Shared learning team project.

1. What's your poison? A campaign to reduce smoking in New Zealand teenagers

2. Can we interest you in a glass of nail polish remover, a taste of insecticide, a smidgen of gasoline, a spoon of embalming fluid or perhaps a cup of antifreeze and brake fluid? "NO THANK-YOU!" you say? Perhaps a cigarette then?

3. If you said “yes” to that cigarette, you also said yes to the acetone, the antifreeze and numerous other highly toxic poisons that make up the ingredients of cigarettes!! Of the hundreds of dangerous chemicals and toxins that are used to make cigarettes the most common and some of the most dangerous include:

8. MEDIA APPROACH FOR ‘’ QUIT SMOKING’’

9. if you smoke, you have a very good chanCe of being exposed to the types of harm graphically portrayed by these images

10. ‘ quit’ message 1 out of every 2 smokers will die from a smoking related disease. Those smokers who die from a smoking related illness lose on average 15 years of life compared to non-smokers. Smoking kills around 13 New Zealanders every day.

11. Smoking causes more than 80 percent of lung cancer cases and is linked to many other cancers. It is also a major cause of heart attacks, heart disease, stroke, and respiratory diseases such as emphysema and chronic bronchitis. Smoking can also cause blindness, infertility and impotence . Smoking is known to cause harm to nearly every organ and system of your body. It even affects organs that have no direct contact with the smoke itself.

12. Quitting at any age has short and long term health benefits. The people you live with, especially your children, will also be healthier if you quit smoking. Quitting smoking will reduce your chance of developing heart disease. After one year of not smoking your risk of heart disease is halved. Fifteen years after stopping smoking your risk of heart disease is the same as a non-sm oker.

13. HEALTH WARNINGS ON SMOKING *Smoking causes blindness, *Smoking causes gangrene, *Smoking causes mouth cancer, *You are not the only one smoking this cigarette, Over 80% of lung cancers are caused by smoking, *Tobacco smoke is poisonous, *Smoking causes heart attacks, *Smoking can make you impotent, *Smoking is highly addictive, *Smoking causes foul and offensive breath *Smoking causes serious lung diseases, *Smoking more than doubles your risk of stroke, *Smoking blocks your arteries.

38. SOME PEOPLE WHO SMOKE A PACK A DAY! SPEND OVER $3000 A YEAR! YOU CAN BUY TWO CARS FOR THAT

39. AROUND HALF OF ALL SMOKERS AGED 20 WILL DIE EARLY AS A RESULT OF SMOKING .

40. Increasing numbers of young people think that smoking is not as cool as it is made out to be. If you are offered a cigarette by anyone, just say no.

41. (ASH, 2004)

43. SAVE MONEY TO BUY NEW THINGS ON AVERAGE IF YOU SMOKE A PACK A DAY THATS AN EXTRA $70 A WEEK YOU COULD SPEND ON OTHER THINGS! FEEL BETTER QUITTING IMPROVES YOUR HEALTH AND YOU WILL LIVE LONGER! CONFIDENCE BOOST ITS SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF

45. CHECK OUT SOME OF THESE LINKS FOR MORE INFO ON QUITTING SMOKING OR ABOUT HOW SMOKING IS SO HARMFUL. http://www.notourfuture.co.nz/ http://www.auahikore.org.nz/ http://www.lungfish.co.nz/home http://www.attitude.org.nz/ http://www.notourfuture.co.nz/

47. You may think you look like this: Gorgeous MASCULINE

48. But if you smoke you will most likely be perceived by others as this:

50. DON’T BE A MONKEY!