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Students Working against Tobacco
What is the full name of our team, often abbreviated SWAT?
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tobacco
What is the #1 preventable cause of death in the U.S.? It contributes to more deaths than alcohol, drug overdoses, AIDS, and violent crime together.
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a campaign
Every SWAT team selects and works on at least one of these.
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a policy
What is another word for a rule? It can be formal or informal. Examples include laws, ordinances (i.e., local laws), school policies, business policies, and household rules.
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Yes.
Have you finished watching the SWAT Training Videos and turned in your quizzes?
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the tobacco industry
What is SWAT is against?
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lying
What is the sin Big Tobacco has committed that SWAT works to resist and expose?
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the 24/7 Campaign
Which campaign's objective is to get all schools and school property in Oklahoma to be tobacco-free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week?
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advocate
What is another word that means "plead for or recommend a course of action?"
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Yes.
If you have a cell phone, have you downloaded a mobile app to study your SWAT Knowledge?
IF you DON'T have a cell phone, have you brought your SWAT Knowledge handouts with you today? |
health
What is SWAT NOT about?
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the facts
We believe that everybody has the right to make his or her own decision about whether to use tobacco. In order to make an informed decision, people must have ___ _____. SWAT works to provide them.
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the In the Clear Campaign
Which campaign's objective is to get public places in Oklahoma to be smoke-free?
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secondhand smoke
Burning tobacco and the exhaling lungs of a smoker emit what?
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Thank you for sharing!
Why are you are in SWAT? Share your reason.
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policy change
What is SWAT about? What does it hope to achieve?
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world hunger & global warming
Tobacco farming leads to which two major issues?
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the No Minor Issue Campaign
Which campaign's objective is to prevent youth access to tobacco products?
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measure of progress
Give the meaning of the acronym MOP.
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24/7 is a campaign conducted by Students Working against Tobacco. Its objective is to get all schools and school property in Oklahoma to be tobacco-free 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What is 24/7? Explain in your own words, please.
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"to empower and unite youth to resist and expose Big Tobacco's lies while changing current attitudes about tobacco"
What is SWAT's mission?
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candy flavoring, ad design, & ad placement
The tobacco industry markets to children in which three ways?
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surveys, message cards, video testimonials, educational presentations, media, signage, or thank-you cards to the principal, school board, & superintendent
Name five examples of measures of progress.
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the Master Settlement Agreement
What is the name of the 1998 legal settlement in which cigarette companies agreed to curtail certain marketing practices, to release internal memoranda, and to make annual payments to certain U.S. states and territories? In exchange the companies were e
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Yes.
Have you studied your SWAT Knowledge since our last meeting?
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