Be Cool, Stop Smoking: A Persuasive Smoking Campaign Presentation

This presentation outlines a 'Be Cool, Stop Smoking' campaign aimed at educating and raising awareness about the harmful effects of smoking. It highlights the global impact of tobacco use, with over 7 million annual deaths, and emphasizes that 80% of the world’s 1.1 billion smokers reside in developing countries. The campaign addresses the high percentage of smoking among youths, leading to illnesses like lung cancer and heart diseases. The objectives include preventing smoking among youths and adults, reducing addiction rates, creating awareness of smoking's harmful effects, promoting environmental protection, rehabilitating addicted individuals, and changing attitudes towards smoking. The presentation underscores the need for policies concerning smoking, improved treatment for victims, and restrictions on smoking advertisements and illegal sales to youths.

SMOKING CAMPAIGN
BE COOL, STOP SMOKING!!!

INTRODUCTION
 According to world health
(2018), more than 7 million
people die annually due
tobacco-smoking. More than
6 million people of this die
due to direct smoking.
 It is estimated that 80% of
the world’s 1.1 billion
smokers live in developing
countries.

 For example, tobacco itself contains a lot of nicotine that is
very addictive drug hence making it cumbersome for smokers
to stop smoking.
 It also contains harmful substances like nicotine that often
results to premature illnesses and deaths (Bala, Strzeszynski
& Topor‐Madry, 2017).
Continued…

 Previous research indicates that the high percentage of
youthful population has been extensively smoking. As a
result, a good number of youths who smoke becomes ill and
die because of smoking related diseases like lung-cancer,
throat-cancer, heart-diseases (Bala, Strzeszynski & Topor‐
Madry, 2017). That is the main reason for the smoking
campaign.
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Reasons for the campaign

 It is therefore necessary to carry out this campaign to
educate young people and create awareness on the dangers
of smoking.
 Also, the campaign will promote ban of smoking in public
place as well as ensure better health
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 Behavioral-objective:
 To facilitate the prevention of smoking among the youths and
adults
 To reduce the number of smokers who get addicted to this kind of
vice
 Knowledge-objective:
 To create awareness of harmful effects of smoking
 To educate youths and adults on the importance of environmental
protection (Bala, Strzeszynski & Topor‐Madry, 2017).
 To educate the minors as well as the non-smokers hence reducing
smoking prevalence in the society
Objectives of the campaign

 Belief-objective:
 To rehabilitate and treat the addicted persons from
smoking
 To give a changed attitude to children whose
parents are addicted to smoking
 The main overarching message for this campaign is that
smoking is harmful to your health and you should stop
smoking!!!
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 Smoking leads to serious illnesses that in many circumstances
become cancer and heart related diseases which in the end
results to mature deaths to young and adult people.
 So, there is serious need to conduct this campaign to restored
order and health standard in the society.
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 To develop and implement policies concerning smoking
 To initiate policies that will offer better treatment (changed
health system) to smoking victims
 To develop policies that restrict smoking adverts, price
increment and minimize illegal sales to youths.
Goals

 World Health Organization (2018). Tobacco factsheet.
Retrieved from;
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/tobacco
 Bala, M. M., Strzeszynski, L., & Topor‐Madry, R. (2017). Mass
media interventions for smoking cessation in adults. Cochrane
Database of Systematic Reviews, (11).
References