Communication skills are one of the most fundamental working tools of the pharmacist and that is why we feel we should start putting them to use while we are students. The agents of the campaign will be pharmacy students who, on a voluntary basis, will receive appropriate information from IPSF, and who will go to schools or to children centres and establish contact with them. Materials have been prepared by IPSF to be used by members as a tool to implementing this project and are available upon request from the IPSF Secretariat. The children split into groups and take turns carrying out set role plays which help to teach them the social skills needed to resist peer pressures which often lead to start smoking. Summary The schoolchildren get the chance to look at each others posters made during the workshops and go back to talk to their teacher about the day.
Children get to fill a simple questionnaire and write a report on what they have learnt.
Table of Contents of the IPSF Tobacco Alert Booklet 1. Aims and Methods 3. Interacting with your target group 6. Keeping the campaign rolling 7. About one-third of adolescents in the United States smoke or use smokeless tobacco.