Year 8

YEAR 8 – PASSIVE SMOKING AND ADDICTION 

Logistics : Working in groups – may need tables
                Number of children: 30 max
                Lesson time: 1 Hour
                DVD Player required

Warning:  Some graphic images are used

SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVES
A look at how smoking can affect other people and how we can be affected by other people’s smoke.  This can be a sensitive issue due to parents smoking which is why we also cover addiction and look at how difficult it can be to stop smoking.

ACTIVITIES

“FILL IN THE GAPS” BODY
Students must try and complete what harm passive smoking can cause by filling in the gaps on a blank body.

PASSIVE SMOKING GROUP QUIZ
Students form teams and hold up A, B or C answers.

PRINGLES GAME
To represent addiction, one pringle is given to each student at the start of the session and then the tube is left visible for the rest of the session.

After the quizzes we question why the Pringles have been used, we discuss the brain and how nicotine addiction works.  We then take a look at a video where a woman, despite having had a tracheotomy and throat cancer still smokes.  This is a very short clip but demonstrates very well how addictive cigarettes can be.