Activity: Big Tobacco & Our Communities
Instructions
Educators should download the lesson plan and activity materials which contains speakers' notes.
Purpose
1. To understand how the tobacco industry uses manipulative advertising, focusing on menthol, to target specific communities like the African American community.
2. To discuss which other communities are at risk and are already being targeted by tobacco companies.
Downloads
This type of activity pushes students to think outside the box and respond creatively.
Activity Preview
Preview of Advertisement (slide 2) from Big Tobacco and Our Communities PowerPoint
Branching Out
Whether you have more teaching time or want to dive into similar topics to form a lesson, here are just a few options of other Toolkit curriculum items that you can use with this activity.
Tobacco Curriculum
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