Set an example if you can:

• If you don't smoke, tell your students. Tell  them why you don't. 
• If someone you love died early because of smoking, tell your students.
• If you DO smoke, don't let your students know. Even if they don't show it, they look up to you and want to be like you. Don't give them the chance to imitate you in this trait. There may be some benefit in your students'  seeing  how hard it is for you to quit, but that may be overbalanced by them seeing you as healthy, likable, and someone they admire- and a smoker.
• Children with at least one smoking parent are twice as likely to smoke as children of nonsmoking parents. Your smoking could have a similar influence if young people know about it. 

 

Integrate tobacco concepts  in teaching writing:

• Have students write about someone they love who smokes. How do they feel about that person's  smoking?
• Have students write a letter to the editor or to the president of a tobacco company.
• Have students write about their own intentions about smoking.