1. Session 4: Your Life. Your Choice.
CATCH My Breath
Session 4: Your Life. Your Choice.
Suggested length: 35 minutes

2. Who are advertisers trying to appeal to with these candy flavors?
E-cigarette Flavors
Hawaiian Punch
Gummy bears
S’mores
Skittles
Cotton candy
Sweet Tarts
Fruit Loops
Banana Split
Cool Cucumber
Introduction (5 min.)
A. Ask students: Why do you think the E-cigarette and tobacco industry make E-cigarettes with candy flavors like gummy bears, cotton candy and s’mores? Who are they trying to appeal to?
Who are advertisers trying to appeal to with these candy flavors?

3. E-cigarette Flavors
Flavoring chemicals are listed as GRAS (generally recognized as safe) but ONLY for ingestion (eating)
Your lungs do not have a detoxifying system. Your liver does this job for the digestive system.
Introduction (5 min.)
Review the safety concerns listed below for the 8,000+ flavor chemicals that can be added to E-cigarettes.
The flavor chemicals are listed as GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe), BUT this is only for ingestion (eating).
FEMA (Flavor Extract Manufacturers Association), the organization in charge of the GRAS list, specifically say these flavors should not be inhaled
Why? While the digestive system has the liver to detoxify the chemicals you eat and drink, there is no such system in your lungs.
FEMA, the organization in charge of the GRAS list, specifically says these flavors should not be inhaled.

4. Guess: How many poison control center calls related to E-cigarettes were there from 2014-2016?
Ask students to guess how many poison control center calls there were from for E-cigarettes.

5. The E-cigarette FactS
Most sweet, candy, and fruit-flavored E- cigarettes contain nicotine.
From , there was an average of about 238 E-cigarette related calls to U.S. poison control centers per month.
Nicotine liquid (AKA E-juice) is very harmful and possibly fatal to a developing fetus, babies, and toddlers.
Share the facts:
From , the average number of U.S. poison control center calls for E-cigarettes was 238 per month.
Most sweet, candy, and fruit-flavored E-cigarettes contain nicotine.
Nicotine liquid (AKA, E-juice) is very harmful and possibly fatal for a developing fetus, babies and toddlers.

6. You are a powerful role model to young children.
How would you feel about younger siblings or cousins getting a hold of or smoking an E-cigarette?
What would happen if they drank the E-juice?
Ask students: How would you feel about your younger cousins or siblings getting hold of or smoking an E-cigarette. What would happen if they drank the E-juice?

7. Check-in
What information about E-cigarettes stood out to you most over the course of this program?
Class poll: With all this new information, do you feel more empowered to make your own choice about E-cigarette use?
Direct Instruction (5 min.)
Ask students which information about E-cigarettes stood out to them most over the course of the four 4 sessions. Compile a class list.
Class poll: With all this new information, do you feel more empowered to make your own choice about E-cigarette use?

8. The Real Cost: Hacked (click to play video)
Watch The Real Cost: Hacked.
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9. Remember: Smart Exit Strategy Examples
Simply say "No thanks, I'm good."
Stand tall with non-smoking friends
Suggest something else to do
Give Your reason for not wanting to use an E-cigarette
Add some humor
Remind students of the example exit strategies.

10. Good luck! Congratulations!
You have completed the CATCH My Breath Youth E-cigarette Prevention Program.
You now have all the information you need to make informed choices about E- cigarette usage.
Congratulate students on completing the CATCH My Breath Youth E-cigarette Prevention Program.
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Good luck!