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__Lesson Plan__ __For Day 1 of Club Meeting__

**Subject: Smoking**


 * Concept: Underage Smoking**


 * Objective: To teach students in the club the negative effects of smoking**


 * Materials:**
 * ** Facts for warm-up activity **
 * ** Envelopes **

** Attention Grabber/Warm-up: ** 1.) About half of all Americans who keep smoking will die because of the habit. 2.) Smoking can cause heart attacks and strokes. 3.) Smoking causes around one in five deaths from heart disease. 4.) Cigarette smoking during pregnancy increases the risk of low birth weight, prematurity, spontaneous abortion, and perinatal mortality in humans, which has been referred to as the fetal tobacco syndrome. 5.) Each year about 443,600 people in the United States die from illnesses related to tobacco use. Smoking cigarettes kills more Americans than alcohol, car accidents, suicide, AIDS, homicide, and illegal drugs combined 6.) Cigarette smoking accounts for at least 30% of all cancer deaths. It is linked with an increased risk of the following cancers: 7.) Smoking can make pneumonia and asthma worse. It has been linked to other health problems, too, including gum disease, cataracts, bone thinning, hip fractures, and peptic ulcers. Some studies have also linked smoking to macular degeneration, an eye disease that can cause blindness.
 * Before the lesson, put one of these facts in an envelope. You will write, “If you start smoking” on the front of each envelope.
 * Hand out an envelope per student. Ask them them open them and read the fact aloud.
 * Discuss how they feel about what they just read.
 * Below are the facts to copy, cut, and place in the envelope.
 * lung
 * larynx (voice box)
 * oral cavity (mouth, tongue, and lips)
 * pharynx (throat)
 * esophagus (tube connecting the throat to the stomach)
 * stomach
 * pancreas
 * cervix
 * kidney
 * bladder
 * acute myeloid leukemia