Grade 8 - Health - Resources: Risky Behaviors

Tobacco, Vaping and Nicotine

Shows how social attitudes about smoking have changed dramatically over the past decades and discusses the negative effects of smoking tobacco and vaping and the addictive power of nicotine.

Blowing Smoke-- Vaping Teens

Discusses the use of e-cigarettes by teens, the likelihood that teens will start smoking tobacco products after vaping, the health risks of vaping, and related topics.

Addiction Incorporated

In the 1980s, Victor DeNoble was a research scientist at Philip Morris, a major tobacco company, where he was charged with the tasked of finding a substitute for nicotine in cigarettes that would not pose the risk of heart attack. In the process, DeNoble uncovered what the company had been hiding for years: that nicotine is addictive.

Addicted teens

Legal highs are man-made substances (chemicals) and strong stimulants that have similar effects to illegal drugs like cocaine, cannabis or ecstasy. They are sometimes called club drugs or new psychoactive substances (NPS) and provide physical, emotional and hallucinogenic effects and are marketed as a 'legal' high. They range from plants, to synthetic drugs, to medicines you can buy from a pharmacy. The program attempts to find out [a teen's motivation to try these drugs] by asking teens the question, what are legal highs?

Medicinal Cannabis

Looks at how researchers are now applying scientific rigor to covert anecdotal evidence on the positive effects of medicinal marijuana.