Teaching Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris | Daily Lessons

Daily Lessons

This section contains 30 daily lessons. Each one has a specific objective and offers at least three (often more) ways to teach that objective. Lessons include classroom discussions, group and partner activities, in-class handouts, individual writing assignments, at least one homework assignment, class participation exercises and other ways to teach students about the text in a classroom setting. Use some or all of the suggestions provided to work with your students in the classroom and help them understand the text.

Lesson 1

Objective: In Chapter 1: Adoring the Devil's Breath, one of the first historical ironies of tobacco is that the original varieties of leaf created a harsh smoke that was bitter to inhale, which meant that most smokers would not inhale as a matter of practice. This condition, although still hazardous to the mouth, was far 'healthier' than taking the smoke down to the lungs where the body...
(read more)