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TOBACCO 101

What is Tobacco 101?

“Tobacco 101: A Teacher’s Guide to Anti-Tobacco Lesson Planning” is a free, web-accessible, ten-lesson guide that will help you teach your students about the harms of tobacco and the deceptive marketing tactics of the tobacco industry, all while supporting their development into young tobacco prevention advocates. 

The curriculum is geared towards middle and high school students and can be used in a classroom, after school or out-of-school setting.

Within the guide you’ll find: downloadable resources, video and other multimedia links, activities for a variety of learning styles, hands-on student engagement, student-led discussion and learning and supplemental materials.

The guide contains 11 lessons. Click the images to access and download the lesson PDFs:

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Lesson One

Tobacco 101 -- Intro to Tobacco

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Lesson Four

Flavored Tobacco, Menthol and E-Cigarettes

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Lesson Seven

Sharing Our Findings: Taking Action

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Lesson Ten

Environmental Impact

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Lesson Two

Marketing and Advertising: What You See is Not Always What You Get

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Lesson Five

People Power vs. Tobacco Industry

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Lesson Eight

Price Discounting

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Lesson Eleven

Mental Health and Nicotine

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Lesson Three

Child Labor in the Tobacco Industry

 

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Lesson Six

What is the Tobacco Industry Doing in my Neighborhood?

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Lesson Nine

Electronic Cigarettes (Vapes): A Deeper Dive

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We hope you enjoy engaging your students with this fun, interactive tool aimed at helping them become young commercial tobacco prevention advocates in their own communities. Please contact 

tobacco101@ansrmn.org with questions.

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