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The purpose of this activity is to make you more knowledgeable on the effects of smoking. Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health, but what is it really doing to society? To others? To yourself? If people are able to educate others on the effects of smoking, it may increase their success in the cessation process.
Background: For a quick resource sheet, click here. Also, from the same site listed above, click on "There's Hope for Minnesotans"
Here is another fact sheet.
I am very passionate about this subject and have gained a lot of knowledge in it rcently. I think it is really important to educate people on the effects of smoking because as a health educator, we want to work on primary intervention, not tertiary.
Resources:
We all Pay the Price
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Smoking and Tobacco Use
American Lung Association: Stop Smoking
The Health Consequences of Smoking: A Report of the Surgeon General
Instructions: View the suggested fact sheets above. Then Click here to take survey on the effects of smoking. On the survey you will be asked 10 questions. Please select the correct answer and submit your survey when finished.
Good luck!
It was really interesting to see all of the statistics. I hear about smoking stats about the U.S. all the time but it was neat to see the ones that were specific to Minnesota. It seems like all of the efforts have really made the prevalence of smoking a lot less. Keep it up, Kristy!
ReplyDeleteHaha, this makes me smile that you are sharing about smoking, what a surprise! Just kidding! It was really neat that your facts were based around Minnesota that really hit home with me, especially the emotional facts. That reminded me of the time when the dad of one of my friends from high school passed away due to cancer from smoking. Seeing how much the family was impacted by his decision to smoke is a reminder to me that what you do affects a lot more people than just yourself.
ReplyDeleteThe statistics for Minnesota definitely had the most impact. The economic costs are shocking! How can people spend so much on smoking just to ruin their health?!
ReplyDeleteI really like your topic, because it is so important to society. I saw a commercial today that hit home. It talked about all the deaths in one year in Minnesota. I am excited to do your activity and learn some additional information.
ReplyDeletethis was a very interesting activity. The sites that you had hyper linked were very fascinating and contained a lot good in-depth information. I really liked the first fact sheet you had hyper linked. It was really dramatic and really made me take notice of the issue.
ReplyDeleteThe statistics really put things into perspective, I know we hear it a lot but every time i see something smoking related it continues to open my eyes.
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