Tobacco: Just Say kNOw DVD

Tobacco: Just Say kNOw DVD is a great Tobacco Prevention program for Great American Smoke-Out or Red Ribbon Week

Teen narrators guide younger students through a lively question and answer format that delivers hard facts about tobacco: the drug nicotine addicts you, while the tar and other chemicals and toxins in cigarettes arsenic, cadmium, formaldehyde, etc. kill you. Stresses that the deadly diseases caused by smoking cancer, emphysema, and heart disease may not be so far away in the “distant future.”  Public Health expert Dr. Deborah Coleman-Wallace describes specific health effects: the process of addiction, the development of tolerance, and the miserable symptoms of withdrawal.  Tobacco use affects your immune system.  Damaged cells can grow into tumors and cause damage to your organs that’s cancer.  High school students advise: don’t let tobacco steal your health, your money, your time, and reasoning, and inspires healthy behavior, supporting the choice to stay away from tobacco.  One student sums it up: “Smoking is NOT cool”.  13 min DVD with Presenter’s Resource Guidebook.  Grades 5-9

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