Tobacco: Book List
Literacy Connection
Horrible Harry and the Green Slime
by Suzy Kline, Frank Remkiewicz (Illustrator)
Room 2B is every child's dream. In these five short, easy-to-read stories of classroom life, Harry, Doug, and their friends enjoy Christmas, performing anti-smoking skits, and reading together. Great lessons are taught through entertaining stories.
ISBN: 0140389709 Publisher: Puffin; Reprint edition 1998 Ages 4-8
Room 2B is every child's dream. In these five short, easy-to-read stories of classroom life, Harry, Doug, and their friends enjoy Christmas, performing anti-smoking skits, and reading together. Great lessons are taught through entertaining stories.
ISBN: 0140389709 Publisher: Puffin; Reprint edition 1998 Ages 4-8
Tobacco and Your Mouth: The Incredibly Disgusting Story (Incredibly Disgusting Drugs)
by Adam Winters
This volume is chalked full of helpful stats, nasty but true facts and great views on the matter. Combined with sarcastic humor and accurate stats this is a must have for anyone looking for info on this topic.
ISBN: 0823932508 Rosen Publishing Group 2000 Ages 9-12
This volume is chalked full of helpful stats, nasty but true facts and great views on the matter. Combined with sarcastic humor and accurate stats this is a must have for anyone looking for info on this topic.
ISBN: 0823932508 Rosen Publishing Group 2000 Ages 9-12
Smoking 101: An Overview For Teens
by Margaret O. Hyde, John F. Setaro
The authors offer a straightforward discussion and maintain a direct and nonjudgmental tone. They do not condemn smokers; they put smoking on trial. They look at its tangible effects such as lung cancer, heart attacks, ulcers, and bad breath and also devote space to the intangibles. The authors provide background on many different types of tobacco products, the nature of tobacco advertising, and the industry in this country and worldwide.
ISBN-10: 076132 Twenty-First Century Books 2005 Grades 7-12
The authors offer a straightforward discussion and maintain a direct and nonjudgmental tone. They do not condemn smokers; they put smoking on trial. They look at its tangible effects such as lung cancer, heart attacks, ulcers, and bad breath and also devote space to the intangibles. The authors provide background on many different types of tobacco products, the nature of tobacco advertising, and the industry in this country and worldwide.
ISBN-10: 076132 Twenty-First Century Books 2005 Grades 7-12
Fiction
Smoking Stinks
By Kim Gosselin
This pointed lesson is told as the story of a classroom health report. There's a bit of humor at the outset as Maddie, contemplating her grandfather's terrible cough, blurts out, "Smoking stinks!" Readers will empathize with her embarrassment as the teacher confronts her for her outburst and assigns smoking as the topic for her report.
Grades K-3 ISBN: 1891383205
Eglin Long-Horn of Nightshade County: A Story about Tobacco Use and Choosing to Be Tobacco-Free
While visiting a family friend who lives in a tobacco field, Eglin Long-Horn the grasshopper meets Varina the ladybug and hears about the horrible consequences of using tobacco.
Grades 4-7 ISBN: 0944576257
Danny's Dilemma
By Christine Devault
The reader tries to help Danny make decisions about using tobacco and shares with him the consequences of each decision. The idea behind this series is a good one; using the participation format to encourage young people to make responsible decisions about drugs (Christy), tobacco (Danny), and alcohol (Serena).
Grades 5-8 ISBN: 0941816311
Smokey Dragons
By Jane Clarke
Dad is smoking again, and Ember has had enough. "I think you should try to give up. Your teeth are yellow. You've got bad breath and everything in our cave stinks of smoke." Having been told off by his family, Dad eventually gives up smoking - just in time.
Grades 1-4 ISBN: 1854307797
The Berenstain Bear Scouts and the Sinister Smoke Ring
When Brother begins hanging out with the Too Tall Gang, they draw him into their ring of stealing, lying, cheating, and especially smoking, and the Bear Scouts and Gramps help Brother resist the habit.
Grades K-2 ISBN: 0590944738
Cigarettes, Cigarettes: The Dirty Rotten Truth About Tobacco
By Peter Traynor
This landmark book tells a cautionary story for children that casts cigarette smoking in a most unfavorable light. The tale follows an afternoon adventure of four children one of whom who is a smoker.
Grades 4-6 ISBN: 188636608X
No Thanks, but I'd Love to Dance: Choosing to Live Smoke Free
By Jackie Reime
Conveying a positive, nonjudgmental message to children, this tale provides techniques for empowering them to refuse offers of tobacco in pursuit of a healthy, active lifestyle. Belle, an exuberant six-year-old, and her beloved Grandma Bee share a great love for dancing. As a result of tobacco use earlier in her life, Grandma Bee must now use an oxygen tank to assist in her breathing. Observant Belle, who cannot imagine life without dancing, consciously makes the lifelong choice to dance instead of smoke.
Grades K-2 ISBN: 1604430273
The Magic Box
By Olga Cossi
Mara, the star of her school basketball team, is secretly addicted to cigarettes. Meanwhile, her mother is the one who got the school to pass a "no smoking" rule for athletes. If Mara is discovered, she won't be able to play in the state competition.
By Olga Cossi
Mara, the star of her school basketball team, is secretly addicted to cigarettes. Meanwhile, her mother is the one who got the school to pass a "no smoking" rule for athletes. If Mara is discovered, she won't be able to play in the state competition.
Grades 5-9 ISBN: 0882897489
Smoke Screen
By Amy Goldman Koss
Mitzi's mom is trying to quit smoking and having a tough time. Meanwhile, Mitzi must deal with her complicated friendships and the little fib she told the boy she likes!
By Amy Goldman Koss
Mitzi's mom is trying to quit smoking and having a tough time. Meanwhile, Mitzi must deal with her complicated friendships and the little fib she told the boy she likes!
Grades 5-9 ISBN: 061331719X
Santa Quits
By Raenette Palmer
This book is about a simple request Santa receives from seven year old Stevie. However, his wish causes an uproar at the North Pole. When Mrs. Claus and the elves try to help Santa to quit smoking, things go from bad to worse.
Grades K-3 ISBN: 1890394084
Smoking (My Health)
By Alvin Silverstein
Explains exactly how smoking harms the body and how to break the habit, or avoid it altogether.
Grades K-5 ISBN: 0531162397
Non-Fiction
The Biography of Tobacco
By Carrie Gleason
"A Dangerous Leaf" wherein it is made clear that nicotine is addictive and various governments have prohibited smoking in public areas. In addition, a subsequent chapter titled "Tobacco and Health" has text and graphic pictures illustrating the diseases caused by smoking tobacco and the dangers of addition for young people.
Grades 4-7 ISBN: 0778724891
Jimmie Boogie Learns About Smoking
By Time Brenneman
Children easily identify with the characters in this true to life, captivating story. Children learn about addiction and the consequences of smoking cigarettes.
Grades 3-6 ISBN: 0970045328
Teens & Tobacco
By Susan S. Lang
If a well-presented argument can prevent anyone from smoking, this book is a good one to use as it's better than most. Lang and Marks address the issues of how and why young people start smoking, tobacco advertising directed at them, health and financial costs associated with tobacco, as well as changing societal attitudes toward its use. Following each chapter is a first-person narrative by a teen who has succumbed to the habit.
Grades 7-12 ISBN: 0805037683
Tobacco (Learn to Say No)
By Angela Royston
Discusses tobacco, how it damages the body, why people use it, and how to keep from ever starting to smoke.
Grades 5-7 ISBN: 1575722399
Cigarettes
By Elaine Landau
This book discusses the health issues associated with smoking, the history of tobacco use in the United States, and the various ways to quit smoking.
Grades 4-6 ISBN: 053116666X
No More Butts: Kicking the Tobacco Habit (Tobacco: the Deadly Drug)
Despite the well-known warnings about the dangers of tobacco, people continue to smoke, and new smokers join their ranks every day. But the warnings do get through to some people, and they decide to kick the tobacco habit.
Grades 5-9 ISBN: 1422208133
Nicotine & Cigarettes
By Gina De Angelis
Examines the dangers of nicotine use, including a history of the drug, its physiological and chemical effects, and ways of getting help with an addiction to it.
Grades 5-8 ISBN: 0791051757
Tobacco
By Rachel Lynette
What are bidis and kreteks? How does cigarette smoke affect the body? Why are there warnings on tobacco packages? Find the answers to these questions and more in Tobacco. Learn about the different forms of tobacco and how each affects the body.
Grades 7-12 ISBN: 140349696X
Smokeless Tobacco: Not a Safe Alternative (Tobacco: the Deadly Drug)
No smoke, no danger. Right? Wrong. Very wrong, as many people who thought they had chosen a safe way to get their tobacco fix have found out. "Smokeless Tobacco: Not a Safe Alternative" explains why "just a pinch between cheek and gum" is not a harmless way to use tobacco. Readers will learn about the health-related consequences of using smokeless tobacco. The U.S. government has taken steps to curtail the use of smokeless tobacco, especially when it comes to smokeless tobacco and young people.
Grades 4-8 ISBN: 142220815X
What Do You Know About Smoking?
By Pete Sanders
Two highly visual titles that focus on personal and social issues. On alternating pages, information heavily illustrated with posed full-color photographs is followed by full-color cartoon strips featuring children dealing with situations related to the topic.
Grades 4-7 ISBN: 0749637390
Kate Smokes Cigarettes
By Janine Amos
This text a provides hard-hitting, yet accessible approach to what happens to your body and your psyche when you become addicted to and damaged by smoking.
Grades 1-5 ISBN: 1842341081
Kick Butts! A Kids' Action Guide to a Tobacco-Free America
By Arlene B. Hirshfelder
Examines the history and current status of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco and provides an action guide for helping kids to stay smoke-free.
By Arlene B. Hirshfelder
Examines the history and current status of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco and provides an action guide for helping kids to stay smoke-free.
Grades 5-10 ISBN: 0382396332
Let's Talk About Smoking
by Elizabeth Weitzman
Discusses the dangers of smoking and ways to avoid starting the habit.
by Elizabeth Weitzman
Discusses the dangers of smoking and ways to avoid starting the habit.
Grades 2-5 ISBN: 1568382200
Straight Talk About Smoking
By Rachel Kranz
This book examines the reasons that people use tobacco and what it does to the body. It also details how tobacco companies promote their products and provides in-depth discussion of addiction, ways to quit and how to take action.
By Rachel Kranz
This book examines the reasons that people use tobacco and what it does to the body. It also details how tobacco companies promote their products and provides in-depth discussion of addiction, ways to quit and how to take action.
Grades 7-12 ISBN: 0816039763
Teenagers and Tobacco: Nicotine and the Adolescent Brain
Statistics about teens and smoking have caused concern among parents and health-care providers. Many reports seemed to place the blame for teen smoking on peer and media influence. But are they the only causes?
Grades 7-12 ISBN: 1422202461
