smoking

Exuberant six-year-old Belle loves to dance with Grandma Bee, who needs an oxygen tank because she used to smoke, and as Belle tries to imagine a life without being able to dance, she makes a conscious decision to never start smoking. Includes eight vocabulary words with definitions.

Discusses the health risks and physical dangers caused by tobacco for teenagers, examining the cultural influences that lead teens to smoke cigarettes or use tobacco, and providing tips and advice to overcome a nicotine addiction.

Profiles the role of tobacco and smoking in times of war and in times of prosperity.

Contains comments by young people aged nine through seventeen about why they do not smoke tabacco and includes facts and figures about smoking.

Essays from various perspectives help students understand the dangers of teenage smoking, the methods used by the tobacco industry to encourage smoking, and the effectiveness of anti-smoking campaigns.

Provides basic consumer health information for teens on tobacco use, addictions, and related diseases and medical conditions. Includes a chronology of significant developments related to smoking and health and a list of additional resources.

Presents differing opinions on the addictiveness of tobacco, the responsibility of individual smokers, the health effects of tobacco use, and other related issues.

Provides arguments against reasons people use to not quit smoking tobacco and strategies to help smokers give up the habit.

Examines some of the reasons why teenagers smoke, and discusses strategies for reducing or preventing teenage smoking.

Nick Naylor, chief spokesman for the Academy of Tobacco Studies, is accustomed to being harassed, heckled, and vilified by antismoking zealots, but things turn really ugly when he is forced to step up his efforts on behalf of smoking in order to keep his job.