Here are some questions created by participants in the STAT program about situations your students might end up in. You can use these questions as the starting point for a discussion in your classroom about tobacco use (smoking and dipping). We hope they will get your students thinking about how to respond to the temptations of tobacco use!


You are at a school dance and your date decides to join his/her friends outside for a smoke. S/he asks you to come along for a few minutes so they can finish smoking a cigarette.
What should you do?

You are at a baseball game and your friend passes you a can of smokeless tobacco. He tells you its okay to use "snuff" because its not as bad for you as cigarettes.
What should you say to him?

You walk into a party and one of your closest friends stops you at the door. She tells you that you have to take a cigarette before you can walk into the party because everyone else is smoking. She hands you a cigarette.
What should you do?

You and your friends are hanging out behind the school one day when another friend walks up to your best friend and offers him/her some snuff. You know that they have never used snuff before, but he/she reaches for the can anyway.
What would you do? What if your friend tells you that it's okay because his/her dad uses snuff too?

Your friend's mom is driving you to school and she is smoking with her car windows shut.
Would you say anything to her? What would you say?