Tobacco and Smoking Cessation
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Models & interactive displays
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The jar of tar
Audience: All ages A jar containing a year’s worth of tar based on an individual smoking 20 cigarettes a day |
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Smokey Joe’s Lost Time Quiz (and display)
Audience: All ages Smokey Joe is a pack a day smoker. This eye-catching, interactive display consists of a set of 5 jars filled with some of the damaging, time consuming and cash devouring side-effects of Smokey Joe’s smoking |
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Smoked lung model
Audience: Young people and adults Realistic 3D lung model lets viewers see what cigarette smoking does to their lungs |
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Heart disease model set
Audience: Young people and adults Three exceptionally detailed heart models offer a jolting look at the damage that is frequently the result of unhealthy living. One model features a partially healed infarction another is plagued by congestive heart failure and a normal model shows viewers what a heart is really supposed to look like. Each model is approx. 10 cm x 6 cm x 6 cm. |
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Giant cigarette box
Audience: Young people and Adults This realistic cigarette box model opens to reveal artwork representing nine cigarettes, which each name a major disease caused by smoking, as well as a removable giant cigarette. 20" x 38" x 7". |
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Giant cigarette action display
Audience: Young people and adults An interactive tool that reveals the benefits of quitting smoking, which increase the longer you stay smoke-free. User simply turns the outer sleeve to see the benefits that begin from within minutes of the last cigarette and continue for years. 9 cm x 61 cm. |
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A Pack of Toxic Tar Display
Audience: Young people and adults This realistic display contains two removable cigarettes filled with gooey 'tar'. The tar in these two cigarettes represents the amount of toxic tar that a smoker receives from smoking one pack of cigarettes. |
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Tobacco Catch Clever Ball
Audience: Young people and adults Inflatable 'beach' ball with questions relating to the dangers of smoking and smokeless tobacco. Answer sheet and play instructions included. Pump included. |
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Lou-wheeze
Audience: Young people and adults Has two flexible latex lung models. One represents a healthy lung, and the other depicts the damage done by emphysema and cancer. The attached pump inflates the healthy lung as normal, but the diseased lung inflates sluggishly and fails to deflate completely between 'breaths'. |
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Inflatable cigarette
Audience: All ages Looks like a standard cigarette on one side but lists facts about the dangers of smoking on the other side. Can be hung as a mobile or used as a demonstration model. 4" x 36" |
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Smoking blocks your blood vessels
Audience: Young people and adults Model that shows how smoking contributes to blocked arteries. Model has fat deposits on the wall of the artery, red blood cells that catch on the fat deposits as the blood flows and a rigid wall to show the hardening. |
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What’s in Cigarette Smoke?
Audience: Young people and adults This interactive kit contains representations of 24 examples of the chemicals in tobacco smoke. Passing the thought provoking items around in a group setting is a great way to stimulate discussion and questions |
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Substance abuse chart set
Each of these nine charts details the harmful effects caused by the abuse of a particular drug. Organ damage appears in realistic detail. Each chart is laminated and measures 24" x 36" |
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The Tarminator
Audience: All ages The Tarminator is perfect for demonstrations in which using an actual cigarette is impractical or not permitted. The user starts by pumping clean water through The Tarminator's filter unit, demonstrating how unpolluted air leaves no deposits on the lungs. For comparison, a special tar mixture is then pumped through the unit, staining The Tarminator's filter a dull brown. This shows how lung tissue absorbs the tiny particles in cigarette smoke. After the demonstration, the stained filter can be passed around for closer examination. Please note: this image shows a newer version of the Tarminator model than the one held by our service. |
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What mummy does baby does
Cigarette butts, pills, and beer bottle caps suspended in plastic. The model graphically illustrates how alcohol, tobacco, and other substances cross the placenta and damage a foetus. |
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Mum's lifeline to baby
Audience: Young people and adults This simple model showing baby, umbilicus and placenta, is designed to explain the effect of mum’s smoking on the levels of oxygen that pass through to baby in the blood (but could also be used in alcohol education). A ‘clip’ is used to represent how blood oxygen levels are restricted by mum’s smoking, denying baby some of the oxygen essential for healthy growth. Comes with explanatory notes and other information. |
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Stop Smoking poster pack
Audience: All ages Borrow our large pack of posters all designed to highlight the dangers of smoking and encourage people to stop. Suitable for a wide range of ages and abilities. |
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Title: Teeth in tobacco juice
Description: Sealed in a plastic jar of simulated tobacco juice containing tobacco flakes this model of damaged and decayed teeth and gums sends a clear message about the effects of smokeless tobacco use. 9 cm x 15 cm. |
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Smokers foul mouth display
Description: This mouth has two tongues: One depicts leukoplakia and cancer while the other portrays "hairy tongue". 18 cm x 14 cm x 18 cm." |
DVDs
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Kick it! Smoking [DVD]
Audience: 10-12 (KS 2-3) Duration: 5 mins. Delivers a powerful anti-smoking message for children. The DVD considers: what is in a cigarette, how smoking can affect your health and performance at sport, the social and financial costs and peer group pressure. The accompanying notes are designed to augment the DVD material and provide teachers with ideas for classwork and extension activities, such as discussion/group work. |
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A smoking epidemic [DVD]
Audience: KS 4-5 Duration: 28 mins This programme critically examines the history of smoking and its promotion by tobacco companies, looking at the way the number of smokers has increased due to clever marketing and the addictive nature of nicotine. The beginnings of research into the harmful effects of smoking are documented as are the battles between the tobacco industry and antismoking lobbies. The programme also reveals how, despite the known health hazards, tobacco is still being actively promoted in the developing world. Watch a clip and download resource pack |
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10 top reasons to stay smoke free
Audience: 9+ Duration: 14 mins Date: 2008 A fast moving film version of the best selling leaflet that briefly presents 10 reasons for not taking up tobacco. Using a colourful mix of facts and figures, body painting, interviews and humour, the action includes tobacco’s impact on health, wealth, complexion, pollution, addiction, fitness and freedom. Oh and saying no to those tobacco industry marketers who are represented as the blood sucking Count Tobacula. Great for young people and any groups as a discussion starter. |
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Quit [on same DVD as 'Life Stuff: The A-Z of Drugs]
Quit is a series of strong, visually alluring and attention-grabbing campaigning films. Short and sharp, Quit has one aim: to discourage and stop young people from smoking. Five films included: 1. A Hole in My Neck: Few people realise that smoking can cause tongue and throat cancer. This film looks at the consequences of smoking and follows an operation to remove a smoker's tongue. 2. Family Habit: Can a teenager AND their mum give up? 3. Greg's Story: Greg is sixteen. When he was 11 he found out that he had cancer. Greg's utter disbelief that ANYONE would choose to risk going through what he has experienced first-hand is a powerful reminder that life is full of hidden dangers, and that some risks just aren't worth taking. 4. Breath of Fresh Air: Every year the tobacco companies need to recruit 450,000 new smokers to replace those lost through illness and death - and these new smokers need to be young. 5. Dog End: An animation about passive smoking. Trying to hide his fags from his parents, a teenage boy subjects the family dog to his illicit smoke. Read more |
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Life Stuff: The A-Z of Drugs [DVD]
Audience: 14-19 Duration: 3 x 25 mins The A-Z of Drugs is the first of two series on this DVD. It aims to disentangle myths from reality, giving facts, information and viewpoints in a language young people understand. It's a fast-moving, stylish, no-nonsense guide through the minefield of drugs, empowering young people to make informed choices for themselves. Programme details: 1. A to E: Covers A to E, starting with alcohol and ending with ecstasy 2. F to O: This programme starts with F for friends, it moves on to look at heroin and injecting, then explores making choices and needing to fit in 3. P to Z: Includes a look at treatment and some of the reasons why people take drugs. Read more |
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Smoking in pregnancy: are you ready to quit?
Audience: Young people and adults Duration: 12 mins Date: 2006 This film highlights the risks of smoking for the mother and the developing foetus. The impact of smoking throughout pregnancy is emphasised by the effects that continue, even after the baby is born. The film includes interviews with three mothers. |
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No Smoking No Butts
Audience: Young people 12+ Duration: 17 mins Date: 2008 A fast moving and funny DVD made by the Monmouthshire Youth Service. Hard hitting visuals and wacky characters make the surreal delivery of this programme stand out from anything you have ever seen on the subject of tobacco and smoking. There are some clever representations of some of the stark messages of health damage and smoking. Featuring Wheezer Geezer, Top Tips and White room. With resource pack. |
Teaching packs, games & activities
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The world of tobacco – turning over a new leaf skills for the primary school child
Audience: 5-11 To increase knowledge and understanding of tobacco related issues, to explore attitudes, feelings and values, and learn practical life skills in relation to cigarettes and tobacco. Contains: 23 lessons; photocopiable classroom materials; workshop activities for use with the whole school community; background papers and information sheets give ideas about smoking to becoming an addicted daily smoker |
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Can you hack it? What you can do in a few minutes to tackle smoking with young people
Audience: Young people For anyone wishing to help young people to stop smoking. Can also be used to help young people not to start. Based on the Stages of Change model, the resource suggests effective actions to take when you only have a few minutes to discuss smoking. 'Can you hack it?' contains charts, posters and handouts. The guidelines give details of the key messages and appropriate action for each stage from forming positive ideas about smoking to becoming an addicted daily smoker |
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Primary School Smoking Education Pack
Audience: 5-11 and teaching staff This manual adopts a sensitive approach to the issues of smoking, encouraging children to express their own views, feelings and concerns, and enabling them to develop the knowledge and skills needed to research their own informed decisions. The manual supports a whole-school approach and introduces a smoking education programme at a significant stage in children’s awareness of smoking. It provides guidance and support for the planning of a smoking education policy that integrates smoking education into the curriculum. It includes: 16 pupil activities for Key Stage 2, 3 staff training workshops, curriculum guidance, guidance on managing smoking-related incidents, policy guidance, guidance on working with parents or carers, teacher fact sheets and a list of agencies and resources. |
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The Great Tobacco Challenge CD-ROM
Audience: 6-13 CD-ROM designed to bring tobacco education to life for children aged 6-13. Includes 2 interactive games plus a series of lesson plans, ASH factsheets, a model school tobacco control policy and guide to running stop smoking groups (2008). |
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Smoke screen: strategies for working with 11-18 year olds in schools, colleges, youth projects and health settings
Audience: 11-18 This resource includes guidance for running smoking education programmes, running stop smoking groups and leaning activities to use with young people. Factsheets are included. |
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The Healthy Mission CD-ROM
Audience: 5-11 This resource provides teachers with the knowledge and tools to deliver accurate, consistent and credible, healthy lifestyle messages to young people aged between six and eleven years (Key stages 1 & 2). Topics covered include healthy diet, exercise, risk taking and the dangers of alcohol and smoking. The resource contains a Teacher Pack with guidance on using the CD-ROM and sign posting information. |
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You are smoke free [board/floor game]
Audience: 10+ Snakes and ladders type game for players aged 10+. Uses question and answer cards to pass on health education messages in relation to smoking and tobacco. Available as a tabletop version or as a large floor version with a giant dice and counters. |
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ZONES: Board game
Audience: 11-15 years, although can be played by 16+. Ideally suited for 3 groups of 4-6 people. Zones is aimed at encouraging young people to think and talk about issues including: smoking, alcohol, drugs, sex and relationships. Includes: Counters and dice, 4 sets of cards and instructions |