Lesson 1: The Power Is Yours!

• Analyze how tobacco use and exposure negatively impacts the user, friends, family members, and community members.

• Evaluate environment and social factors, especially advertising strategies, which may influence young people to use tobacco.

Lesson 2: Be Influenced-In a Positive Way-To Make Positive Decisions

• Analyze how tobacco use and exposure negatively impacts the user, friends, family members, and community members.

• Evaluate environment and social factors, especially advertising strategies, which may influence young people to use tobacco.
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Lesson 3: Protect Yourself and Others From Risk - Part 1

• Recognize risky situations that may lead to trouble, so that one can protect oneself and others from tobacco use.

• Apply problem-solving skills to hypothetical situations to protect oneself and others from tobacco.
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Lesson 4: Protect Yourself and Others from Risk - Part 2

• Demonstrate effective refusal skills to counter pressure to use tobacco.

• Demonstrate skills to avoid hazards due to another person's use of tobacco.
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Lesson 5: Resources to Help Self and Others

• Locate resources in one's school and community, and on the Internet, for information and assistance regarding tobacco, and assess the validity of the resources.

• Demonstrate ways to support people who are abstaining from and/or trying to quit using tobacco.
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Lesson 6:  The Power to Be Tobacco Free

• Describe a variety of needs young people may have, explain healthy ways to meet these needs without using tobacco and make personal commitment to remain tobacco free.

• Compose persuasive advice for peers on how to stay tobacco free.
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