General Resources

The following presentation was given by Murray Gibson, Executive Director of MANTRA to Teacher Champions in September.

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New Brunswick Anti-Tobacco Coalition

http://nbatc.ca/en/

Students Working Against Tobacco (S.W.A.T.)

http://web.wnlsd.ca/student_health/Students%20Working%20Against%20Tobacco/Students%20Working%20Against%20Tobacco.htm

Minister of Health and Long-term Care

http://www.mhp.gov.on.ca/en/youth/stupid/index.asp

Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

global.tobaccofreekids.org

Not to Kids

http://nottokids.ca/?tmpl=splash

Meet Joe Chemo,a camel who wishes he’d never smoked cigarettes.

http://www.joechemo.org/

What’s in a butt? (Via thetruth.com)

http://www.thetruth.com/facts/pages/whats-in-a-butt/

http://www.thetruth.com/

The Facts of Smokeless (Spit) Tobacco via The Saskatchewan Ministry of Health

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SMOKING AND QUITTING: CLEAN AIR FOR ALL

Supported by a Health Canada grant, Smoking and Quitting is written for children in Grades 1–5 (approximately aged five to 10 years old) and meant as an educational resource. More importantly, using the book with children is a way to open dialogue about smoking: it’s intended to address common concerns as well as to give children some strategies for protecting themselves from second-hand smoke.

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Cutting Through the Smoke – A Parent’s Guide to Talking to Your Kids About Tobacco

Parents everywhere want to see their children grow up happy and healthy. And one of the best ways to ensure your children’s health is to make sure they never start smoking. Tobacco eventually kills half of the people who get hooked on it. This year, tobacco will kill about 2,000 Manitobans. The vast majority of smokers and other tobacco users start in their teens. The good news is that the kids who make it to adulthood without using tobacco will probably stay tobacco-free for life.

As a parent, you can make the difference.

You have a tremendous influence on the way your child sees the world. According to one study, children whose parents talked with them about tobacco were a lot less likely to ever smoke. The study showed that this is also true for children of parents who smoke. In fact, when parents who smoke talked to their children, the child’s chances of staying tobacco-free doubled.

This guide will help you have that conversation with your child – and help you both make the most of your talk.

An anti-tobacco ad challenge for manitoba students

The 10 semi-finalists in the Create & Rate Challenge have been chosen and now it’s your turn to vote for your favourite anti-tobacco ad. The middle school and high school that produced the ad with the most votes will each be awarded an Apple iPad. The runners up will be awarded Sony Handycam Camcorders.

Click here to see the videos and results

Tobacco Education for Manitoba Students

Manitoba’s Back Off Tobacco resource package for teachers. It was distributed on CD-ROM to Manitoba schools in June 2010. There are no updates yet to the original CD-ROM’s contents. The following lessons and information pages are matched to selected learning outcomes contained in the Kindergarten to Grade 12 Physical Education/Health Education Manitoba Curriculum Framework of Outcomes for Active Healthy Lifestyles. In addition, some lessons include curricular connections with math, science and English language arts.

This package has been developed through the efforts of three organizations: Manitoba Healthy Living, Seniors and Consumer Affairs; the Addictions Foundation of Manitoba and Manitoba Education.

Click here for the PDF links