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Themes for Follow-up Discussion
(a) How does industry protect its workers?
(b) Study the design of a new town. What have planners tried to do?
Compare with a 19th Century town.
(Geography. History)
(c) Why do young people smoke?
(English literature. Religious
instruction)
UNIT 9 Health Hazards of Today
What is Cancer?
(a) The nature of the disease.
(b) Warning signs, early detection and treatment.
(c) Predisposing factors.
(d) Smoking and health.
Some Suggested Visual Aids
Selection of slides from filmstrips:
"Cancer"; "The Problem of Lung Cancer";
"How to give up Smoking";
from: Camera Talks Ltd.,
31, North Row,Park Lane,
W.1.
"Cigarettes and You"
Central Office of
Information.
Films:
"Smoking and You" Sound, Colour Runs 11 minutes
"The Smoking Machine" Sound, Colour, Runs 16 minutes (for
Younger children)
"Dying for a Smoke" (Cartoon) Sound, Colour, Runs 10 minutes
from: Central Film Library, Government Building, Bromyard
Avenue, W.3.
Themes for Follow'up Discussion
(a) Construct a simple cigarette smoking machine.
Collect and measure the amount of tar from a set number of
cigarettes.
(Biology. Chemistry. Mathematics)
fb) Trace the history and conquest of a former chronic illness such as
tuberculosis.
(Biology)
UNIT 10 Health Hazards of Today
Addiction
Alcohol and Drugs
(a) The effects on the body.
(b) The social aspects at home and abroad.
(c) The effects of addiction in the family group.