Tobacco Reduction Activities
1. Tar Jar
2. Mr. Gross Mouth
3. Body Talk
4. Stress Balls
5. Poison Box
6. Trivia Quiz
7. Butt Out Trivia Game Hearts @School
8. Fortune Tellers
9. Lung Function Experiential
10.BB Exercise
11.Explode the Myth
12. Collage
13. Act out Against Tobacco
14. Clever Catch
15. Hi5Living Tobacco Question Cards and Crossword
16. Flavored Tobacco
17.Wheel of Choices
18. Stay Smoke Free and Healthy Activity Awareness
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Tar Jar
Purpose: The tar jar graphically represents the amount of tar in tobacco smoke and helps to
explain to smokers what causes cancer, bronchitis and emphysema. The average 15 to 20 a day
smoker takes about a mug full of brown sticky tar into the lungs every year. The sight of the
Smokers Tar Jar has been enough to motivate smokers to stop. It is an excellent visual.
Materials:
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dark molasses (about 2 cups)
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glass jar with lid
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label for lid
Activity: Make your own tar jar
Discussion: General discussion about tar and the health of lungs.
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Mr. Gross Mouth
Purpose: to demonstrate the effects of tobacco on appearance.
Materials: Paper, markers or crayons
Tar Jar and Mr. Gross Mouth from Lending Library
Activity:
1. Ask if tobacco (cigarettes/spit/dip tobacco,etc) affect a person’s looks?
2. Write down responses on board.
3. Use tar jar to show how tar discolours teeth
4. Use Mr. Gross Mouth to illustrate effects inside the mouth
5. Use what you have just learned to draw a picture of what you might look like as a smoker in
twenty years from now.
6. How could you avoid looking like this?
Discussion:
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Body Talk
Purpose: to talk about the effects of tobacco on the body
Materials:
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Pigs Lungs from the Lending Library
Sucked In Poster from the Lending Library
Activity:
Ask participants to write down questions about the healthy and unhealthy lungs.
Now look at the Poster.
Discussion: Discuss how the things in this poster might affect the lungs and the body.
For more information see Appendix for Information Sheets on Pigs Lungs
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Stress Balls
Purpose: Make your own stress balls. Use the stress balls when you quit smoking as a
stress reliever
Materials:
 small balloons
 an equally small funnel
 cornstarch or rice
 stickers
Procedure:
1. Pick up the balloon and blow some air into it until its middle is about 5-inches around.
Do not tie it or twist the top.
2. Measure about an inch below the hole on the top and pinch it with your fingers.
3. Pick up the funnel and insert it into the hole and make the balloon’s top snap-shut on
the bottom of the funnel.
4. Fill the funnel with cornstarch/rice.
5. Slowly loosen your fingers to let the cornstarch/rice move into the balloon through its
top.
6. Keep adding the cornstarch/rice until the balloon is filled up to around 3 inches from
bottom (or fits nicely in the palm of your hand).
7. Tighten up the top of the balloon and carefully squeeze any extra air if you sense it.
8. Weigh down a tie a knot in the balloon.
9. Fire your imagination, and add personal messages. Use the stickers and colours and
markers to message and make your stress ball vibrant and colourful.
Discussion: Talk about stress and how to relieve it while you are making quit attempts.
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Poison Box
Purpose: to build a box which demonstrates the ingredients in tobacco.
The cost of the poison box could be up to $40 depending on if you have some of these items
already. For children's safety, we emptied all the containers we purchased, washed them and
re-filled with water. Some items we added food colouring to (i.e.: blue for the windex, pink for
the nail polish remover, etc...). Items that have safety seals we did not empty – however we
inspect the seal before each use to ensure safety.
We created large address labels and put the chemical and a description on it and attached it to
the container. We also put tape over the label to keep it clean and to stop it from getting ripped
off.
Poison Box Materials:
Small Plastic Red Gas Can - Benzene - "Found in pesticides & gasoline"
Windex Bottle - Ammonia - "Helps you absorb more nicotine (which helps keep you addicted)"
(Make sure the bottle you use lists “ammonia” on the bottle label)
Glass/Plastic Jar with fake Frog & water - Formaldehyde - "It causes cancer and can damage
your lungs, skin and digestive system. It’s used to preserve dead bodies"
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Bag/Jar of Flour - Arsenic - "Deadly poison that makes your lips burn and your breath turn bad.
Found in rat poison"
Bottle of Nail Polish Remover - Acetone - "Active ingredient of nail polish remover"
Lighter - Butane - "Highly flammable, also found in gasoline"
"D" size Battery - Cadmium - "It causes damage to the liver, kidneys and brain and stays in the
body for years"
Piece of metal pipe - Carbon Monoxide - "Replaces oxygen in the blood stream"
Container of turpentine - Turpentine - "Very toxic. Most commonly used as a paint stripper"
Small container of anti-freeze - Propylene Glycol - "Keeps tobacco from drying out. Also helps
deliver nicotine to the brain."
Taper Candle – Stearic Acid – “Used to coat cigarette paper”
Glass/Plastic Jar filled with 2 cups of molasses – Tar – “This tar represents the approximate
amount of tar a smoker puts into their lungs each year when smoking one package of cigarettes
a day.”
Discussion: Talk about the items you have placed in the poison box.
Are you surprised by any of the items?
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Tobacco Trivia Quiz Test Your Tobacco IQ
1. True or False: Second Hand Smoke is bad for pets?
 True
 False
2. Fill in the Blank. Second Hand smoke…
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Makes it hard to breathe
Makes our heart bear faster
Can cause disease in a non-smoker
All the above
3. True or False: Most of the smoke from a cigarette is not inhaled by the smoker but goes
into the surrounding air.
 True
 False
4. What do smokers get more of?
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Dates
Colds
Hiccups
Free lunches
5. The average Canadian teenager tobacco user spends how much on tobacco a year?
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$500
$750
$1000
$1500
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6. Fill in the Blank. Second Hand smoke:
 Is just as dangerous to non-smokers as cigarette are to smokers
 Is good for killing mosquitoes
 Helps clear your sinuses
7. If you smoke you are likely to have:
 More cold and ear infections
 More energy for sports
 Itchy feet
8. What can tobacco do to your body?
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Cause wrinkles
Make your hair and breath stink
Make it hard to breathe
All the above
9. What is a good way to turn down someone who offers you a tobacco?
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No thanks. I don’t want to smoke
I don’t feel like one right now
I play sports and smoking will slow me down
All the above
10. Which of the following are benefits of not smoking?
 Stronger heart and lungs
 Better athletic performance
 Whiter teeth and fresher breath
 All the above
11. Tobacco affects the way you look. Which of the following is not caused by tobacco?
 Wrinkles
 Yellow teeth and fingers
 Gray hair
 Smelly hair and clothes
12. Compared to 12 to 17 years old who don’t use tobacco, those who do are:
 Twice as likely to suffer from symptoms of depression
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 Five times more likely to drink alcohol
 Thirteen times more likely to use marijuana
 All the above
Answers:
1. True. Second Hand smoke can cause cancer in dogs and cats.
2. All the above. Second hand smoke makes it hard to breathe, our hearts beat faster and
it is dangerous for non-smokers.
3. True. Almost two-thirds of the smoke exhaled by the smoker goes into the surrounding
air.
4. Colds. No hiccups or free lunches and most teens say they would rather not date a
tobacco user so fewer dates too!
5. $1500 a year. Just think what else you could buy with that much money!
6. Second hand smoke is just as dangerous to non-smokers as cigarettes are to smokers.
7. Colds and ear infections. You’ll have more energy for sports if you don’t smoke.
8. All the above. Tobacco causes wrinkles, stinky hair and makes it hard to breathe.
9. All the above. Practice different ways of saying “No”
10. All the above. Stronger heart and lungs, better at sports and look at those shiny white
teeth!
11. Gray hair. Tobacco does many bad things, but it doesn’t change the color your hair
color.
12. All the above.
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Butt Out Trivia Game
Please click on the above to open the PowerPoint Butt Out Trivia
Game.
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Fortune Tellers
Purpose: to create a “tool” to ask questions about tobacco
Materials:
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Colored paper
Template
Instructions: (see Appendix for sample sheets)
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Fold the paper into fourths
Unfold the paper
Fold over the four corners, evenly into the middle
Fold into fourths again
Flip over the paper
Fold over the corners on the new side of the paper
Fold into fourths one last time
Fit your fingers into the slits
Open
Activity: You can now color each outside section a different color, put numbers on the inside sections,
and put fortunes/answers to questions on the inside tabs.
1. Have someone ask a question
2. Have them pick a color
3. Spell out the color as you move the fortune teller back and forth (i.e. BLUE- four letters, move 4
times)
4. Have them pick a number from the inside
5. Move the fortune teller that many times
6. Have them pick a new number
7. Open the flap of the number they picked
8. The answer to their question is on the inside tab that you have just revealed
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For more information see Appendix for templates. YouTube has demonstrations on “how
to make and use”. Google Chinese fortune teller’s instructions.
Lung Function Experiential
Purpose: To experience the feeling of little to no air in your lungs. This is what it might feel like to have
COPD
Materials:
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Straws cut in half
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Stir Sticks
Activity:
Using the straw or stir stick, breathe through your mouth only
Close your nose
Discussion: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the most common lung diseases. It
makes it difficult to breathe. There are two main forms of COPD:
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Chronic bronchitis, which involves a long-term cough with mucus
Emphysema, which involves destruction of the lungs over time
Most people with COPD have a combination of both conditions. Smoking is a major cause.
How did it feel to have limited breathing capacity?
Would breathing like this, limit the things you like to do?
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BB Exercise
Purpose: To show the Loss due to tobacco deaths and other substances
Materials:
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BB’s (metal pellets) counted out into separate zip lock bags (10) (17) (22) (1200)
Activity:
The facilitator shares a story about a personal loss of a friend or family member due to a tobacco
related illness.
Has anyone else experienced a loss due to tobacco related illness that they would like to share?
Volunteers come forward from the audience to drop a BB to drop into a jar. Please feel free to say the
person’s name as you drop the BB into the jar.
Let each of these tragic deaths be represented by a sound.
The sound represents the number of deaths caused from the misuse of illicit substances. Please close
your eyes. You will be safe. Listen to the sounds…….
Facilitator: This represents the sound of the number of deaths each day from heroin and morphine
overdoses.
Facilitator drops 17 BB into the container.
Facilitator: Cocaine is another killer. This is the number of deaths each day from cocaine overdoses
Facilitator drops 22 BB into the container.
Facilitator: Tobacco: this the number of deaths from Tobacco
drops 1200 BB into the container
Please open your eyes
Discussion: Facilitator: 1200 people are killed daily, each and every day from Tobacco. More than three
out of the four of those people started using tobacco while they were children by age 18. Over half
began using tobacco by grade 8. Tobacco kills one out of every two people who use it as the
manufacturer intended. Are you surprised by the numbers?
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What were your thoughts when you heard the sounds?
Explode the Myth
Purpose: to explode “myths” (widely held mistaken belief’s) about tobacco and its use
Materials:
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Balloons
Paper
Markers
Activity: write statements about tobacco that are “un-true”
Take the statement, put it into a balloon, and then “pop” it!
Myths:
Smoking is cool
Tobacco is good for your health
I can stop whenever I want
Discussion:
How does it feel to pop the balloon?
Can you tell the truth from the myths?
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Do you feel you have made a difference by exploding the myth?
Collage
Purpose: This activity demonstrates the abuse that tobacco inflicts on the human body
Materials:
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Bulletin Board or large piece of bristol board
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Magazines
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Real pictures of people with tobacco related illness (Obtain from the Internet)
Activity: create a collage of pictures showing healthy images next to images of people with tobacco
related illnesses. Post collages in a high traffic area.
Discussion:
Can you see the differences?
What messages does this send?
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Act Out Against Tobacco
Purpose: role play using skits and drama to say NO when offered Tobacco
Materials:
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Your imagination
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Younger kids
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Older kids
Activity: Divide into two teams. One team will choose an idea and act out a way to lure kids into using
tobacco, while the other team will respond with ways to say “NO”. Take turns acting and learning ways
to say no.
Discussion:
How many ways were developed to say NO?
Was it easy to say no?
What seemed to work best?
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Clever Catch
Purpose: This activity provides a fun and engaging way for students to learn about the harmful effects of
tobacco use.
Materials:
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Beach Ball with questions on it
Answer sheets
Activity:
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Pair up and make two lines of people
Toss the ball
Where ever your thumb lands, when you catch the ball, is the question you will try to answer
There is lots of room for discussion
Discussion:
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Each question can provide interesting discussions in the classroom.
(answer sheets are provided at the end of this booklet)
Appendix: Chinese Fortune Tellers
Instructions:
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Valley fold paper from corner to corner, making a triangle.
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Valley fold the triangle from corner to corner, making a smaller
triangle.
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Unfold everything -- you'll have a square of paper with an X crease.
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Fold the corner to the center of the square (where the X crosses)
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Repeat with the other three corners.
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And you end up with a smaller square!
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Flip your paper
over
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Fold the corner to the center of the square (where the X crosses)
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Repeat with the other three corners and you'll end up with an even
smaller square
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Fold and unfold the bottom edge of the square up to the top
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Fold and unfold the left edge of the square over to the right
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so that the creases look like an astrix across your small square
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This bit is easier to do than it is to explain -- basically, you want to
push the four corners of the square together in the center and then
slide 4 fingers into the flaps of your fortune teller, creasing the folds
back so your fingers fit in nicely. You'll be able to move the flaps
with your fingers like little puppets.
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HI5Living Resources: From http://www.hi5living.org/
Hi5Living Tobacco Use Questions: Please visit:
http://www.hi5living.org/pdf/hi5livingQA_TOBACCO_USE.pdf
Hi5Living Tobacco Crossword:
http://www.hi5living.org/pdf/Hi5Crossword_2Tobacco.pdf
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Flavored Tobacco: Trick or Treat
Activity Borrowed from the Canadian Cancer Society
Break the class up into 2 even groups and give one group the flavoured tobacco kit and the other group
the ALL candy kit. Ask the group to answer the following questions:
What colours do you see?
Are the colours bright and saturated, or dull and muted?
What shapes do you see?
Do you notice any aromas? What do you smell?
What images do you see on the packaging?
What words stand out to you on the packaging?
Have a speaker at each group in order to sit down and facilitate productive conversation and keep the
kids on track. Once the groups have come up with their answers bring the group back together and
compare their answers to show the relationship and similarities between flavoured tobacco packaging
and candy packaging.
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Wheel of Choices Game – Secondary
Grades
Updated Oct. 2013
In Canada, what percentage of teens
(age 15-19) smoke?
1. 80%
2. 12%
3. 24%
Answer: 12%. In 2011, teens had the lowest smoking rate of all age groups in Canada.
CTUMS 2011
Which province or territory has the lowest smoking rate in Canada?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Quebec
Nunavut
BC
Ontario
Answer: BC has had the lowest smoking rate for more than a decade.
Tobacco Use in Canada 2013 (CTUMS data)
Which of the following is the MOST addictive?
1. Cocaine
2. Tobacco
3. Alcohol
Answer: Tobacco is one of the most addictive substances known.
True or false: nicotine can give you cancer.
Answer: false. Nicotine does not cause cancer – there are over 50 other chemicals in smoke
that do. However, nicotine can addict you to cigarettes and chew tobacco.
If nicotine is so bad for you, why do they put it in patches?
Answer: the “clean” nicotine in patches is very safe and helps people quit smoking. It’s the other
chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause the most harm.
How long does it take the nicotine in a cigarette to reach your brain after taking a puff?
1. 1 minute
2. 7 seconds
3. 1 hour
Answer: 7 seconds. This “hit” of nicotine in the brain helps to reinforce addiction.
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True or false: tobacco use makes the heart beat slower.
False: the heart beats faster and harder to pump blood through narrowed blood vessels caused
by tobacco use.
Which condition is worsened by second hand smoke?
1. Chicken pox
2. Asthma
3. Mumps
Answer: Asthma
bc.tobaccofacts gr. 4 p. 82
Can smoking make pimples worse?
Yes, smoking harms your immune system. This can mean that pimples stick around longer, cuts
take longer to heal, and it’s harder to get over colds/flu.
True or False: spit (chew) tobacco is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes.
False: chew tobacco contains cancer- causing chemicals just like cigarettes.
Which of the following tobacco products is not harmful?
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2.
3.
4.
Cigarettes
Cigarillos or little cigars
Tobacco Hookah pipe
None of the above
Answer: none of the above. Many young people think smoking through a hookah pipe “cleans”
the smoke, but this is false.
Describe some ways you could support a friend who is trying to quit smoking.
Possible answers:
 Listen without judging
 Give praise for their efforts
 Ask how you can help
 Be positive even if nicotine sometimes wins the fight
 Be understanding
 Suggest other things to do
bc.tobaccofacts gr. 10 p. 31
I’m feeling very nervous and I’m finding it hard to concentrate on my school work. I haven’t had
a cigarette since 8:30 this morning. I have another hour before I can go outside. What should I
do?
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True or false: cigarette butts are harmful to wildlife.
True: birds and animals (and children!) that eat cigarette butts may be poisoned by toxic
ingredients
True or false: some people who can’t seem to quit for their own health will do so to protect their
pets from second hand smoke.
Answer: true. Many people quit smoking to keep their pets safe and healthy!
The tobacco industry is not allowed to promote their products through sponsorship events like
car racing, music festivals and extreme sports. What is one strategy that they are currently
using to promote tobacco?
1. Hot air balloon races
2. Cigarette girls (and boys) in bars
3. Handing out cigarettes to school children
Answer: cigarette girls and boys in bars
By law in Canada, it is illegal to give or sell tobacco to minors (in BC = under 19). This law
means that which of the following people can’t provide tobacco to minors?
1. Friends and classmates
2. Parents
3. Strangers
4. All of the above
Answer: all of the above. Fines can be up to $3,000 for first offence and up to $50,000 for
subsequent offences.
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Is it illegal for someone under 19 in BC to buy cigarettes?
Answer: No, but it is against the law for others to sell or give tobacco to someone under 19.
If you smoke a pack of cigarettes a day, in one year you will spend over $3000. What else could
you spend it on?
What are some of the best reasons for women to be smoke free if they are thinking of getting
pregnant or are pregnant?
Possible answers:
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Helps them to be healthy, strong women!
Makes it easier to get pregnant
Helps them be healthy, active mothers with lots of energy for parenting
Reduces risk of miscarriage
Reduces health risks to the fetus
Why do mothers who smoke or who are exposed to tobacco smoke at a greater risk of
delivering a smaller baby or stillbirth?
 Fetuses lungs can’t handle the smoke
 Chemicals shrink the mother’s uterus
 Nicotine constricts fetal blood vessels
Answer: Nicotine constricts fetal blood vessels
bc. tobaccofacts Gr. 12 p. 49
If current tobacco use trends continue, how many people in the world will die per year by the
year 2030?
Answer: 8 million per year
WHO Tobacco fact sheet #339
Tobacco killed 100 million people in the 20th century. If current trends continue, how many
people will die worldwide in the 21st century due to tobacco?
Answer: an estimated 1 billion
WHO Tobacco fact sheet #339
My allowance is getting all used up buying cigarettes. It costs about $10 a day just to buy my
smokes! What should I do?
Quit smoking:
 Check out QuitNow Services for help
 “Cut down to quit” using NRT
 Talk to your Dr. or Pharmacist
Use the money to save for something great.
Savings= $70 a week!
Cigarette companies are expanding their international operations, especially into the developing
world and Eastern Europe. Why?
1. They are great places to run a business
2. Smoking rates are declining in the West so they need new customers
3. Labour costs are lower
Answer: Smoking rates are declining in the West so they need to move to new markets in
developing and poorer countries to find new customers
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True or false: in BC, tobacco companies are allowed to hide the ingredients in cigarettes.
False: BC requires tobacco companies to disclose the ingredients in cigarettes by law.
Which strategy do you think is the most effective to reduce youth smoking rates?
1. Free patches
2. Raising the price of tobacco
3. Anti-tobacco ads on television
Answer: Raising the price of tobacco. A 10% increase in the price of cigarettes causes a drop in
consumption of 4%. But it’s important to help smokers quit too!
Have smoking scenes in youth-rated movies been banned?
No, in fact smoking is alive and well in youth rated movies. It has doubled between 2010-2012.
Legacy 2012
True or false: if kids see people smoking in movies they are more likely to become smokers
themselves?
Answer: True. According to the US Surgeon General, smoking in movies is one of the most
powerful ways that tobacco companies market their product to youth.
US Surgeon General 2012
Which movie company shows the most scenes with tobacco in child & youth-rated movies?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Disney
Viacom
Time Warner
Sony
Time Warner, with an average of 27 tobacco incidents per child & youth-rated movie. Disney is
one of the best at avg. 9 incidents per movie.
CDC Fact sheet Smoking in Movies
How many trees are cut down every year to cure tobacco leaves?
1. 1 million
2. 600 million
3. 450,000
Answer: 600 million trees are used to cure tobacco leaves to make cigarettes, in addition to the
land used to grow tobacco.
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True or false: tobacco is grown in Canada.
Answer: true: tobacco is still grown in Ontario and Quebec and sold to make cigarettes.
Are cigarette butts biodegradable?
Answer: no, cigarette filters contain plastic fibres, which never break down completely in the
environment.
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Wheel of Choices Game – Elementary
Grades
Updated Oct. 2013
What percentage of teens (15-19) in Canada smoke?
1. 80%
2. 12%
3. 24%
Answer: 12%. In 2011, teens had the lowest smoking rate of all age groups in Canada.
CTUMS 2011
Which province or territory has the lowest smoking rate in Canada?
1. Quebec
2. Nunavut
3. BC
4. Ontario
Answer: BC has had the lowest smoking rate for more than a decade.
Tobacco Use in Canada 2013 (CTUMS data)
I am an invisible gas. I am found in car exhaust and tobacco smoke. At high concentrations I
starve the body of oxygen.
What am I?
1. Nicotine
2. Carbon monoxide
3. Tar
True or False: spit (chew) tobacco is a safe alternative to smoking cigarettes.
False: chew tobacco contains cancer- causing chemicals just like cigarettes.
True or false: cigarette butts are harmful to wildlife.
True: birds and animals (and children!) that eat cigarette butts may be poisoned by toxic
ingredients
True or false: some people quit smoking to protect their pets from second hand smoke.
Answer: true. Many people quit smoking to keep their pets safe and healthy!
Which of the following is the MOST addictive?
1. Ccocaine
2. Tobacco
3. Alcohol
Answer: Tobacco is one of the most addictive substances.
True or false: nicotine can give you cancer.
Answer: false. Nicotine does not cause cancer – there are over 50 other chemicals in smoke
that do. However, nicotine can addict you to cigarettes and chew tobacco.
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If nicotine is so bad for you, why do they put it in patches?
Answer: the “clean” nicotine in patches is very safe and helps people quit smoking. It’s the other
chemicals in tobacco smoke that cause the most harm.
How long does it take the nicotine in a cigarette to reach your brain after taking a puff?
1. 1 minute
2. 7 seconds
3. 1 hour
Answer: 7 seconds
Which condition is worsened by second hand smoke?
1. Chicken pox
2. Asthma
3. Mumps
Answer: Asthma
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What two body parts can be stained yellow from smoking?
Possible answers: teeth, fingers, beard/moustache
What are some reasons why non-smokers say they won’t date a smoker?
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Smell bad
Not fun to kiss them
Tend to be less active
Spend all their money on tobacco
Bad breath
True or false: tobacco use makes the heart beat slower.
False: the heart beats faster and harder to pump blood through narrowed blood vessels caused
by tobacco use.
Can smoking make pimples worse?
Yes, smoking harms your immune system. This can mean that pimples stick around longer, cuts
take longer to heal, and it’s harder to get over colds/flu.
Which of the following tobacco products is not harmful?
5.
6.
7.
8.
Cigarettes
Cigarillos or little cigars
Tobacco Hookah pipe
None of the above
Answer: none of the above. Many young people think smoking through a hookah pipe “cleans”
the smoke, but this is false.
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Have smoking scenes in youth-rated movies been banned?
No, in fact smoking is alive and well in youth rated movies. It has doubled between 2010-2012.
Legacy 2012
True or false: if kids see people smoking in movies they are more likely to become smokers
themselves?
Answer: True. According to the US Surgeon General, smoking in movies is one of the most
powerful ways that tobacco companies market their product to youth.
US Surgeon General 2012
Which movie company shows the most scenes with tobacco in child & youth-rated movies?
1.
2.
3.
4.
Disney
Viacom
Time Warner
Sony
Time Warner, with an average of 27 tobacco incidents per child & youth-rated movie. Disney is
one of the best at avg. 9 incidents per movie.
CDC Fact sheet Smoking in Movies
How many trees are cut down every year to cure tobacco leaves?
1. 1 million
2. 600 million
3. 450,000
Answer: 600 million trees are used to cure tobacco leaves to make cigarettes, in addition to the
land used to grow tobacco.
True or false: tobacco is grown in Canada.
Answer: true: tobacco is still grown in Ontario and Quebec and sold to make cigarettes.
Are cigarette butts biodegradable?
Answer: no, cigarette filters contain plastic fibres, which never break down completely in the
environment.
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Stay Smoke-Free and Healthy Activity Book
For First Nations Youth Tobacco Awareness
The Stay Smoke-free and Healthy activity book has been designed for children in
grades 5 and 6.
It explains the historical and cultural use of tobacco by First Nations and emphasizes
the health effects of smoking and its consequences on our environment.
Using playful activities (such as games, puzzles and pictures), the youth are made
aware of the risks related to the use of tobacco and are better informed when they make
their own choices.
To view workbook visit: https://centredoc.cssspnql.com/cgi-bin/koha/opacdetail.pl?biblionumber=657
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