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).