| Why
Weed Tobacco Education?
Pre-teens
and teenagers make their decisions on tobacco usage based
on peer pressure, anti-smoking messages, and persuasive
advertising campaigns.  The
peer influence and slick industry promotions are as current
as possible. Unfortunately, much of the anti-smoking information
readily available in school library media centers is too
dated to be credible to young people. Is your collection
guilty?
Suggested
Dewey Numbers to Check:
Look
in the 613.85s for titles on the preventative health aspects
of avoiding tobacco products. Titles on the physiological
effects of tobacco are found in the 616.86s. Tobacco as
an addictive substance titles are found in the 362.29s.
Remember to check your reference section and your AV collection.
This is one of those subject areas that the AV titles are
just as important (or even more important) than print.
Specific
Criteria for Weeding:
Presentation
is critical in tobacco education materials. Any message
the student reads (or hears) in this area is countered or
reinforced by their world. While the anti-smoking message
has stayed relatively consistent for the last 20 years,
the world has not. Print or audiovisual titles with outdated
illustrations (clothing, hair, family structure, cars, etc.)
should be discarded even if the text is still fairly accurate.
Content is the second weeding criteria.  Even
if the accuracy seems to be good, is it complete by today's
knowledge base? Is there up-to-date information on the effects
of second-hand smoke on allergies, pregnancy and low birth
weight babies, and smokeless tobacco products? Format is
the third area to consider in weeding tobacco education
materials. While you will have students looking for tobacco
information in your print collection, many more students
will receive this information as a "captive audience" for
classroom AV presentations! Begin by weeding any filmstrip
on this topic and then carefully examine all the other AV
titles on tobacco education. Check your collection for outdated
tobacco titles, and "weed 'em if you've got 'em!"
Consider
Weeding Titles Like These:
- Alcohol,
tobacco, and drugs : their use and abuse, 1977. LCCN 76030295
- Cigarette
country; tobacco in American history and politics, [1971].
LCCN 72134768
- A
doctor's book on smoking and how to quit, c1977. LCCN 76044217
- Don't
let smoking kill you!, [c1957]. LCCN 58022206
- Dying
to smoke, 1964. LCCN 64015836
- Everything
you wanted to know about smoking, but were afraid to ask,
1980. LCCN 80026918
- Helping
youth avoid four great dangers : smoking, drinking, VD,
and narcotics addiction, 1965. LCCN 65021962
- It's
really up to you : you & smoking, c1970. LCCN 73006918
- The
joy of quitting : how to help young people stop smoking,
c1979. LCCN 79004075
- Let's
learn about tobacco [filmstrip] : its history, chemistry
and effects, 1983.
- Nicotine;
an old fashioned addiction, 1985. LCCN 84014956
- Smoke
screen : tobacco and the public welfare, 1963. LCCN 63019623
- Smoking
: a research update [videorecording], 1984. LCCN 84730188
- Smoking
: your choice between life and death, [c1970]. LCCN 74103484
- Smoking
and your life, 1964. LCCN 64023119
- Smoking,
health, and personality, 1965. LCCN 65025233
- Smokeless
tobacco, it can snuff you out [videorecording], c1986. LCCN
85703675
- Tobacco
and alcohol : the $50,000 habit [kit], 1967. LCCN 67-002772
- Tobacco
and Americans, 1960. LCCN 60008114
- Tobacco
& your health : the smoking controversy, [1969]. LCCN
69013216
- Up
in smoke : how smoking affects your health [videorecording],
1982.
- When
and how to quit smoking, 1964. LCCN 64017588
- Women
and smoking, 1972. LCCN 72185319
- Young
people and smoking: the use and abuse of cigarette tobacco,
1964. LCCN 64024067
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