Smoking – The ‘cost’ of Smoking

PSHE – Tobacco Education

Smoking – The ‘cost’ of Smoking

Yr 8 Lesson 2


Lesson Objectives:

• To consider the ‘true’ cost of smoking.• To develop confidence and the skills of

negotiation and assertion.


Intended Learning Outcomes: Pupils will have:

• Worked individually or in pairs to consider their knowledge and attitudes towards smoking.

• Used the skills of financial capability to assess the cost of smoking; personally and to the wider community.

• Taken part in drama based scenarios to develop communication, negotiation and assertion skills.


Success Criteria:

• Understand that the ‘true’ cost of smoking is far greater than simply financial.

• Be more confident utilising negotiation and assertion skills


ActivityComplete the ‘Before’ column of the Before and After sheet.

I think …

I know …

I would like …

Before After


Consider

What is the cost of a packet of 20 cigarettes?


If a person smoked 10 cigarettes a day how much would they spend on cigarettes over:

• a week• a month• 6 months• a year


• How much would this person spend over the course of:

• 5 years• 10 years• 20 years

What else could they have done with their money?


• The cost to the NHS of treating illness and disease associated with smoking is estimated to be £5.2 billion a year (2005/6).

• How does this make you feel?• What are your thoughts about this?• What are your reasons?


ScenariosConsider

• What are the issues for you?• What are the issues for your friend?• How are you feeling?• How is your friend feeling?• What are your options? How would you like the

situation to end?• How can you make it end this way?• What will you do if the situation does not end as you

would like it to?• How do you feel after the situation has ended as you

wanted it to?• How do you feel after the situation has not ended as

you wanted it to?


1. You and one of your best friends fall out. The next day you see you them chatting and laughing with someone they don’t usually spend time with. Your friend is smoking and asks you to come over. You are offered a cigarette; you would like to make up with your friend but don’t want to smoke …


2. You are out with a group of friends; it is the middle of the day on a Saturday. You decide to go for something to eat. As you sit down outside one of the group brings out a packet of cigarettes and lights up. They then pass the packet around the group. It comes to your turn …


3. There is a new pupil at your school and you are asked to mentor them to help them settle in to their new routines. You both end up getting on well and they invite you to their house after school. When their parents go out they get out a cigarette and light it, they offer one to you and you refuse. Your friend asks you again and says that everyone at their old school smoked …


4. A member of your family is Smoking and they offer you a cigarette. They tell you that they were about your age when they started …


ActivityComplete the ‘After’ column of the Before and After sheet. Have there been any developments?

I think …

I know …

I would like …

Before After


By the end of this lesson, I will:-

Lesson 2

Understand that the ‘true’ cost of smoking is far greater than simply financial.Be more confident utilising negotiation and assertion skills.

Smoking – The ‘cost’ of Smoking

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