2. Background
● Smoking has many health risks & causes many diseases
○ Heart disease & Lung Cancer
● Movies are a powerful form of smoking promotion
○ Movies are very influential
● Smoking in youth is an important issue
○ Youth=You!!
● Majority of box office movies feature on-screen tobacco
○ Actors using or pretending to use tobacco products
● Most of those movies are youth-rated movies
4. Activity #1:
1. WHAT comes to mind when you think about smoking
and cigarettes?
2. WHERE do you see people smoking the most?
3. WHO do you think of when you hear “smoker”?
4. WHO do you usually see smoking in movies? Why?
5. WHY are movies used to promote smoking?
5. WHAT comes to mind when you think about
smoking and cigarettes?
● Is smoking cool? Tobacco companies want
you to think so!
● Trying to take something extremely toxic
and make it cool..don’t get manipulated!
● Health Risks
● Addiction
● Cost of cigarettes
6. WHERE do you see people smoking the most?
● Family members?
● Friends/Peers/School?
● Movies?
● Restaurants?
● Overall: Do you think its possible you see
more smoking in movies than you would in
your life?
7. WHO do you think of when you hear “Smoker”?
- Draw a picture of someone you can see with
a tobacco product
- How old are they? What are their hobbies?
What are their goals in life? What kind of
friends do they have? Are they a student or
do they work? If they work, why type of job
do they have?
8. WHO do you usually see smoking in movies? Why?
- Youth!
- Want to promote this addiction at an early age
- Cartoon characters smoke in movies
- Teenagers & rebellious youth seen smoking
- Higher class/wealthy people
- Example: Many Disney movies (stay tuned
for a video clip!)
10. WHY are movies used to promote smoking?
- “It’s the movies that have really been running things in
America ever since they were invented. They show you
what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about
it, and how to look at how you feel about it”
- Andy Warhol
- Movies can influence what we think is “cool”, how we
act and who we look up to.
14. Is smoking in movies ‘cool’?
So...what do you think now?
15. Why is this so important?
● 13,000 Ontarians die each year from tobacco-related
illness
● Tobacco remains the leading preventable cause of death
● Health risks:
○ Lung cancer & lung damage
○ Mouth, throat, kidney, stomach cancers (and many other cancers!)
○ Heart disease and heart attack
○ Faster aging, wrinkles, age spots on skin
○ Damaged & yellowed teeth and gums
○ Stained fingers
○ Hair loss
○ risk of osteoporosis- weakening of the bones
16. Health Effects of Smoking
Bill Nye Video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzT332vkWes
2mins
17.
18. Q & A
Raise your hand to answer a question!
If you answer a question, you’ll receive some
smoke-free movies swag!
19. Take Home Messages
● Smoking in movies can cause young people to
start smoking
● Tobacco companies are targeting youth
● Smoking is not all it is cracked up to be
● There are many, many, many health
consequences of smoking
● Be sure to not get influenced by what you see!
My name is _______ and I am a volunteer from Let's Talk Science. I am a student from the University of Guelph and I study ________. I chose to study ________ because ________ (or I knew that I wanted to be a scientist when... or one interesting thing about my work is...)
Ask the class:
Can you think of any movies you have seen recently that show characters smoking or show tobacco products?
Lots of Disney movies have characters smoking in them.
The main idea we want the students to take away from this question:
*use animation to bring in text after students discuss their answers
The main idea we want the students to take away from this question: ask the kids to think about in their own lives where/when they may have been exposed to smokers and smoking
The main idea we want the students to take away from this question:
The main idea we want the students to take away from this question: get them to draw a picture as well! ask the students if this is similar to the picture the other group drew, why do you think they are the same? do you think seeing people smoke in movies really influences kids now?
Talk about the glamour that the cigarettes used to have in the past, the holders, how its rich famous people, then even today see how these young beautiful people from the great gatsby are smoking
Look classy, rich, higher class
The main idea we want the students to take away from this question:
Many of our favourite disney classics have smoking in at least one scene! Some show smoking and tobacco products in many scenes using many different characters?
Did you notice the smoking in these movies before we should you this clip?
How its targeting youth & younger individuals, many kids may find these scenes funny or appealing even if they aren’t meant to (they way the characters act, how smoking is used/incorporated), how even at a young age we can be influenced!
has anyone seen this show ? how is the reaction of the friends different? Is Chandler being cool? What do his friends think about him smoking?
Preventable cause of death= something that you have control over, “ youre paying a company to kill you “
Can warn students that pictures on the next slide may be a little graphic.
