• Activity 3
Tobacco and Health
This activity looks at how smoking and growing tobacco can be bad for your health Objectives To find out about the health risks linked to growing and harvesting tobacco
To think about the health risks linked to smoking cigarettes To reflect on the health and wellbeing of both tobacco growers and smokers Materials
� Several prints of the two photos ( one for each small group ) � Coloured cards � Copies of Health Information Cards � Internet access
Procedure �
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Split the class into small groups . Each group will have two photos to look at – one showing a young person in Malawi , working on a tobacco farm , the other one showing a young person , smoking . Ask the groups to discuss and write down on coloured cards the health risks for the two young people in the photo . Ask them to select one colour for each photo . You could give them a copy of the Health Risks Info Card to help or / and they can use the Internet Now ask the groups to discuss and write down the reasons why the person in the photo might smoke or have to work growing tobacco . Finally ask them to discuss how smoking or growing tobacco might affect the lives of the people in the photo in any other ways and to write them down . Now ask the groups to look at their ideas and see if there are any similar ideas written on both coloured cards . These will be things which could affect both young people .
Discussion Points
� What are the health risks for the Malawi young person ? � What are the health risks for young people smoking ? � Why might young people start smoking ? � Why might young people have to work on tobacco farms in Malawi ?
Debrief and reflection
Ask the class if they knew about the risks of working on tobacco farms ? How do they feel now about smoking ? Do they think this information will influence their choice to start or quit smoking ?
Evaluation
Students create posters , comics , ppt presentations to introduce their ideas . They can create flyers and hand them out at school , local cafes , youth centres etc .
By : Bulgarian team
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