"Kick-the-Habit"

207081 kids have become regular smokers in 2000.
66266 will eventually die from their addiction.

Day One and Two: Defining the Task

"Every day, 3000 teenagers smoke their first cigarette. And smoking rates are on the rise. Smoking kills. Smoking will kill youth smokers. Out of 1000 20-year olds who smoke today, over their lifetimes, 12 will die in car accidents, 6 will be murdered and 500 will die from smoking-related causes."

"Mortality From Smoking In Developed Countries"
Imperial Cancer Research Fund, Oxford University Press, 1994.

How much do you know about smoking?

Take the Tobacco Questionnaire,
then answer the questionnaire in your packet.

The Scenario

It is 2030, the future. The teenage population is smoking more every year since the late 1990s. You are a member of the Youth Time Warp Team assigned to go back in time to introduce a plan to help the teenagers of the 1990s to quit, or never begin smoking.

In order to prepare for the task, you must first discover the information necessary to create your plan. That information will include:

1. Reasons teens start smoking
2. Health aspects of smoking
3. How teens can quit smoking
4. How teens can refuse to start smoking
5. How advertising influences teen smoking

The mission leader is looking for Youth Time Warp Team members who can submit their information for the council to review, which includes:

1. A bibliography of sources used
2. A note taking portfolio
3. Scripts of presentations
4. Advertisement posters
5. Enrichment activity

Click here to see the mission leader's rubric.

To help you understand power of tobacco advertisements, use your worksheet to explore Expose the Truth.

Day Three: Your Advertising Parody

Look at these tobacco advertising parodies created by students.
They will give you ideas for your own.

Tobacco Ads Parodies

Day Four: Understanding the Problem

Your team will go to the Library to find an article in the general encyclopedias on smoking. Look for 2 good facts to answer some of your team's questions listed above. Write down the source you use on a bibliography card and take short notes on the facts you find.

Your team will also use Proquest in the LMC. Print off an article on "smoking AND teenagers," and include it in your portfolio. For note taking, you may highlight the facts you feel are important.

Days Five & Six: Finding Possible Information for the Task

Choose any of the following sources on the Internet to find more information for creating your team's plan.

Reasons Teens Begin Using Tobacco

Why Do Teens Smoke	Youth Access to Tobacco
Why Do Kids Start Smoking?	When Do People Start Smoking?
Survey: Why Do You Smoke?	Play: Your Forecast

Health Aspects of Using Tobacco

Tobacco and Nicotine: Health Effects of Tobacco	Spit Tobacco: Facts
Second Hand Smoke	Addictive Aspects of Tobacco
Second Hand Smoke Effects Scroll to "General Brochures" and choose "Second Hand Smoke and Children"	Chemicals in Tobacco Products

How Teens Can Quit

QuitNet Quit Smoking Guide	Quitting Tips
The Breathing Space (Click on link you wish to read)	Social Consequences

How Teens Can Refuse to Start

Refusal Skills

Peer Education

Preventing Tobacco Use in Children and Adolescents

Tobacco Advertising

Cigarette Industry Strategies	Honest Tobacco Advertising Look at the posters, slides and tobacco facts.
Youth & Tobacco Advertising	Joe Camel's Future
The "Light" Cigarette Myth	Keep Your Cash
What Cigarette Makers Say & Don't Say About Sponsorship

Day Seven: Sort and Sift the Information Discovered

A. Have we found information to solve the task?

1. Reasons teens start smoking
2. Health aspects of smoking
3. How teens can quit smoking
4. How teens can refuse to start smoking
5. How advertising influences teen smoking

B. Have we organized our notes in the note portfolio? Do we have the bibliographies needed?

1. A bibliography of sources used
2. A note taking portfolio

Day Eight -Ten: Create the final presentation, advertisement, skit

1. Determine the information found on notes needed for the presentation.
2. Use a mind map, storyboard, or outline to organize the main ideas.
3. Write a rough draft of your script (skit or advertisement) or copy (newspaper)
4. Practice, practice, practice!!!
5. If finished, work on enrichment activity idea.

Day Eleven: Videotaping of final presentations.

Congratulations on your presentation! Who knows what effect you will have on 2030 in the future. Think of the lives you have possibly saved!

Day Twelve: Evaluation of Project and Process

1. What went well with the project?

2. What would you do differently next time?

3. What would you suggest to a friend starting the project next week?

4. What sources were most useful for creating your projects?

5. How useful was the online lesson that you are using now?

Bonus Sites on Tobacco

He Wanted You to Know...	Tobacco Free Kids Action Site	Facts & Figures, American Cancer Society
Smoking and the Simpsons	A Future Without Tobacco?	Marlboro Ad Spoofs