Smoking
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• Starter:
• What is a carcinogenic?
A chemical which can disrupt the DNA of cells
and trigger the formation of a tumour
• Give an example of an ionising radiation and
how it can cause a tumour?
UV radiation / X-ray radiation – it can damage
the DNA and encourage mutations which cause
a tumour
You have 20 seconds to try to
remember as many of these as
possible…
What do they have in common?
Nicotine
• Produced naturally by the
tobacco plant to stop insect
attacks
• Highly addictive
• Nicotine stimulates the
production of adrenaline and
dopamine
Damaged lung
What can you notice about
the damaged lung?
Tar
• Tar is a carcinogenic
• Increases risk of
bronchitis (inflammation
and infection of the
bronchi)
• Break down of the
alveoli = chronic
obstructive pulmonary
disease
How and why have attitudes to smoking
changed?
Anti-smoking
campaign
Create a campaign
A poster on why
people should stop
smoking
Groups of 2 / 3
Keywords to include: Tar,
carcinogens, risk factors,
tobacco, nicotine, bronchitis,
chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease, heart
disease
What are the dangers of
smoking?
– Evidence from the info
sheets?
What are you benefits of
stopping smoking?
Be persuasive!
– What type of language
should you use?
Art Gallery
• Go round the class, looking at everyone’s
posters. Use your post it for one:
• One ‘What Went Well’ post-it
• One ‘Even Better If’ post-it
2 new facts have you learnt today
about smoking
Carbon Monoxide
-Clear, odourless, tasteless
gas.
-Poisonous gas that stops
your body getting the oxygen
it needs.
-Rubs away at the lining of
the artery walls and makes
them sticky.
-Cholesterol then sticks to the
walls and blocks the arteries
-This causes heart attacks and
strokes.
Nicotine
-Extremely addictive
chemical.
-Absorbed into the body
very quickly and gets to
the brain in 7 seconds.
Tar
-Responsible for
staining smokers fingers
and teeth a yellowbrown.
-Used to surface roads.
-Causes cancer as well
as damaging the lungs.
Anti-smoking
campaign
Create a campaign
A poster + speech on
why people should
stop smoking to
present to the class
Groups of 3 or 4
Who are your audience?
– Find out how many people’s
parents or siblings smoke
– Or how many people smoke
in the UK
What are the dangers of
smoking?
– Evidence from the
demonstration?
What are you benefits of
stopping smoking?
– Information sheets around
the room
Be persuasive!
Present to the class
– What type of language
should you use?
Smoking chamber