Smoking

http://www.lung.ca/children/grades4_6/tobacco/index.html Smoking Webquest

Your best friend Sydney has been acting strange the past few weeks. Sydney always goes off alone behind the school at recess and doesn't sit beside you in class anymore. You feel like she's hiding something from you. You suspect she's been smoking or is about to start smoking. You both know how bad smoking is for you for. Your parents and teachers have told you all about it. You both have seen the commercials on TV that show how bad it is for you. Why is Sydney doing it then? Why is she smoking? Maybe she doesn't think its that bad. Maybe she's seen celebrities smoking or older kids at school. Maybe she thinks it's cool. Whatever the reason may be that convinced Sydney to start smoking, you are not going to sit back and do nothing about it. You are not going to watch your best friend become a smoker because you know that **friends don't let friends smoke!**

You know that Sydney could care less about reading how bad smoking is for her, so you have to come up with a creative way to get her attention. Your task is to make a creative poster that you can put up in the hallway at school that explains:

You will be divided into a group of three to complete this task. Each of you will be responsible for finding specific information on the Internet depending on your role. The roles are:
 * the risks involved in smoking (statistics)
 * the diseases you can get from smoking
 * how you can quit smoking or get help to qui

> A statistician collects information about a topic and records it in numbers and percentages. This information is call statistics or stats. Your job would be to research the stats on smoking. For example, how many people die from smoking in Canada each year? > > The doctor will be responsible for researching the diseases and health problems that are caused by smoking. For example, lung cancer. > The counselor's job is to understand why kids your age smoke. They will be responsible for knowing how to help someone quit smoking or encouraging them not to start
 * The Statistician
 * The Doctor
 * The Counselor

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