Healthy Habits, Healthy Planet

 A three lesson curriculum on the impacts of tobacco products on the environment

Healthy Habits, Healthy Planet was created through a collaboration between Stanford University's REACH Lab and San Diego State University's Center for Tobacco and the Environment.

Introduction to the Lesson and General Information

Our 3-lesson environmental curriculum is suitable for middle or high school classrooms.

Each lesson provides slides, talking points, activities, and worksheets in addition to other resources and materials aimed at addressing key factors associated with youth e-cigarette use, including changing adolescents’ attitudes towards and misperceptions about e-cigarettes and the harms to the environment.

These 3 in-class sessions are reinforced outside of the classroom with follow-up discussion guides that provide open-ended questions and activities for youth to discuss various e-cigarette and cannabis related topics with a trusted adult and/or peer in order to open dialogue between youth and adults. The curriculum is meant to reach all youth, including those at highest risk of tobacco use, racial/ethnic minorities, students in continuation and alternative schools.

Lesson Navigation

Lesson 1
Lesson 2
Lesson 3

The goals of this curriculum are for adolescents to:

Increase student’s knowledge about cigarettes and e-cigarettes and the environmental harms they can cause.

  • Emphasize how use of tobacco products affects others in an indoor environment, particularly the harms of secondhand and thirdhand smoke and aerosol 

  • Have students gain awareness of the environmental harms and subsequent resource strains at each stage of the lifespan of tobacco, from growth to disposal.

  • Empower students to think critically about potential solutions and encourage them to make a positive difference in their communities