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Activity 1: Locating & Understanding Important Facts and Details From Unit 1
After reading Unit 1, answer the questions below in complete sentences. To locate the answer, you should look at the words in the questions and then go back through the unit and look for the same words.
- What are the different ways tobacco is used?
- How many chemicals are found in cigarettes?
- Who built the first factory to make cigarettes?
- Who invented the cigarette making machine?
- What chemical makes cigarettes an addictive drug?
- What does nicotine do to the body?
- Why does the Food & Drug Administration say that tobacco companies are controlling the amount of nicotine they put into cigarettes?
- Who were the first people in North America to use tobacco?
- How and why did Native Americans use tobacco?
- What was the name of the first pack of cigarettes?
- What are the names of six U.S. cigarette companies?
- What is the name of the first cigarette company in the U.S.?
- When did the number of women smoking in the U.S. begin to increase?
- What and when were the "tar wars"?
- What did the Surgeon General of the U.S. report in 1964?
- What did the Comprehensive Smoking Education Act say?
- What do two warning labels on cigarette packs say?
- What are three restrictions on cigarette smoking in the U.S. today?
- As it becomes harder for tobacco companies to sell cigarettes in the U.S., where are they going?
- What is capitalism?
- What is a profit?
- What is a trade surplus?
- How have tobacco companies helped the U.S. government?
- How have tobacco companies been able to keep making so much money with cigarette sales in the U.S. going down?
- What non-tobacco products does Philip Morris sell?
- What non-tobacco products does R.J. Reynolds sell?
- What happened to Greg Louganis?
- Why did Greg Louganis turn down the honorary position from the American Cancer Society?
- What is the tobacco price support system?
- Which tobacco company has the largest share of the U.S. cigarette market?
Activity 2: Putting Dates On a Time Line, "Smoking Through the Years"
The purpose of this exercise is for you to find important dates from the unit and to read a time line/line graph. Write the missing events on the time line. Reread the section on "History of Tobacco" to find the dates. Or if your teacher has written the events on small cards, place each card at the correct year on the time line.
View time line
Activity 3: Making a Family Tree to Trace Smoking Histories
The purpose of this activity is to show you how to make a family tree and to find out the smoking histories of family members who are alive or dead. Interview any family members who smoke now, smoked at some time in the past, or know about the smoking habits of other family members.
Use the family tree below as an example. You should put the following information on your own family tree:
- the dates family members smoked (beginning and ending)
- what smoking related illnesses family member(s) have (had)
- what smoking related diseases any family member(s) died of
View Family Tree
Activity 4: Finding out About the Economic Effects of Tobacco at the Local Level
As more people stop smoking, convenience stores like 7-11 and Store 24 will lose business at first. To make up the money that comes from tobacco sales, they will have to sell other things. Read the article below, and in complete sentences answer the comprehension questions that follow.
The Costs of Cutting Back
Comprehension Questions:
- According to Dimanno and Lane, what one product brings in a lot of money for convenience stores?
- As of April 1994, how much money goes to the Massachusetts government from each pack of cigarettes sold?
- Before the excise tax increase on cigarettes, about how much money did the state government receive from each cigarette pack sold?
- In what year did the excise tax on cigarettes double?
- What products does Philip Morris sell in addition to tobacco?
- What do convenience store chain stores plan to do to make up for the money they are losing from lower cigarette sales?
- What type of store may go out of business as tobacco sales drop?
Visit one or two convenience stores in your community. Speak to a manager to find out what percentage of sales comes from the sale of cigarettes. Ask what products the store is thinking of selling or is currently selling to take the place of cigarettes. Write up a report and share your findings with your class.
Activity 5: Writing a Business Letter
Write a letter to your U.S. Senator or Representative asking him/her to introduce a bill not allowing tobacco companies to make cigarettes based on the Food & Drug Administration's labelling of cigarettes as a "dangerous drug."
You should suggest ideas for the cigarette companies of what they could make and sell to take the place of cigarettes. Quit smoking aids ( like special gums and candies) could become profitable for the tobacco companies.
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