General Tobacco Information
What is Nicotine?
The addictive and poisonous drug found in tobacco
This cheap paper marketing “weapon” can be placed anywhere to tag devices or items for branding purposes.
What is a sticker?
RJ Reynolds once created a character who was more popular than Mickey Mouse. Name the character.
Who is Joe Camel?
This sport is commonly associated with smokeless tobacco
What is Baseball?
Two steps for quitting tobacco.
What is setting goals (written treatment plan), changing daily behavior, Tobacccofreeflorida.com, set a quit date, support system, attend classes, cut down on tobacco use.
The FDA regulates the manufacturing and marketing of tobacco in the US. What does FDA stand for?
What is the Food and Drug Administration?
This is a vehicle for whatever you want to show the world. It’s a cheap fun way to get your message across. Supplies needed include scissors, magazines, glue, paper and a poster board.
What is a Collage?
African Americans are more likely to smoke this type of cigarette.
What is Newport?
What is Menthol?
In 1990, the tobacco industry paid for advertising exposure in 100% of films in this rating.
What is PG-13?
The hardest and least successful method of quitting smoking.
What is 'Cold Turkey'?
Smoke that effects other individuals or pets in close proximity to the smoker.
What is second-hand smoke?
These phrases can be used when creating your art to help get your message out:
•We are a generation united against Big Tobacco
•Stand up and Speak out
•Big Tobacco = Sweet Deception
•unSpoken: giving voice back to those that tobacco has taken away
•They put what in a cigarette?!
•There is one enemy- Big Tobacco
•Big tobacco spends millions on targeting teens
•Not a Lab Rat
What are Key Messages?
This Florida Governor hosted the 1st teen tobacco summit in 1998. The summit helped springboard SWAT into what it is today.
Who is Governor Lawton Chiles?
Smokeless tobacco can lead to serious health problems. Name two
What is oral cancer, gum and tooth problems, high blood pressure, nicotine addiction
In what year did Florida voters pass an ammendment making all workplaces smoke-free, ending decades of being asked “smoking or non” when you went into a restaurant to eat?
What is 2002?
Number of people who die from smoking related causes annually in the United States.
What is >440,000?
When you cant think of anything else to use, these are effective ways to get your message across…
•89 Floridians die daily from tobacco related causes
•There are over 4000 chemicals in tobacco smoke
•Smokers are more likely to have hairier tongues
•Girls who smoke are twice as likely to get facial hair
•Puppies can die from eating just 2 cigarette butts
What are facts?
The amount of money the Tobacco Industry spends marketing tobacco products each day.
What is $26.3 Million?
In 1998, Big Tobacco had to admit ___________.
This is known as the Master Settlement Agreement.
What is targeting youth, lying about tobacco products being harmless, strategically creating products to be more addictive and attractive to certain demographics.
One example of a prescription medication that helps people quit smoking is
What is Chantix?
Smoke that commonly collects on curtains, furniture, clothes, vehicles, and pregnant women are often educated on this type of smoke.
What is Third-hand smoke.
This is a way to tell the public what the tobacco companies really think…
•“They got lips? We want them.” – RJR
•“We really need something for people to die of.” - British American Tobacco
•“Students are tremendously loyal. If you catch them, they’ll stick with you like glue.” – Phillip Morris
What are industry quotes?
This parent company is over companies that sell tobacco, wine, Kraft Foods, Oreos, Ritz, Oscar Mayer
Who is Phillip Morris?
Who is Altria?
List 3 poisonous household products that contain chemicals also found in spit tobacco
Nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) helps smokers quit. Name 2 FDA approved nicotine replacement products available today.
What are nicotine patches, nicotine gum, nicotine lozenges, nicotine inhaler, and nicotine nasal spray?