Page Segments: page-6
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
Based on your feelings, the next time you are in a situation similar to this one, you are likely to (choose one):
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
Based on your feelings, the next time you are in a situation similar to this one, you are likely to (choose one):
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
After accepting a beer when someone hands it to you, you feel (choose one):
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
When you talk to the people at the party who aren't drinking, you feel (choose one):
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
You call or text your parents to ask for a ride, and they say they'll come right away. You feel (choose one):
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
ACTIVITY 4: Peer Pressure and Influence—Do Your Friends Affect Your Decisions?
CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES
What would you do?
Here are some possibilities. Choose one and see where it takes you.
You're at a party at an older student's home when several students start drinking. You don't want to drink and would like to go home, but you live too far away to walk and may have to wait for a ride.
You (choose one):
ACTIVITY 3: Tobacco & Nicotine Use - The Health Consequences
ACTIVITY 3: Tobacco & Nicotine Use - The Health Consequences
WHAT ELSE IS THERE
What is secondhand smoke?
Secondhand smoke is made up of smoke that comes off the burning cigarette and the smoke that the smoker exhales.20 According to the Surgeon General, "No amount of secondhand smoke is safe…Scientists believe even a little tobacco smoke can be dangerous."20
Visit https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/secondhand-smoke/about.html for additional information about diseases and health consequences related to tobacco use.
ACTIVITY 2: Tobacco & Nicotine Use–The Health Consequences
ACTIVITY 2: Tobacco & Nicotine Use–The Health Consequences
Young people who smoke cigarettes are likely to be less physically fit and have more respiratory (breathing) problems than people their age who don't smoke.19 Coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and phlegm production are symptoms that young people who use tobacco report they are more likely to experience than non-smoking peers.19
And then there's the issue of addiction, making it difficult to stop doing something.
TRUE OR FALSE?
The younger a person is when he or she starts smoking cigarettes, the more likely he or she is to become addicted to nicotine.19
Most young people who smoke regularly are addicted to nicotine, making it hard for them to quit.19
This statement is TRUE
ACTIVITY 2: Tobacco & Nicotine Use–The Health Consequences
ACTIVITY 2: Tobacco & Nicotine Use–The Health Consequences
Young people who smoke cigarettes are likely to be less physically fit and have more respiratory (breathing) problems than people their age who don't smoke.19 Coughing, wheezing, shortness of breath, and phlegm production are symptoms that young people who use tobacco report they are more likely to experience than non-smoking peers.19
And then there's the issue of addiction, making it difficult to stop doing something.
TRUE OR FALSE?
The younger a person is when he or she starts smoking cigarettes, the more likely he or she is to become addicted to nicotine.19
Most young people who smoke regularly are addicted to nicotine, making it hard for them to quit.19
This statement is TRUE