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Smoking
Hazardous to Your
Health
The Facts
Smoking:
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Is addictive – more than heroine or cocaine
Makes your clothes, hair and breath smell
Turns your teeth and fingers yellow
Increases risk of stroke and heart attack
Increases risk of developing diabetes
Is the most common cause of lung, throat
and mouth cancer
(Website Source: http://www.cyh.com/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetails.aspx?p=240&np=158&id=2099)
Australian Statistics in 2009
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30% of men and 27% of women are smokers
Average 18 cigarettes a day
By the age of 15, 25% of boys and 28% of girls are
smokers
(source: www.smokingstatistics.org)
Smoking causes 80% of all drug related deaths
(Source: www.cyh.com)
Why Do Young People
Start Smoking?
Think of Some Reasons
Some Reasons:
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Young people are attracted to the image:
There friends are smoke
Family are smoke
Cultural Influences
Source: Children Youth and Women’s Health Service
What are in Cigarettes?
Do YOU know?
Over 4000 Chemicals!!!!
(60 of which are carcinogenic)
Source: www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/whats-in-a-cigarette)
(Source: www.willwilliams.co.uk/common-issues/smoking/whats-in-a-cigarette)
What are some of the
consequences of
smoking?
Stroke
Stomach
Cancer
Emphysema
Heart
Disease
Lung
Cancer
Smoking
Throat
Cancer
Bladder
Cancer
But what does these
things really look like?
How do these images
make you feel?
Website Source: http://smokefreewic.com/Facts/Smoking.html
(Website Source: www.quitsmokingpainlesslynow.com/.../
Website Source: http://www.kaheel7.com/eng/index.php/health-a-medicine/80-smoking-the-21st-epidemic-disease
Anti-Smoking
Campaigns
Let’s Have A Look At
Some
Image Courtesy of ClipArt
Answer the following:
• Who is the audience?
• What is the campaign trying to say?
• How does they make you feel?
• Do you think the message is clear
and effective?
Your Task:
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Design your own anti-smoking campaign.
Choose your audience (peers, parents,
friends, smokers in general)
Choose your media
Consider which emotions you are targeting
(fear, guilt, shock)
Think about the main message of your
campaign.
But wait……
There’s hope……
People can and do quit smoking
But, it won’t be easy because smoking is
an addiction.
Final Task
To compile a resource kit for your
target audience to assist them to quit
smoking.
 Include things such as information, tips
and strategies, support groups, help
lines.
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the end
thank you for your
listening