Education for the participants about the chemicals they have been exposed to while smoking.

Inform the participants there are over 5,000 chemicals in every cigarette. Use common term everyday terms when describing these additives:

Paint thinner

Insecticide

Materials used to make moth balls

Material used to fill holes in the road

Metal

Deadly poison

Materials used in batteries

Materials used to make dye

Materials used in embalming

Household cleaner

Rat poison

Lighter fluid

Material that comes out of your cars tail pipe

A cancer- causing radioactive element

Insecticide that has been banned from general household use

And 36 other known cancers causing additives. Explain that nicotine is the additive to the cigarettes that causes addition. The other additives are what cause the cancers, heart problems, emphysema, etc.

Ask for input from the participants now knowing this information.