Students will describe the personal financial benefits of not using tobacco. Teaching Steps 1. Review health consequences of tobacco use. Brainstorm reasons people use tobacco. Brainstorm reasons people don't use tobacco.
Small groups calculate costs of tobacco use.
Reflect, summarize and discuss. Provide newsprint or butcher paper and markers for students. Provide scrap paper for students. Check the cost in your community for a pack of several different brands of cigarettes and a tin of some different chewing tobaccos. Permission is granted to reproduce for educational non-commercial uses if this message is shown.