For this activity you will need to conduct a survey of 50 randomly selected students at your school about tobacco use.Ask them if they used tobacco on one or more of the preceding 30 days.If they did, then ask them the type of tobacco used.The categories are cigarettes, cigars, smokeless (chewing or snuff), pipes, bidis (also spelled beedies), or kreteks.To find out what bidis are, click here.To find out what kreteks are click here.If a student uses more than one kind of tobacco, indicate the one used most often.Total all the tobacco users out of 50 to get the number who make any use of tobacco.Convert your data to percents. (Since you surveyed 50 students and percent means per hundred, just multiplying your numbers by 2 will make them into percents.)

Once you have your data and percents are recorded check out the Center for Disease Control‘s National Youth Tobacco Survey, 1999 results.Click here.

Construct a chart or graph of your data in a similar fashion to the one shown on that web site.

Copy and paste the questions below to a blank Word document.Answer the questions, then print them out to submit to the teacher.

Name ____________________________Date ________________

1.How does your data compare to the national data?

2.Do more students or less students at you school use tobacco?

3.Give some possible reasons for the difference.

4.Were you surprised at the results? If so, why?

5.Why are the hazards of smoking bidis greater than that ofcigarettes?

6.Where are bidis and kreteks made?