Peer Pressure

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Peer Pressure
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Contemporaries, equals, same age and circumstance
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Contemporaries, equals, same age and circumstance
Push, persuade, convince, force
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Indirect

• No direct pressure is applied tobacco use is
  observed
• The pressure is the feeling of being left out or
  different

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Direct

• Tobacco is offered directly to the person
• The pressure is being forced to choose to go
  along or not

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Put-Down

• The person is pressured through name calling,
  teasing, or slamming
• The pressure is being labeled as an outcast

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Hassle

• Continual pressure to try tobacco is aimed at the
  person including pestering, nagging or begging
• The pressure is being forced to say no over and
  over

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Scenario 1

• You and a friend are at the mall and you see a
  group of your classmates just outside the video
  arcade doors. As you both walk over to the area,
  you notice that all the kids are using chewing
  tobacco. Several of them offer some to you and
  your friend, but when you way no, one of your
  classmates asks, what are you afraid of?
  Another one suggests that you are scared.

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Scenario 1-Put-down

• You and a friend are at the mall and you see a
  group of your classmates just outside the video
  arcade doors. As you both walk over to the area,
  you notice that all the kids are using chewing
  tobacco. Several of them offer some to you and
  your friend, but when you way no, one of your
  classmates asks, what are you afraid of?
  Another one suggests that you are scared.

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Scenario 2

• When you got to high school this year, you made a
  new friend, someone who is in several of your
  classes. One day he/she invites you to a party
  to meet some other friends. You like this person
  and want to get to know him/her better. When you
  get to the party, you see your new friend with
  some of his/her friends smoking cigarettes. No
  one offers you a cigarette but you feel a little
  funny just standing there watching everyone else
  smoke.

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Scenario 2-Indirect

• When you got to high school this year, you made a
  new friend, someone who is in several of your
  classes. One day he/she invites you to a party
  to meet some other friends. You like this person
  and want to get to know him/her better. When you
  get to the party, you see your new friend with
  some of his/her friends smoking cigarettes. No
  one offers you a cigarette but you feel a little
  funny just standing there watching everyone else
  smoke.

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Scenario 3

• You stop at a friends house after school. Both
  of your friends parents are still at work. Your
  friend goes in to the kitchen and returns with a
  cigarette stolen from a pack of his/her mothers.
  He/she says, Come on, lets go out in the garage
  and smoke this.

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Scenario 3-Direct

• You stop at a friends house after school. Both
  of your friends parents are still at work. Your
  friend goes in to the kitchen and returns with a
  cigarette stolen from a pack of his/her mothers.
  He/she says, Come on, lets go out in the garage
  and smoke this.

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Scenario 4

• This year when you started high school, your best
  friend decided to start smoking. Everyday when
  you walk to school together your friend offers
  you a cigarette. He/she talks about smoking all
  the time and frequently says When are you going
  to try it? and You will like it its cool. On
  your birthday, he/she gave you a pack of
  cigarettes.

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Scenario 4-Hassle

• This year when you started high school, your best
  friend decided to start smoking. Everyday when
  you walk to school together your friend offers
  you a cigarette. He/she talks about smoking all
  the time and frequently says When are you going
  to try it? and You will like it its cool. On
  your birthday, he/she gave you a pack of
  cigarettes.

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Snappy Answers to Stupid Suggestions
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Just Say No

• Do you want a cigarette?
• No

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Suggest Something Else(something incompatible
with smoking?)

• Do you want a cigarette?
• Lets go online and listen to music

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Suggest Something Else(something incompatible
with smoking)

• Do you want a cigarette?
• Lets sit in the hot tub

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Give Your Reason(something incompatible with
smoking)

• Do you want a cigarette?
• Im an athlete, I need my lungs at their best

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Give Your Reason(something incompatible with
smoking)

• Do you want a cigarette?
• I hate the way they taste/smell
• I hate the way people look when they are
  smoking

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Try Some Humor

• Do you want a cigarette?
• No, brown hair doesnt go with my hair color

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Try Some Humor

• Do you want a cigarette?
• No, I dont want my breath to smell like I
  brushed my teeth with dog poo

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Stand Up and Have Some Guts

• Do you want a cigarette?
• No and I dont want any selfish jerks messing up
  my air quality either

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Stand Up and Have Some Guts

• Do you want a cigarette?

No, I could never look as Cool as you.
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Pictures of Cool People Smoking
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Pictures of smart people smoking.