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Resources: Video showing anti-smoking TV advertisement.

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Questions / instructions:
There are lots of advertisements that encourage people to not take up smoking cigarettes, or to give up if they already smoke. We are going to see one of these advertisements shortly.

But before we watch the video, I would like you to tell me how you think smoking cigarettes might affect the smoker.

1. When a person first starts smoking, say in the first month - how might that affect them?

Possible positive effects:

increased self-image, peer acceptance
feel more relaxed, less stressed
appetite reduced

Possible negative effects:

throat irritation / coughing / nausea
complications of asthma, flu, etc.
financial and lifestyle costs
isolation: smokefree policies, smell of clothes
longer term consequences, not appropriate to question (diseases, addiction, death)

2. How about after a long time of smoking, say 10 to 20 years - how might that affect them?

Possible negative effects:

throat irritation / coughing / nausea
complications of asthma, flu, etc.
financial and lifestyle costs
isolation: smokefree policies, smell of clothes
damage to heart, lungs, blood vessels
diseases: cancer, bronchitis, etc.
addiction

3. How does someone who is smoking affect other people around them?
Prompt: Can you explain that further?

passive smoking effects
complicates illness
exerts peer pressure

4. What do you think might be some of the reasons why people start smoking - even though advertisements like this show that smoking is bad for your health?

peer pressure
image
experimentation
others example
short term physical benefits

5. Do you think you might have a go at smoking one day?

yes
maybe
no