Staples of Movies
This site from Stanford University shows how you can learn how the entertainment industry sends both positive and negative messages concerning substance use through movies and music. This article summarizes government research that...
University of Washington
Uw: Alcohol and Tobacco Use in G Rated Animated Movies
This page summarizes a Harvard study about the portrayal of alcohol and tobacco use in animated films geared toward younger audiences. It also summarizes research about films in general and how frequently they show alcohol and tobacco use.
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