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| Smoking Confrontations | Informed Responses/Illustrations |
| All of the guys and girls smoke. | Wrong! At least 2/3's of teenagers don't smoke, the cool ones with a mind of their own. Fact: Most teenagers prefer to date non-smokers. (see slides u, w) |
| My parents smoke. | This means you're at a much greater risk for becoming a smoker yourself. You need to be even more on guard. |
| My parents (or my teacher) say "don't smoke". It seems like it's all right for them but not for me! |
It seems your parents (or your teacher) may be addicted to nicotine
and can't Do what they say and not what they do. Why not profit from their hard experience? |
| Marijuana is a naturally growing plant. How can it hurt me? | Tobacco, poison ivy and poisonous mushrooms are also naturally occurring plants! There are many examples of naturally occurring plants which can seriously harm or kill you. (see slides v, x) |
| Smoking is legal and a free choice. | Smoking is a double crime. You murder yourself by inhaling and you murder others by exhaling. |
| Smoking takes stress away |
NO! Smoking takes your money, breath and life away. (see slide h) Your second hand smoke and smokers' breath may also take some friends away. |
| I can smoke, it's a free country and an individual right. | You do have the individual right to demonstrate in public how uninformed you are. (see slides g, i) |
See CD-ROM-2 (Main Menu) for these and many other audiovisual interactive Exercises on how to say "NO" to tobacco.
*Selected dialogue adapted from "Kids Don't Smoke" (1991)
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