Health 8

Quarter 4 – Module 1: Week 1

Gateway Drugs – Prevention of
Cigarette and Alcohol Use
 Health - Grade 8
Alternative Delivery Mode
Quarter 4 - Module 1: Gateway Drugs – Prevention of
Cigarette and Alcohol Use.
First Edition, 2020

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Health
Quarter 4 – Module 1: Week 1

Gateway Drugs – Prevention of

Cigarette and Alcohol Use

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 For the facilitator:

Welcome to the Health 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on the

Gateway Drugs – Prevention of Cigarette and Alcohol Use!

This module was collaboratively designed, developed and reviewed by educators both
from public and private institutions to assist you, the teacher or facilitator in helping the
learners meet the standards set by the K to 12 Curriculum while overcoming their personal,
social, and economic constraints in schooling.

This learning resource hopes to engage the learners into guided and independent
learning activities at their own pace and time. Furthermore, this also aims to help learners
acquire the needed 21st century skills while taking into consideration their needs and
circumstances.

As a facilitator you are expected to orient the learners on how to use this module. You
also need to keep track of the learners' progress while allowing them to manage their own
learning. Furthermore, you are expected to encourage and assist the learners as they do the
tasks included in the module.

For the learner:

Welcome to the Health 8 Alternative Delivery Mode (ADM) Module on the

Gateway Drugs – Prevention of Cigarette and Alcohol Use!

The hand is one of the parts of the human body. It is often used to depict skill, action
and purpose. Through our hands we may learn, create and accomplish. Hence, the hand in
this learning resource signifies that you as a learner is capable and empowered to
successfully achieve the relevant competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your
academic success lies in your own hands!

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful opportunities for
guided and independent learning at your own pace and time. You will be enabled to process
the contents of the learning resource while being an active learner.

This module has the following parts and corresponding icons

What I Need to Know This will give you an idea of the skills or
competencies you are expected to learn in the
module.

What I Know This part includes an activity that aims to check

what you already know about the lesson to take. If
you get all the answers correct (100%), you may
decide to skip this module.

What’s In This is a brief drill or review to help you link the

current lesson with the previous one.

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 What’s New In this portion, the new lesson will be introduced to
you in various ways such as a story, a song, a
poem, a problem opener, an activity or a situation.

What is It This section provides a brief discussion of the

lesson. This aims to help you discover and
understand new concepts and skills.

What’s More This comprises activities for independent practice

to solidify your understanding and skills of the
topic. You may check the answers to the exercises
using the Answer Key at the end of the module.

What I Have Learned This includes questions or blank

sentence/paragraph to be filled in to process what
you learned from the lesson.

What I Can Do This section provides an activity which will help you
transfer your new knowledge or skill into real life
situations or concerns.

Assessment This is a task which aims to evaluate your level of

mastery in achieving the learning competency.

Additional Activities In this portion, another activity will be given to you

to enrich your knowledge or skill of the lesson
learned. This also tends retention of learned
concepts.

Answer Key This contains answers to all activities in the

module.

At the end of this module you will also find:

References This is a list of all sources used in developing this module.

The following are some reminders in using this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part of the module.
Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. Don’t forget to answer What I Know before moving on to the other activities included
in the module.
3. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
4. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your answers.
5. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
6. Return this module to your teacher/facilitator once you are through with it.
If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not hesitate to
consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you are not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning and gain deep
understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!
What I Need to Know

This module is designed to equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills and
values to achieve competence in maintaining good health, social awareness and good
physical condition.
This module provides you different activities that will help you become familiar with
the topics or lessons on the components of consumer health. Assistance of your parents,
siblings or relatives is encouraged in answering the module particularly in the activities
where you need to perform tasks.

After working on this module, you are expected to:

1. Demonstrate personal responsibility in the prevention of cigarette and alcohol use
through the promotion of a healthy lifestyle.

2. Demonstrate understanding of factors that influence cigarette and alcohol use

and strategies for prevention and control.

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What I Know

Pretest:

Directions: Read and answer each item below by writing YES

or NO. Total the number of yes responses for items 1 to 5, 6 to
13 and 14 and 15.

1. Do you smoke?
2. Is there someone who lives with you who smoke?
3. Do you have friends who smoke?
4. Are you often exposed to cigarette smoke?
5. Do you sometimes find yourself with people who smoke?
6. When people around you smoke, do you let them know that you do
not want to inhale or smell their smoke?
7. Have you tried disapproving look at people who smoke to let them
know that you indirectly dislike smoking?
8. Have you ever commented about someone smoking but not directly
to the smoker?
9. Have you ever asked smokers to get rid of their smoke?
10. Have you ever asked smokers to transfer to another place so that
you would not inhale their smoke?
11. Have you ever tried moving away from a smoker who does not listen
to your appeal?
12. If you are in a vehicle and someone is smoking, do you roll down the
window or turn towards the window to avoid inhaling smoke?
13. Have you ever tried moving away from a smoker without asking
him/her to move away instead?
14. Will you just let smokers smoke near you, choosing to be passive,
saying nothing and doing nothing?
15. Are you afraid that if you speak out and ask a smoker to stop
smoking or move away from you, that he/she will laugh or get mad at
you?
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Gateway Drugs – Prevention of
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What’s In

Activity 1: Which Zone Are You IN?

Directions: Copy and answer BOX A if you are in the PASSIVE
ZONE. On the other hand, copy and answer BOX B if you
are in the ACTIVE ZONE.

BOX A (PASSIVE ZONE) BOX B (ACTIVE ZONE)

1. My first step in standing up for my 1. I will help passive smokers who are
rights when I am in danger of being afraid to stand up for their rights to
exposed to cigarette smoke is . speak up for themselves on the issue of
second hand smoke by .
2. The last time I inhaled someone else’s
smoke, I became a passive smoker 2.Every time a person smokes near me, I
. politely react by .
3. I will do the following steps to become 3. The following are my ways of protecting
more active about avoiding passive my health from the dangers of
smoke: . smoke.
4. The benefits of sharing this healthy
4. I know that the benefits of being active information will be .
about avoiding smoker are .
Activity 2: SELF- INVENTORY (ALCOHOL: IS IT COOL?)

Direction: Read and answer each item below by writing YES or NO: Total the number
of YES responses.

1. Have you ever had a drink mixed with alcohol?

2. Have you ever had more than one glass or bottle of
alcoholic drink
in a two-hour period?
3. Do you drink alcoholic beverages on a regular basis
everyday
every weekend, at all parties attended?
4. Do you drink alcoholic beverages to get away from
problems?
5. Do you drink alcoholic beverages to become more
comfortable with other people?
6. When you are troubled or angry, do you drink alcohol
right away?
7. Have you ever received comments about drinking?
8. Do you get irritated or annoyed when people talk about
your drinking?
9. Do you drink until the supply is gone?
10. Do you sometime deny your drinking when someone
asks if you drink?
11.Do you find at difficult to say no when someone else
invites you for a drink?
12. Do you sometimes drink event though you know that it
will affect your work or class the next day?
13. Do you leave class or work just to attend a drinking
session with groups?
14. Are your grades suffering because of your drinking?
15. Have your friends left or avoided you became of your
drinking?
What is your score in the self- inventory?

Give yourself 1 point for every YES answer. Total your score and
read the interpretation below.

SCORE ENTERPRETATION
0-2 Congratulations! You do not have a problem
with alcohol.
3-5 You could be on your way to having a problem
with alcohol.
6-8 Chances are you already have a problem with
alcohol.
9 and above You really need help! You have a serious
problem with alcohol.

What’s New

Activity 3: ANSWER THIS!

Answer the following questions in your activity sheet.

1. How can you avoid the risks of being an alcoholic? List ways and
explain each.

2. What if someone asks you to drink an alcoholic beverage, what

will you say and do to avoid the situation?

3. What if a friend of yours invited you for a drink at his/her house and
told you he/she will drive you home after, what will be your reaction?

4. Why is it important not to drive vehicles when you went drinking?

 What is it
Tobacco is a tall, leafy plant, originally grown in South
and Central America, but now cultivated throughout
the world. There are many species of tobacco but
“Nicotiana tabacum” or sometimes called “common
tobacco” is preferred for producing present day
cigarettes. Tobacco use has been recorded as early as
600-900 C.E. as carved drawings on stones were
discovered in Mexico. American Indians smoked it for
special religious occasions and medical purposes only.
They never smoked cigar everyday.

Nicotiana tabacum (photo from

species_images/Nicotiana_tabacum.jpg)

According to the World Health Organization, tobacco smoking and chewing is the second
leading cause of death around the world. It is responsible for the death of one in ten adults
worldwide, approximately reaching about 5 million deaths in a year. It is estimated that the
death toll will rise to 10 million each year, by the year 2020.
Each time a person puffs a cigarette or chew tobacco, more than 4,000 chemicals comes into
his/her contact. All of these chemicals harm people one way or another. In studies conducted,
43 of these chemicals are known carcinogens. Carcinogens are substances which cause
cancer. Nicotine, the addictive drug found in tobacco products like cigarettes is a poisonous
stimulant. A stimulant drug increases the central nervous system (CNS) activity. The central
nervous system controls all body organs like the heart, lungs, brain and processes like heart
rate, blood pressure rate, respiration rate, and more.

Every time a cigarette is lit, smoke is emitted. There are three smokes produced by
cigarette smoking namely:

Mainstream Smoke - refers specifically to the smoke that a smoker directly inhales.

Sidestream Smoke – the smoke that comes out of the lighted end of a cigarette
or pipe. This is also called “second-hand smoke (SHS) or
envi- ronmental tobacco smoke (ETS). This is more
dangerous
 than mainstream smoke because it is not filtered and
is easi- ly absorbed by body cells. It also contains
more carcinogens.

Third-hand Smoke – smoke left for a long time on sofa, beddings, pillow
and other objects. This smoke also called “residual
tobacco smoke (RTS)” settles along with dust and
can last for months. This smoke still contains harmful
chemicals and carcinogens.

The “Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA)” classifies secondhand smoke as
a Group A carcinogen. This means that
cigarette smoke has substances known
to cause cancer to humans. Short
exposures to secondhand smoke can
also cause changes in a passive
smoker's blood, making blood platelets
stickier, adding friction to the blood
vessels causing damages to its lining
and thus causes an increase in heart rate
and performance (www.epa.gov).

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POLICIES AND LAWS AGAINST CIGARETTE SMOKING
Republic Act No. 9211, otherwise known as “The Tobacco Regulation Act
of 2003” is the law governing tobacco productions, distribution and use of the public
consumers. Some of the important provisions of R.A. 9211 are the following:

HEALTHFUL ENVIRONMENT

Section 5. Smoking Ban in Public Places. - Smoking shall be absolutely

prohibited in the following public places:

a. Centers of youth activity such as playschools, preparatory schools,

elementary schools, high schools, colleges and universities, youth
hostels and recreational facilities for persons under eighteen (18) years
old

b. Elevators and stairways

c. Locations in which fire hazards are present, including gas stations

and storage areas for flammable liquids, gas, explosives or
combustible materials

d. Within the buildings and premises of public and private hospitals,

medical, dental, and optical clinics, health centers, nursing homes,
dispensaries and laboratories

e. Public conveyances and public facilities including airport and ship

terminals and train and bus stations, restaurants and conference halls,
except for separate smoking areas

f. Food preparation areas

Section 9. Minimum Age Sales. – Under this Act, it shall be unlawful

a. For any retailer of tobacco products to sell or distribute tobacco products to any
minor (persons below 18 years of age)

b. For any person to purchase cigarettes or tobacco products from a minor

c. For a minor to sell or buy cigarettes or any tobacco product

d. For a minor to smoke cigarettes or any other tobacco products

It shall not be a defense for the person selling or distributing that he/she did not
know or was not aware of the real age of the minor. Neither shall it be a defense
that he/she did not know nor had any reason to believe that the cigarette or any
other tobacco product was for the consumption of the minor to whom it was sold.

Section 10. Sale of Tobacco Products Within School Perimeters. – The sale or
distribution of tobacco products is prohibited within one hundred (100) meters from
any point of the perimeter of a school, public playground or other facility
frequented particularly by minors.
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 What’s More

My Personal Goals:
After reading the information and doing the activities in this learning material. I as a learner
will be able to do the following.

1. .
2. .
3. .
4. .

What I Have Learned

Why do Teenager Smoke?

Why do teenagers smoke?

Why do teenagers experiment on more

dangerous drugs?

1. Why do teenagers smoke?

2. Why do teenagers experiment in more dangerous drugs?
3. What are healthier and safer alternatives to smoking?
 What I Can Do

How To Say No!

Practice this three-step technique for saying NO. Ask yourself each of the questions. Ask a
family member, a classmate, or a friend these questions and positively ask him/her you
position.
STEP 1 : What is the problem?
Say what is wrong. Say “that is wrong.” or “ smoking is bad.” or “that is prohibited.” Or
“Drinking alcohol is against the school rules.”
STEP 2: What could happen?
Ask the following:
Could anyone be harmed if I do it including you? How?
Could it get you into trouble? What trouble?
Would it make you feel bad if you do it?
STEP 3: What are the ways of saying NO?
Choose from any of the following:
Say No. “No, I’m not interested.” Or simply say “ NO”
Change the topic.
Tell the truth.
Joke about it.
Give reasons.
Tell a story.
Walk away if you can’t change your friend’s mind.

Assessment

A. TRUE OR FALSE: Write True if the statement is true or False if it is false.

1. Alcoholism or alcohol dependence is a diagnosable disease

characterized by
several factors.
2. Excessive alcohol use can lead to the development of chronic
diseases.
3. Secondhand smoke is not dangerous to one’s health.
 4. Smoking inside the school premises is a violation of R.A. 9211.
5. Alcoholism is commonly referred to as the family disease.

B. Supply the missing word by writing the correct answer in your answer
sheet.

1. Cigarette smoking primarily affects the system.

2. is a plant whose leaves can be rolled in a cigar or pipe and can be

smoked.

3. A kind of smoke emitted by cigarette which smokers directly inhale is called

.

4-5. Examples of gateway drugs are and .

Additional Activity

Gateway To A Healthy Family Life

pencil, marker, bond paper

On a bond paper, draw a gate on the

lower left side. Leading from the gate
will be pathways that will describe directions
their life will take. Draw these paths
and write beside the paths your goals and targets
in life (present and future). Share
the output with friends, parents, relatives,
and teachers.
sample drawing
Congratulations! You’re done.

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Answer Key

ASSESSMENT:

A.
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2. Tobacco jcyap
3. First hand
smoke/mainstream
4-5 Alcohol/Cigarette

B.
1. TRUE jcyap
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE

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 References
Merki, M. and Merki, D. ( 1996). Health: A Guide to Wellness. California, U.S.A Glencoe / McGraw-Hill.

Ryder, V. (1990). Contemporary Living. Illinois, U.S.A. The Goodheart-Willcox Co., Inc.

En. Wikipedia.org

www.chaneobles.com

www.goodcharacter.com

www.peelregion.ca

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