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This project is about finding out what different people know and feel about smoking. You can ask your friends, other young people of your age, your parents and people of their age, your grandparents and people of their age, some of your teachers etc.

For instance you can ask them:

• What is a cigarette made of?
• What happens to the body when people smoke?
• Why is it difficult for some people to give up smoking?
• Why some people never smoke?
• Why some people who stop smoking never smoke again and others start again?

People think all sorts of things about smoking: some of them are true but others are not really right. You could show people some of the following statements and take note of their answers.

• Once you start smoking you cannot stop.
• I can just smoke now and then. I will never get hooked on it.
• Smoking helps people lose weight.
• If you stop smoking you will put on weight.
• Smoking makes people look cool.
• People who smoke are more sexually appealing.
• Some people could not relax without smoking.
• More boys than girls smoke cigarettes.
• It is more acceptable for boys to smoke than girls.
• Most adults smoke.
• Smoking around other people doesn't really affect them.
• Most young people smoke cigarettes.
• Smoking is not that bad. There are lots of other dangerous things.
• Smoking doesn't really cost a lot of money.

Record the answers people give you in note form. Report what different people have said for each question. Next look to see how similar or different the views are and whether people of different ages or backgrounds have different views. If there are different views why do you think this is so? How do the views given compare with your own views about smoking?

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