For this project, we researched tobacco as a public health issue and created an educational video.  We asked “What is tobacco?”. We wanted to show that tobacco is dangerous to your health. There are no safe substances in any tobacco products.  From acetone and tar to nicotine and carbon monoxide, all can kill you.

These dangerous substances, which you inhale when you smoke or use other products,  don’t just affect your lungs. They can affect your entire body. Public health promotes and protects the health of people and the communities where they live, learn, work and play.  Tabacco use is a public health issue because smokers are unaware of the harm tobacco uses causes  themselves and those around them.

Many people start smoking at a young age because they did not know how dangerous smoking tobacco is for your body.  Public health education on the dangers of using tabacco is important because better education will stop people from starting to smoking or help people quil.

For my final benchmark I choose to focus on tobacco and public health. But first What is public health? Public health is the science of protecting and improving the health of people and their communities. And what is tobacco? Tobacco is an agricultural crop, most commonly used to make cigarettes. It is grown all over the world and supports a billion-dollar industry. I decided to focus on tobacco because I felt like all i knew about it was that it was bad and a legal thing, also everyone everywhere smoke. I also know too many people that smoke all I can tell them is that smoking is bad stop smoking but I couldn’t say why. But after this project I learned that the regular cigarette might be safer then the new tools to smoke tobacco. I also know that people think they look cool while smoking by they don’t look really look cool. They are just putting their life in danger. Also the rhular cigarette reduces your life about 11 minute, but the new tools like hookah etcc is high in tar and might be high in nicotine also the chemicals in tobacco. Nicotine is the addictive thing in all cigarettes. Also we all know that smoking is bad I don’t understand why a lot of people still smoke. And why do government make it illegal.

Our Awareness PSA basically talked about what most kids or teens today are sometimes are too shy about. It shed light on the statistics of reproductive health and some benefits from it. So I decided to do the topic of Reproductive health because firstly I wanted to do a topic that we really don’t know that much of. I wanted to also educate myself  on a topic like this that’s very under-looked compared to many others. I contributed to my group by doing everything visually and video wise. I helped bring the picture together as well as help conduct some of the interviews. I feel as though we did well by finding out resources that were trustworthy. I think the honesty and comfortless within our interviewers especially with a topic that’s so embarrassing for some they did very well with speaking on with their own prior knowledge. If I could do this again I would try and make it more entertaining for younger viewers so that it was seem as though they are just being talked at. I want them to understand by being entertained if they find little scripts or methods for them to be entertain it will be something they will take with them for the rest of their lives. The most meaningful thing about our PSA would have to be the authenticity and realness of our interviews it’s not as if they were planned or rehearsed they were talking from experiences and using the utmost honesty.