• Information about the importance of healthy decisions
   
• Information on peer pressure and tobacco advertising
   
• A variety of teaching methods are used:
  • Videos
  • Puppets
  • Posters
  • Games
  • Music
  • Ingredients box
  • Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Sinister Smoke Ring

The lesson plans and activities are based on the American Lung Association’s “Smoke-free, That’s Me” program begun more than a decade ago, and used in DuPage County Schools with thousands of students.

How will this unit plan benefit the schools, teachers and students of DuPage County?

• Lesson plans have been written by experts in tobacco prevention and education
   
• Time and field tested lesson plans
   
• Lesson/unit plan available to download and print from website
   
• Unit kits are free and readily available to DuPage County teachers by contacting the Audio Visual Institute of DuPage (AVID) – Even for non-members!!
   
• E-mail link available on website for ease of communication with health department