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Tobacco Prevention Program
For Students
The
Minnesota Smoking Prevention Program addresses the prevention of tobacco use by
influencing the social and psychological factors that encourage the onset of
smoking cigarettes or using smokeless tobacco.
This six-session classroom curriculum includes a review of the major
social influences that encourages and support tobacco use among youth. These important initiating factors include
peer pressure, advertising, and a lack of behavioral skills with which to resist
these influences.
This program is specifically designed to help adolescents
1.
Identify
reasons why people start using tobacco.
2.
Discover
that non-use of tobacco is normative behavior.
3.
Practice
skills for resisting peer pressure to use tobacco.
4.
Recognize
the covert messages in tobacco advertising.
Decide their own personal reasons for not using tobacco.
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