Activities:

Before viewing
Tell the students they are going to see one of a series of short films focusing on issues around smoking and tobacco control.

After viewing
Key questions:

a) What key message/s was the film trying to get across?
b) What techniques were employed to do this?
c) How successful did individuals feel this was?
d) What impact did the film make on them?
e) Was there anything they didn’t know or would challenge?

Activity
While tobacco companies are marketing and selling cigarettes, health interests are trying to control the damage to health from tobacco smoke. Brainstorm all the different ways people and organisations try to do this. Collect the headings for all the different elements of smoking control and display them on the board. Ask students for specific examples for each one. Which ones are in place in the UK, which are in transition and which are waiting to be introduced? What are the students' thoughts about these attempts to protect people from tobacco smoke? Have any of the class read of issues to do with this in the press or visited other countries with different ideas about tobacco control?