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Smoking – The ‘cost’ of
Smoking
Yr 8 Lesson 2
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Lesson Objectives:
• To consider the ‘true’ cost of smoking.
• To develop confidence and the skills of
negotiation and assertion.
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Intended Learning Outcomes:
Pupils will have:
• Worked individually or in pairs to consider
their knowledge and attitudes towards
smoking.
• Used the skills of financial capability to
assess the cost of smoking; personally and
to the wider community.
• Taken part in drama based scenarios to
develop communication, negotiation and
assertion skills.
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Success Criteria:
• Understand that the ‘true’ cost of smoking
is far greater than simply financial.
• Be more confident utilising negotiation
and assertion skills
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Activity
Complete the ‘Before’ column of the
Before and After sheet.
Before
I think …
I know …
I would like …
After
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Consider
What is the cost of a packet of
20 cigarettes?
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If a person smoked 10 cigarettes a day
how much would they spend on
cigarettes over:
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a week
a month
6 months
a year
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• How much would this person spend over
the course of:
• 5 years
• 10 years
• 20 years
What else could they have done with their
money?
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• The cost to the NHS of treating illness and
disease associated with smoking is
estimated to be £5.2 billion a year
(2005/6).
• How does this make you feel?
• What are your thoughts about this?
• What are your reasons?
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Scenarios
Consider
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What are the issues for you?
What are the issues for your friend?
How are you feeling?
How is your friend feeling?
What are your options? How would you like the situation
to end?
How can you make it end this way?
What will you do if the situation does not end as you
would like it to?
How do you feel after the situation has ended as you
wanted it to?
How do you feel after the situation has not ended as you
wanted it to?
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1. You and one of your best friends fall out.
The next day you see you them chatting
and laughing with someone they don’t
usually spend time with. Your friend is
smoking and asks you to come over.
You are offered a cigarette; you would
like to make up with your friend but
don’t want to smoke …
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2. You are out with a group of friends; it is
the middle of the day on a Saturday. You
decide to go for something to eat. As
you sit down outside one of the group
brings out a packet of cigarettes and
lights up. They then pass the packet
around the group. It comes to your turn …
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3. There is a new pupil at your school and you
are asked to mentor them to help them
settle in to their new routines. You both end
up getting on well and they invite you to
their house after school. When their parents
go out they get out a cigarette and light it,
they offer one to you and you refuse. Your
friend asks you again and says that
everyone at their old school smoked …
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4. A member of your family is Smoking and
they offer you a cigarette. They tell you
that they were about your age when
they started …
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Activity
Complete the ‘After’ column of the Before
and After sheet. Have there been any
developments?
Before
I think …
I know …
I would like …
After
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By the end of this lesson, I will:-
Lesson
2
Understand that the ‘true’ cost
of smoking is far greater than
simply financial.
Be more confident utilising
negotiation and assertion skills.
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