Key Stage 1 How to make simple choices that improve their health and well-being. Which commonly available substances and drugs are legal and illegal, their effects and risks. Pupils could investigate the reasons why people do things which they know are harmful and discuss ways to resist such pressures. Despite the efforts that have gone into combating teenage smoking over the past five years, if anything, it has increased. A recent survey revealed that more than one in eight English school children between the ages of 11 and 15 smokes regularly.
Most smokers take up smoking in their school years.
Simply educating young people about the risks of smoking is not enough. Young people are exposed to considerable pressures to smoke at a time when their future health often has a low priority. They must be equipped to resist these pressures. These have been taken from the National Curriculum, 1999. Key Stage 3 Basic facts and laws, including school rules, about alcohol and tobacco, illegal substances and the risks of misusing prescribed drugs.