Tobacco use also has social, financial and emotional consequences. Discuss tobacco advertisements. Distribute the ads you have collected. Discuss the purpose of advertising and what the ads depict about tobacco use. The health effects of tobacco use are either downplayed or ignored by the tobacco industry.
Students talk back to ads.
Have students post the ads around the room. Reflect, summarize and discuss. Encourage students to browse among the ads and read all the messages that have been posted. As students get older, they will make more and more of their own decisions, including buying decisions. Advertisements don't show negative effects of their products because their purpose is to get people to buy the products.