Tobacco Project

  • CH. 11 TOBACCO PROJECT – 25 PTS

    For years we have debated Marijuana use, but we continue to overlook deadly tobacco.  Those who smoke are enslaved to cigarettes, sucking poison into their bodies, soiling their lungs and damaging many other parts as well.  Despite all of the health findings, tobacco companies continue to encourage people to smoke.  Smoking is not only linked to lung cancer and heart disease, two of our biggest killers in America, but also to diabetes, colorectal and liver cancers, vision loss, TB, rheumatoid arthritis, impaired immune function, and cleft palates in children of women who smoke.  Did I mention bladder and cervical cancers, too?  Smoking is responsible for nearly 500,000 premature deaths a year.  Tobacco is about the only product I can think of that when used as directed, can kill you.  How can we debate marijuana use and ignore the mountain of cadavers from smoking cigarettes?  At the very least, it is a gateway drug to an early grave. 

    CVS, the second-largest drugstore chain in America, decided that tobacco products have no place in a health care setting.  They have vowed to phase out cigarettes, cigars and chewing tobacco by Oct. 1, 2014.  CVS stands to lose 2 billion dollar per year by pulling these products from their shelves.  That move speaks volumes about the dangers of tobacco.

     

    TASK:  To create a presentation that will persuade our government to ban all tobacco

                 products. 

     

    DIRECTIONS:

    1.       Log onto www.prezi.com and create an account, or use Power Point.

    2.      Research the following information in order to support your argument to make tobacco products illegal:

    -          Include all types of tobacco (cigarettes, pipes, herbal, smokeless)

    -          The 3 major carcinogens in cigarettes & the role they play

    -          Long-term & Short-term Health Problems/Damage to Body Parts (include brain, heart, lungs, skin, mouth, immune system, etc.)

    -          Quitting (Easy/Hard, Why?)

    -          Pregnancy & Smoking (Damage to the fetus/baby)

    -          Non-smoker Health Problems (Environmental Smoke, etc.)

    3.       Put your presentation together using www.prezi.com, or Power Point. 

    -          Be creative. 

    -          Choose a layout that supports the information you have gathered and will be effective in getting your point across. 

    -          Develop a Title & Slogan

    -          Include text, graphics, videos, and links to outside resources

    -          Be sure your presentation is error-free.

    RUBRIC:

    Title/Slogan(1 pt)

    Creativity/Layout/Effectiveness/Error-free (10  pts)

    Text/Graphics/Videos/Links (2 pts)

    Major Content (12 pts) - 2 pts each for the content areas list above in #2 of the directions