Session 1 Health Aspects (60 minutes)

1. The medical students first present a 10 minute Video on Testimonies from Teenage Smokers on how smoking has already affected their lives. To preview this Video, visit the Main Menu of our web-site http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/main and click Video 5.

After the Video, they state " The teenagers that you just saw already had serious problems from their smoking. They already had problems with severe nicotine addiction, dating, physical fitness, athletic ability and their health and they are all heading directly toward one or more of the diseases that you are about to see in the next Video which is a Science Video.

2. Our 24 minute, award winning Science Video is then shown. This Video presents each of the Surgeon Generals warnings (i.e. mouth, throat and lung cancers, emphysema, chronic bronchitis, coronary heart disease, complications in pregnancy, cosmetic consequences and consequences in youths) as medically illustrated patient histories followed by simple explanations of how smoking caused their diseases (i.e. pathogenesis). To preview this Video, visit the Main Menu of our web-site http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/main  and click Video 2 (also available in Spanish, Video 2a and Chinese, Video 2b)

3. A one page audience Hand-out is then reviewed summarizing the Take Home Message for Session 1 and providing Home-Work for Session 2. See Medical Student Orientation URL http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/PITCHENIK-TOBACCO_AWARENESS.pdf  (page 7)

4. The remainder of the period is then spent on interactive questions and answers generated by the audience.

Session 2 Social Aspects (60 minutes)

1. A 30 minute Video is shown on how tobacco companies sell their products (their lures and their hook), the consequences of second hand smoke and how and why to say "NO" to tobacco. This Video is presented in youth oriented venues including raw testimonies from teenagers, vividly graphic Techno and interactive RAP Karaoke Music Videos and Kids of the World providing examples on how and why to say "NO" to a smoke.
To preview parts of this Video visit the Main Menu of our web-site  http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/main  and click on Videos 6-9.

2. The remainder of the period is spent addressing the interactive class exercises in their Homework (assigned in Session 1) in which tobacco refusal skills are practiced, the above Social topics discussed and questions answered. 

To prepare for the question and answer periods and class interaction, the medical students review our Video Study Plan which contains Answers to the most common Questions posed by young audiences after they see our Videos (pages 9-35), a Glossary of medical terms (pages 51-55) and an annotated True False Test on the addictive, health and social aspects of teen smoking (pages 66-71). To view this resource, visit the Main Menu of our web-site http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/main and click on Video Study Plan.

I believe that any interested person (especially health care workers and students) can conduct this Community Project targeting youths and in so doing gain experience in preventive medicine and save lives. 

To  obtain visually high quality copies of the above "They're Rich, You're Dead" Videos on one Videocassette and/or DVD at a very low copying cost (i.e. the same price that we pay for copying our Video) call our fulfillment company at 305-856-1245 or 1-800-833-1245. Permission is granted to make any number of additional copies provided they are used for non-profit public service, copied intact and not edited.

A full description of our teaching materials and a list of prices is on our web-site: http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/020706AP-SMOKING-PRICE_LIST.pdf

A full description of how our medical students are oriented, prepare for and implement our Program is also on our web-site: http://www.mededu.miami.edu/Tobacco/PITCHENIK-TOBACCO_AWARENESS.pdf 

Please pass this information on to your constituency if you think that it would be useful to enhance existing Smoking Prevention Projects or encourage the initiation of new ones in your area.

Arthur E. Pitchenik MD
Director, University of Miami School of Medicine-
Tobacco Awareness Program for Community Youths
Office Phone 305-575-3170  Cell Phone 305-318-0576  FAX 305-575-3412 

Note: To view the Videos on our web-site, a rapid Internet connection and the plug-in Real Player are required. To view the Description and Price list of Materials and the Medical Student Orientation, the plug-in Adobe Acrobat is required. If needed, Real Player and Adobe Acrobat can be downloaded free from the Main Menu of our web-site.