Name of the Video

Recommended Grade Level

Brief Description

Ad-Libbing It

Ages 11-15

(18 minutes)  This video and accompanying lesson will help you teach middle school and junior high school students about the misleading advertisements used to sell nicotine and alcohol products.

Brainwash

Tobacco Free Challenge Project

Ages 10-14

(12 minutes) Focuses on tobacco industry advertising and promotions targeted to young people.  Teaches youth how to decode messages by contrasting imagery with the reality of short and long term consequences of smoking. Includes brief sexual innuendo related to Joe Camel image.

“Christy Turlington: Anti-smoking PSA”

Public Service Announcement

(Two 30 second spots) ACS produced.  MTV teamed with ACS and Christy on these 2 PSA’s

Death In The West

High School & Up

(32 minutes)  This is a documentary of six smoking cowboys—all dying of smoking-induced illnesses.  It exposes the dark side of media manipulation.

Dirty Business

(23 minutes)  This video is a powerful anti-smoking program because it was written by “media guru”, Tony Schwartz.  It uses the same advertising techniques used by tobacco companies—only “advertising” against tobacco.

Drug-Free Assembly 1997

Dusty the Dragon and

Dr. Margie Hogan Talk About  Tobacco

Grades 3-6

(12 minutes)  A color video that uses animation, live action, and rap music to teach kids tobacco resistance skills.  It also explains the medical and social costs of tobacco, and simplifies difficult concepts for young viewers.

FDA Regulations:

National Town Meeting

Fighting Back:

Communities Beating Big Tobacco

(12 minutes, 22 seconds)  This video gives you an inside look at how local groups can take action against Big Tobacco in their own communities.

Getting The Message…

About Tobacco

(15 minutes)  This video provides an entertaining view of how our brains process messages sent to us about smoking and tobacco.  It is designed to help viewers challenge every message they receive regarding the issues that can affect their lives.

Head and Neck Cancer—Bad News About the Good Life

Used in TEG & TAP programs.

Huffless Puffless Dragon

Upper Elementary/

Jr. High

(9 minutes and 2 seconds)  This video is produced by the American Cancer Society.  It is an animated cartoon, which speaks to the health hazards of smoking.

Indian Health Service:

Public Service Announcement

Public Service Announcement

(15 second spot)  This PSA is directed at youngsters’ concerns that their own tobacco use could influence their younger siblings to start.  The PSA is entitled “Rabbit”.

It’s Not a Walk in the Park

Teenagers

(17 minutes and 36 seconds)  This video is produced by the American Cancer Society.  Laryngectomees discuss with teenagers reasons not to smoke.

Kick Butts Day:  How To Get Involved Video

(4 minutes)  This video gives a brief description on how an individual/group can get involved with Kick Butts Day.  This is a program established through the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids.

Me, Myself…And Smoking

Grades 5-9

(22 minutes)  This video uses a humorous, devil’s advocate approach to teach middle school students about the hazards of smoking

Poisoning Our Children:  The Perils of Secondhand Smoke

Adults

(12 minutes)  This video shows parents, grandparents, educators and others the importance of not smoking around children.  Dr. Snyderman presents disturbing statistics on the harmful effects of secondhand smoke on children.

Smart Move!

(18 minutes) Produced by the American Cancer Society.  A slide presentation on the dangers of smoking and benefits of quitting.

SLAM!

Grades 6-12

(15 minutes)  This video tells the story of Leslie Nuchow, a talented unsigned singer/songwriter, and the attempts of Phillip Morris Tobacco Company to sign her to their record company called Woman Thing Music.  SLAM! provides young people with information and inspiration to resist the influence of the tobacco industry.

Smokeless Tobacco: Check It Out

Teens

(11 minutes)  Produced by the American Cancer Society.  It delivers a message to teens using a rock music group.

Smokeless Tobacco:  Your Habit or Your Life

Grade 7-Adult

(16 minutes) Using interviews with smokeless tobacco users who developed cancer and a dentist who has seen up close the damage smokeless tobacco can cause, this video debunks the myths and exposes snuff and chewing tobacco as the addictive, dangerous drugs they are.

Smoking: The Toxic Truth

High School

The video begins with students talking about smoking and how they became addicted.  Interviews are held with a person battling cancer of the larynx.  Also discussion held on harmful chemicals in cigarettes, how tobacco use affects athletic performance, and physical and mental effects of smoking.

“Sophisticated Lady”

Public Service Announcement

(30 second & 15 second spots) ACS produced this PSA shows a beautiful model that turns grotesque as smoking does to her outside what it does to her insides.

“Spit It Out”: 

Don’t Use Smokeless Tobacco

Pre-teen and Teen

(11 minutes and 11 seconds)  This video features high school students discussing dangers of smokeless tobacco.  It includes an interview with an oral cancer patient.  Contains original rap music.

Stop the Sale

Prevent the Addiction

Teens

(26 minutes)  This video is intended to inspire viewers to take action in the communities.  The first 8-minute section called the “Tempting Years” highlights some of the influences—parents, peers, tobacco company advertising, etc.—that lead young people to smoke cigarettes or use spit tobacco.  There is a facilitator’s guide that accompanies the tape.

(The) Teen Files

Smoking—Truth or Dare?

TEG & TAP students

(34 minutes)  This program demonstrates to teens who use tobacco exactly what this deadly habit is doing to them.

Tobacco Free Montana: 

Media Training Video

(The) Tobacco Horror Picture Show

TEG & TAP students

(28 minutes and 26 minutes)  The video comes with a teacher’s guide and worksheets.

(The) Truth About Tobacco

Teens

(17 minutes)  This video uses dramatic scenes, contemporary graphics and real teenagers giving their thought on the use of tobacco.  There is a Leader’s Guide that accompanies the tape.

(The) Truth About Tobacco with Patrick Smith

Grades 6-12

(40 minutes) This video is done in two 20-minute segments.  The speaker, P. Reynolds,  is the grandson of the founder of RJ Reynolds tobacco.  His presentation is a powerful reminder of all the reasons to avoid tobacco—he uses segments of videos, posters and overhead slides to enhance his presentation. 

“Yul Brynner”

Public Service Announcement

(30 second spot) ACS produced.  A personal message made just before he died of lung cancer.

Name of Program

Recommended

Grade Level

Brief Description

Dangerous Game

(Video and booklet)

Grades 9-12

(6 minute video)  This program has a video that is designed to provide information and trigger student discussion about the risks of using smokeless tobacco.    It also comes with a teacher’s guide with a lesson plan and a section on additional activities.

Saying No To Tobacco

(Book only)

Grades 5-8

This book has been written to provide teachers with a structured sequence of classroom activities to augment the information and skills presented in Danny’s Dilemma and Tobacco: The Real Story.  The goal of both the books and the curriculum is to prevent the use of tobacco by preadolescents.  (DCHD does not have either of these books.)

Smoke Screeners:

An educational program to help young people decode smoking in the movies.

(Booklet, video and poster)

Middle and Early High School

Ages 11 to 14

(45 minute lesson including video time)  This program invites youth to become critical movie and TV viewers.  By drawing attention to how smoking is normalized or glamorized in many films and on TV, Smoke Screeners will increase student awareness of tobacco use in popular entertainment.

Spit Tobacco Kills:  Extreme Danger of Chewing and Dipping Tobacco

(Booklet and video)

Grades 7-12

(28 minute video)  This program shows viewers that the nasty habit of dipping or chewing tobacco actually kills young people.  Hard-hitting and honest, this program aims to convince viewers that tobacco is deadly, no matter how you use it.

Telling Fact From Fiction:

A Health Education Action Packet to Reduce the Influence of Tobacco Advertising on Youth

(Folder—we have two)

Ages 8-18

This folder includes materials for the teacher and for the youth.  This action packet provides young people the opportunity to learn b taking action related to a real problem: tobacco.  There are different project options offered in the packet.

Up In Smoke:

The Extreme Danger of Smoking Tobacco

(Booklet and video)

Grades 7-12

(29 minute video)  This video presents the ugly side of nicotine addiction.  Not only will viewers hear from peers who assert that smoking causes wrinkles and bad breath, but they will also learn the truth from young adults who have lived through the horrors of emphysema, throat cancer, respiratory disease, lung cancer, and the development of “hairy tongue”.  The teacher’s resource book of student assignments reinforces the video’s lesson.

Media Sharp:

Analyzing Tobacco & Alcohol Messages

(3-ring binder and video)

Ages 11 – 14

(7 minute video)  This two-part, seven-minute video accompanies the Media Sharp guide.  Objectives: enhance the ability of youth to assess media messages about alcohol and tobacco; increase youth’s understanding of the potential influence of such messages on behavior; and to heighten youth’s ability to resist the influence of such media messages on their behavior.

Name of Program

Materials Included

Brief Description

Freshstart

Participant’s Guide

The American Cancer Society’s freshstart program is designed to help an individual stop smoking for good.  The program consists of four one-hour, small group sessions.  This program requires a facilitator.

Helping Teens Stop Using Tobacco (TAP)

Facilitator’s guide and

Student’s guidebook

The eight-session curriculum, geared toward young people, provides information, opportunities for self- assessment and challenging weekly assignments to help participants quit using cigarettes or chewing tobacco.  Used for grades 7-12.

“I can quit any time I want.”

“How-to” Guide (1),

Video (1),

Posters (2),

Tent Cards (25),

“Dear Employee Communication (1),

Press Release (1),

HMO/Insurance Company Checklist (10),

Reordering Business Reply Card (3),

Smoking Cessation Reference Guide (1)

This program is designed to be a quit-smoking program that the employer would establish.  This program provides information in such a manner that the program would be one that could be easy to implement for an employer.

In Control:

A Video Freedom From Smoking Program

Viewer’s Guide,

a video, and

an audio cassette (currently missing)

This is a self-guided program.  This program is designed to provide one with the benefits of a structured smoking cessation program while still allowing flexibility to accommodate one’s schedule and requirements.

Intervening With Teen Tobacco Users (TEG)

Facilitator’s guide and

Student guidebook

This support group curriculums for students in grades7-12 who have been caught in violation of school rules on tobacco use.  A positive alternative to suspension, this structured eight-session program uses a combination of lectures, videos, demonstrations, and cooperative learning activities to give young people the knowledge, motivation and action steps to make good decisions about tobacco use.

Quitting for Life:

Self Care Handbook

Handbook

This self-guided program helps smokers quit by focusing on the physical benefits of quitting and helping them to tackle emotional barriers that can stand in the way.  Checklists and quizzes help readers examine why they want to quit, discover their smoking triggers, and evaluate their level of addiction.  It also helps to develop a customized quit-smoking plan.

A Pregnant Woman’s Guide To Quit Smoking

(5^th Edition)

Handbook

This is a self-guided program that runs for ten days.  It is designed to have expectant mothers quit smoking in a week.  There are steps involved in each day’s lesson.

The S.T.O. P. Guide:

The Smokeless Tobacco Outreach & Prevention Guide

S.T.O. P. Guide

(3 ring binder)

This is a comprehensive directory of smokeless tobacco prevention and cessation resources.  It includes nine chapters:

Chapter 1:  Prevalence of Snuff & Chewing Tobacco Use In the United States

Chapter 2:  Legislation and Litigation

Chapter 3:  Tobacco Industry Marketing, Sales and Promotion

Chapter 4:  Ingredients in Smokeless Tobacco

Products

Chapter 5:  Health Problems Associated with

Smokeless Tobacco Use

Chapter 6:  School Based Prevention of Smokeless Tobacco Use

Chapter 7:  Smokeless Tobacco Cessation

Chapter 8:  Resources

Chapter 9:  Bibliography

Name of Material

Recommended Grade Level

Brief Description

(The) ABC’s Of Smoking Chart

Jr. High-Adult

A flip chart that tells the ABC’s of tobacco related words such as diseases and terminology.

BB Demonstration

Upper Elementary-Adult

This auditory demonstration informs listeners about the deaths caused each day by heroin and morphine, cocaine, alcohol and tobacco.  Very dramatic demonstration.

Inflatable Cigarette

Jr. High-Adult

The oversized cigarette demonstrates the amount of toxic chemicals that are inhaled by a smoker who smokes one pack a day for a year.  It also lists some of the deadly chemicals found in cigarettes.

Mechanical Smoker

Jr. High-Adult

This smoking device channels the tars and nicotine from a lighted cigarette onto a plastic mini-lung sheet.  The stained mini-lung sheet serves as a permanent record of the poisons in tobacco smoke.  Recommended that one use this device outside since it requires the burning of a cigarette.

Mr. Gross Mouth

All

Mr. Gross Mouth is a replica of a mouth and it shows the effects of spit tobacco/smokeless tobacco on the mouth, teeth and gums.

Mo the Moose costume

This character can be brought to life using the Mo costume.  Mo’s slogan is Mo says NO to tobacco!

Simulated Smoker’s Lungs

All

These actual lungs are kept in a white Rubbermaid container in a preservative.  The lungs can be inflated with the use of a manual air pump, which is included.

Smoked Lung

All

This lung is a replica of a black lung, which shows the cancer and damage (emphysema) from smoking.

Smoking Stinks!!

By Kim Gosselin

Grades 2-5

Jacket cover: Her school health report is due, but she can’t concentrate.  Maddie’s too worried about the loving grandfather she lives with.  Grandpa Norman is sick.  He has trouble breathing and coughs all the time.  Worse yet, he smokes cigarettes.  Smoking STINKS!!  It’s only when Maddie shares her troubles with her friend, Alex that she discovers how smoking really does STINK…in more ways than one.

You and Me Tobacco Free

By Judith K. Scheer, EdS, CHES

Grades K-2

Seven classroom activities in tobacco awareness.