Tobacco Scavenger Hunt

tobacco scavenger hunt

General Description of Activity

Ever wonder how many tobacco ads or products in you see a week?  Now’s your chance to get the answer - a tobacco scavenger hunt!

 

Set a start and end date for the scavenger hunt, and hand out score sheets for players to keep track of what they see as they go to school, hang out, or go to work.  Anything with a tobacco brand name or brand symbol on it counts. Take all the players’ score sheets and add them together.  Once you've documented the pro-tobacco messages that you see every day, publicize what you've found.  Let local officials know, or hold a press conference.

 

 

Materials Needed

 

Use a copier and paper to make enough copies of this checklist:

 


SMOKING MESSAGES SCORE CARD

 

DIRECTIONS:

Record from your log the total number of smoking messages you found. Record the number of smoking messages you found in each place listed below and the number of promotions you saw for each brand.

 

NUMBER FOUND IN EACH PLACE

____ Ashtray

____ Backpack

____ Billboard

____ Book cover

____ Book bag

____ Briefcase

____ Brochure

____ Bumper sticker

____ Bus

____ Calendar

____ CD/tape cover

____ Convenience store display

____ Coupon/coupon dollars

____ Cutout poster

____ Flashlight

____ Grocery store offers

____ Hat

____ Internet

____ Jacket

____ Key chain

____ License plate

____ Magazine/newspaper ad

____ Magazine/newspaper coupon

____ Package/box

____ Playing cards

____ Poster/sign

____ Radio ad

____ Scoreboard

____ Shirt/T-shirt

____ Shopping cart

____ Sleeping bag

____ Sticker

____ Sweater/sweatshirt

____ Taxi

____ Other _________________

____ Other _________________

____ Other _________________

____ Other _________________

 

NUMBER OF CIGARETTE BRAND PROMOTIONS

____ Basic

____ Benson & Hedges

____ Camel

____ Doral

____ GPC

____ Grim Reapers

____ Kool

____ Liquid Zoo

____ Marlboro

____ Merit

____ Newport

____ Omni

____ Salem

____ Virginia Slims

____ Winston

 

NUMBER OF SMOKELESS TOBACCO BRAND PROMOTIONS

____Ariva

____Beech-Nut

____Copenhagen

____Kodiak

____Levi Garrett

____Red Man

____Red Seal

____Silver Creek

____Skoal

____Stonewall

____Timber Wolf

 

TOTAL NUMBER OF MESSAGES: _________

 

 

Best Place to Perform Commotion

 

This commotion should be performed anywhere tobacco messages are displayed in your community.

 

 

Estimated Number of Teens Needed

 

The more the better, but a minimum of three.

 

 

 
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