Peer Pressure
What is a peer?
Someone who is around your same age
True or False?: Most adults smoke cigarettes
False
What is the legal drinking age and why?
21 y/o because alcohol can mess up the developing of the brain of people under that age
_________ are the most affected by tobacco
Lungs
True or False?: If the tobacco companies say tobacco is safe to consume, we should believe them
False
Describe how a peer can influence you in a positive way.
Positive peer pressure can include encouraging someone to try out for a sports team, do their homework instead of playing video games, to make healthy choices, etc.
Is second hand smoking as dangerous as smoking cigarettes?
Yes
Name the three types of alcoholic beverages
Wine, beer, and liquor
_______ is most affected by alcohol because________
Liver; overworks the liver
Some ads are intended to be deceptive.
True
A girl is taking her cousin to a party. Her cousin just moved to town. As they reach the party, the girl tells her cousin to be sure to drink if he wants people to like him. What would you do?
Use any refusal strategies you want
What are the tobacco products we learned about?
Cigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, chewing tobacco and dip
Is alcohol a depressant or a stimulant.
Depressant
What are some short-time side effects of smoking
Yellowish fingers, bad breathe, coughing, the person smells like tobacco, dry hair and skin, green tint of the skin
How can the media and advertising can influence someone's decision making?
The media and advertising tend to lie and show only the "good" side of things
Role Play: Choose a friend role play a peer pressure situation
use the "make an excuse" strategy
This chemical is the substance that makes tobacco products addictive
nicotine
What is the number one consequence of using alcohol?
Addiction
Lung, throat, and mouth cancer.
Heart disease
Stroke
How can big corporation influence consumers to buy product
Usage of celebrity, sports, slogans
List 3 different ways you can say "no" to peer pressure.
-Walk Away
-Ignore
-Broken Record
-Give an Excuse
-Simple No
Explain how tobacco can affect the lungs, heart, liver, and skin
the smoke of the tobacco products enters the lungs affecting different parts of them making the lungs to work harder. If the lungs are overworking, the heart too because they work together. The liver is the filter of the body and the smoke and chemicals of the tobacco products, make the liver to work harder to the point where the liver no longer works. If the liver is not cleansing the body, the skin gets affected and turns greenish
People who chronically abuse alcohol may develop this serious disease of the liver.
Cirrhosis
When inhaling the smoke of the cigarettes, this organ must work harder and faster. Identify and locate.
Heart
Are the advertising always telling the truth?
Sometimes. Explain