Lungs Are For Life is the Ontario Lung Association's smoking prevention program for students from kindergarten through Grade 12. Despite the fact that Ontario law prohibits the sale of tobacco to any person under 19, adolescence is the usual starting time for smokers.
Lungs Are For Life is designed to stop children from ever picking up that first cigarette.
The teaching materials and classroom activities help students develop the skills they need to prevent them from smoking or using other harmful drugs such as cannabis and alcohol. The program tries to influence and encourage children to explore their own ideas about smoking and to make informed decisions on facts, not on peer pressure. Lungs Are For Life has been designed to meet the Overall and Specific Expectations as outlined in the Substance Use and Abuse component of the HPE Curriculum. In addition, many other expectations in mathematics, language, science and technology, and the arts, will be met. Lungs Are For Life provides students with information on health and social consequences and attempts to motivate students to resist pressures to use substances.