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Description

Learn about the effects of smoking

Resources

- Paper for each Six
- Markers and pencils

Instructions

Introduction
To discuss the risks to health of smoking, especially for young people.

Instructions
Start with a brainstorming session to discuss if any members of their family are smokers. Do they know when they started smoking?

Get the Brownies to discuss in their Sixes the health issues of smoking. Think of ways to encourage someone who smokes to give up smoking. Get each Six to come up with reasons why someone who smokes should give up smoking.

Discussion
Get each Six to share their reasons and see if they are the same/different. Here are some facts:
· Smoking is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke. One in every two smokers will die of a tobacco related disease
· Smokers are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as non-smokers
· Passive smoking is breathing in other people’s smoke. Children and older people are most at risk from exposure to passive smoking. Passive smoking can cause heart disease, stroke, cancers, asthma in children, sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) and middle ear infections
· In each cigarette there are 4,000 chemicals including 60 chemicals which are known to cause cancer - there is a diagram in the attached file

Tags

• Health
• IGG
• SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
• Smoking

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