General Description of Activity
Participants will experience the struggle an emphysema victim has breathing and understand the correlation between emphysema and smoking cigarettes.
Some questions and facts to use when presenting
1."Tell me what you know about cigarettes." Get responses -
2.When you inhale on a cigarette are you taking in oxygen? No – you are putting lots of chemicals in your body - but not oxygen
3.Does your body need oxygen to live? Yes
4.Does oxygen help build your brain? Yes
5.The chemicals in a cigarette make your lungs not work correctly and you cannot breathe properly. 6.Let's run in place for 1 minute - I will time you
7. That wasn't so bad - was it?
8. This time I want you to do the same thing but I want you to hold your nose and breathe through this little straw while running in place for 1 minute.
9. Stop - was this more difficult?
10. Raise your hand if you can describe how you felt running with your nose plugged and breathing through the little straw.
11. Get responses
12. People who smoke a lot get a disease called EMPHYSEMA - it causes you not to be able to take in a full lungful of air and then breath it back out.
13. Get a volunteer to - Blow up the balloon - see how it expands
14. Now lets try to blow up the balloon inside this water bottle
15. Is this easier? It is difficult. The balloon cannot expand like it needs to. Just like your lungs get when you have emphysema.
16. Do we want to smoke or be around second hand smoke that makes it hard for us to breathe? Absolutely not!!!!
Estimated number of teens needed
1-5
Best Place to Perform Commotion
Classrooms- anywhere that you have people’s full attention
Materials Needed
Estimated Budget
$1.00-$5.00
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