Discuss pressures to use tobacco. Discuss pressures on students at this age. Peer pressure, or peer influence, can actually be positive or negative. Students need to weigh the positives and negatives of their choices and then make the best choice, the choice that will keep them healthy.
Students research tobacco facts.
Discuss ways to say no. Then give students the student page and ask them to write their own examples. Read story to class. Sam's Story Distribute the student page and read the story to the class. Then read it once again, asking students to look for the refusal skills Sam uses.