Tobacco Use

Grade 7-8

The Power Is Yours to Be Tobacco Free
Content 

• Health benefits of abstaining from use

• Health, legal, social and financial consequences of use

Skills

• Analyze influences to use tobacco

• Recognize risky situations and protect self and others

• Abstain from use (refusal)

• Support others who abstain

• Support others who want to quit

• Counter negative influences

• Promote the norm of abstinence

• Avoid secondhand smoke

• Access resources
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Grade 9-12

Teens Campaign Against Tobacco
Content 

• Factors that contribute to positive health behaviors

• Health benefits of abstaining from use

• Resources for information, help, and cessation

• Financial, political, social, health, and legal issues related to tobacco

• Messages that will encourage youth not to use or to quit

Skills

• Advocate for the prevention, reduction, or elimination of use among peers

• Promote a tobacco-free environment

• Abstain from use (refusal)

• Encourage others to abstain

• Quit using

• Encourage others to quit

• Support others who want to quit

• Access resources
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