Lesson 8-7: Tobacco:
You Decide!
Procedures: 1.
Show the transparency of the D.A.R.E. Decision Making process steps. Review the components of the process with your students. Emphasize the importance of clarifying decisions and identifying consequences; be sure students have considered the varying consequences involved in a decision to smoke, including both health and social consequences.
2.
Discuss tobacco use as an example of a behavioral choice that has multiple consequences. Ask your students to suggest possible outcomes
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of a decision to use tobacco. For example: W
disappointing or offending friends and other peers
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disappointing or angering parents and other adults
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breaking school rules or the law
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adding to tobacco companies' revenues
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influencing others to try and use tobacco products
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preventing the purchase of other products because of the cost of tobacco products.
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3.
health consequences
Go back to the list of reasons for why young people use tobacco products that the class developed in Lesson 8-5. For example: W
“It makes me feel cool”
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“To be accepted”
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“It is something to do”
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“It makes me look older”
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“I need the energy boost it gives me”
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“It helps me relieve stress”
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“It is an easy way to have fun with my friends.
Ask your students to brainstorm alternative activities or choices through which to address these issues without resorting to tobacco use.
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