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How can parents keep kids
from using tobacco?
- Set a good example. Don’t use tobacco.
- Make your home smoke and tobacco-free. If you
do smoke, go outside. Just going to another room
or turning on a fan is not enough to protect your
kids from secondhand smoke.
- Support school health programs. Insist that they
include tobacco-use prevention education.
- Help your kids analyze messages that glamorize
tobacco use—on television, in movies and in
magazines.
- Volunteer to help school staff implement
tobacco-use prevention activities.
- Work with the school board to provide assistance
programs for kids who violate tobacco-use
policies.
How can teachers keep kids
from using tobacco?
- Set a good example. Don’t use tobacco.
- Teach tobacco-use prevention in a variety of
classes.
- Help students learn to analyze the messages that
tobacco companies use on television, in movies
and in magazines.
- Coordinate tobacco prevention efforts with
other staff to give a consistent message to
students.
- Take part in tobacco-use prevention training.
Share your experiences with other teachers.
- Involve families and community organizations in
tobacco-use prevention activities.
- Support the efforts of other staff members to
quit using tobacco.
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