Ad Libbing It, which is widely used in the program, students learn to make informed choices about the consequences of tobacco use. Public Health Division educator Pat Hastings teaches anti-smoking classes in northern New Mexico. She says that in many ways her job involves having to counter the cultural forces and the barrage of ads that entice young people into using tobacco. In my opinion, tobacco companies have really done a fantastic job that make it seem that using tobacco is normal, cool, fun, sexy and everybody's doing it. In this segment from the anti-smoking video, students are told of the toxic ingredients found in cigarettes.
Tobacco is the deadliest drug in the world.
It contains thousands of chemicals, some of which cause cancer and heart disease. It's a message that he tries to pass on to his peers. A student at Santa Fe High School, Roybal is one of a small legion of youth volunteers throughout the state, who work undercover to check on merchants that sell tobacco products to youth under 18. With a baby-face and a young voice and demeanor, Roybal is not easy to mistake for an adult. Yet, Roybal says he is able to make purchases in convenience stores time and again.