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:
Lesson One
Tobacco 101 -- Intro to Tobacco
Lesson Four
Flavored Tobacco, Menthol and E-Cigarettes
Lesson Seven
Sharing Our Findings: Taking Action
Lesson Ten
Environmental Impact
Lesson Two
Marketing and Advertising: What You See is Not Always What You Get
Lesson Five
People Power vs. Tobacco Industry
Lesson Eight
Price Discounting
Lesson Eleven
Mental Health and Nicotine
Lesson Three
Child Labor in the Tobacco Industry
Lesson Six
What is the Tobacco Industry Doing in my Neighborhood?
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.