Year 6 Pupils, CEIP Santa Susanna

Anti-Smoking Poster Campaign for

Calella Hospital

Poster Campaign

• Calella Hospital would like your help with their poster campaign against smoking.

• You need to design a poster that warns of the dangers of smoking.

• It can be written in Catalan or English or both languages.

• Your poster will need a target audience (e.g. teenagers, parents, hospital workers).

• It will also need a message.

Target:

Pregnant women.

Message:

•Don’t smoke while

pregnant.

•The smoke will affect

your baby.

Effect on Individuals

• Smoking affects your health.

• For example, nearly 90% of deaths from lung cancer are related to smoking.

• (Only about 35% of people smoke!)

• Cigarettes contain more than 4.000 different chemicals.

• About 250 of these are toxic.

• We know that at least 50 cause cancer.

Passive Smoking

• Smoking doesn’t JUST affect the health of smokers.

• The poisons in cigarette smoke also affect other people.

• They breathe in the smoky air around them.

• In particular, this is a problem for children and people who work in places where smoking is permitted.

• Click here for video.

One year more, or

one year less?

Cigarette smoke

causes damage to the

people around you.

Why don’t you give up

smoking?

Effect on the Environment

• Smoking causes litter – cigarette butts and ash accumulate on the street.

• It looks ugly and can spread disease.

• It can harm wildlife.

• Cigarette smoke contributes to air pollution.

• Smoking is one of the causes of forest fires.

• It costs a lot of money to clean the streets of litter and combat forest fires.

Effect on Society

• Smokers have more health problems than non-smokers.

• Health care for smokers costs the Government a lot of money.

• Smoking causes poverty because people who smoke have less money to spend on their families.

Remember, Smokers are Addicts!

• Smoking is highly addictive.

• Very often, smokers don’t want to smoke.

• They know all the dangers.

• They may have tried to stop many times.

• Try to be polite and positive.

• For example, sometimes people continue to smoke because they think it’s too late to stop!

Poster by Dutch artist

Maurits Cornelius

Escher (1898-1972)

Vincent van Gogh,

“Skull with Burning

Cigarette”, 1886 (oil

on canvas).