Tobacco Smoking Practices in School-Aged Children Jeremy Cadeau Lindsey Pecoskie

Why This Topic is Important There is data indicating that elementary school aged children are experimenting with tobacco. There is a positive relationship between tobacco use and age, as age increases, they also become more experimental with tobacco.

Grade 7 Health Expectations Met through this exercise Healthy Living Overall Expectations apply living skills to deal with peer pressure related to substance use and abuse. Specific Expectations demonstrate strategies (e.g., saying no, walking away) that can be used to counter pressures to smoke, drink, and take drugs, and identify healthy alternatives to drug use.

Grade 7 Math Expectations Met through this exercise Data Management & Probability Overall Expectations collect and organize categorical, discrete, or continuous primary data and secondary data and display the data using charts and graphs, including relative frequency tables and circle graphs; Specific Expectations collect and organize categorical, discrete, or continuous primary data and secondary data (e.g., electronic data from websites such as E-Stat or Census At Schools) and display the data in charts, tables, and graphs (including relative frequency tables and circle graphs) that have appropriate titles, labels (e.g., appropriate units marked on the axes), and scales (e.g., with appropriate increments) that suit the range and distribution of the data, using a variety of tools (e.g., graph paper, spreadsheets, dynamic statistical software);

Percentage of School Aged Children Who Have Smoked This is non-Statistics Canada information (7509). 2002

How often do you smoke tobacco at present? This is non-Statistics Canada information (7509). 2002

Questions to ask students 1.In the ‘percentage of school aged children who have smoked’ graph, what trend do you see and how can you explain this trend? 2.In the graph titled ‘how often do you smoke tobacco at present?’ you can see that as age increases so does the chances of smoking. What are ways that you can help prevent yourselves from joining this statistic? 3.Describe an inverse relationship found in the ‘how often do you smoke tobacco at present?’ graph.