Becoming
Smokefree
Lesson 1
Activity 1
I can understand the facts
around smoking.
I can understand what is meant
by secondhand and thirdhand
smoke.
I can understand how
secondhand and thirdhand
smoke affects others.
Steps for Success.
• We need to understand the different facts around smoking, so
we do not have any misconceptions.
• We need to know that secondhand smoke means being
affected by someone else’s smoke.
• We need to understand that secondhand smoke affects
everyone who breathes it in.
• We need to understand that thirdhand smoke can remain on
surfaces, fabric, clothing and car interiors.
Learning
Objectives.
• If you have any questions or
concerns please write them on
a piece of paper and put in our
concerns box.
• Remember we do not discuss
any personal information.
• Never use names, it is always,
“someone I know.”
Concern’s Box
Facts around smoking.
Tobacco smoke contains 4000
chemicals around 50 of which
are known to cause cancer.
Some of these chemicals are:
Tar – a sticky black substance, known to cause both
cancer and lung damage.
Carbon monoxide – a gas found in car exhaust
fumes.
Benzene – found in petrol fumes and causes
leukaemia.
Ethanol – used in anti-freeze.
Ammonia – used to embalm dead bodies.
Hydrogen cyanide – an industrial pollutant.
Arsenic – rat poison.
Facts around
smoking.
When somebody smokes the
carbon monoxide in the smoke
passes from the lungs into the
blood vessels.
It affects arteries increasing the likelihood of
circulatory problems, strokes and heart
attacks.
Nicotine is a powerful , addictive drug that
affects the brain and the heart. In large
quantities it is extremely dangerous.
Every year, over 81,400 people in the UK die
through smoking tobacco (2009 data).
Smoking causes over 3,000 fires every year
in the UK.
• This film is about the effects of
smoking.
• At the end of the film discuss
with your response partners
(or person you are sitting next
to), what you think are the key
messages in the film.
Play
film
now
Hubble
Bubble the
film!
Smoking and young people.
• In the UK, over 450 children start
smoking every day.
• Smoking has been on the increase
amongst 11 to 15 year olds.
• In Nottinghamshire , over 30,000
children up to the age of 15 years
live in a home that is not smokefree
Secondhand smokes involves involuntarily
breathing in other people’s smoke, either from the
burning tip of a cigarette or from smoke that has
been inhaled and then exhaled by the smoker.
Thirdhand smoke is the toxic particles that build
up and can remain on surfaces, fabric, clothing
and car interiors long after tobacco has been
smoked.
• On your sheet draw or write in the
bubbles how you think Millie has
been affected by secondhand and
thirdhand smoke.
• Remember passive smoking is
secondhand and thirdhand smoke.
• Answer the questions on the sheet.
Remember to give your evidence
from the film.
• Think carefully about the last
question. What else could Millie do
to make the situation better for her?
How has
secondhand and
thirdhand smoke
affected Millie?
We have learned
lots of facts
around the
dangers of
smoking.
Fill in your Learning Board.
Secondhand and
thirdhand smoke is
breathing in other
people’s smoke from
the cigarette, their
breath or on clothes
and furniture..
Secondhand and
thirdhand smoke
affects other
people’s health.
What have we learned?