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Advocacy Message Development 1

The document provides guidance on developing an advocacy message to address cigarette smoking among teenagers. It includes a table to fill out with the identified issue of increased smoking leading to respiratory illnesses, the overall goal of decreasing smoking and illnesses by 2022, and proposed actions like educating teenagers and encouraging avoidance of smoking-linked activities. The target audience is identified as parents and teachers who are concerned about youth health and welfare. The message box frames the vision of healthier lifestyles for youth and identifies a knowledge gap around perceptions of occasional smoking risks among younger adolescents. It calls for educating teenagers on smoking risks and posting no smoking signs.

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Advocacy Message Development 1

The document provides guidance on developing an advocacy message to address cigarette smoking among teenagers. It includes a table to fill out with the identified issue of increased smoking leading to respiratory illnesses, the overall goal of decreasing smoking and illnesses by 2022, and proposed actions like educating teenagers and encouraging avoidance of smoking-linked activities. The target audience is identified as parents and teachers who are concerned about youth health and welfare. The message box frames the vision of healthier lifestyles for youth and identifies a knowledge gap around perceptions of occasional smoking risks among younger adolescents. It calls for educating teenagers on smoking risks and posting no smoking signs.

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Advocacy Message Development

Activity Guide 2

GROUP ACTIVITY

Fill-up the table below as you create your advocacy message. Follow the steps presented in the
recorded lecture.
1. What your identified issue/ problem

Problem and WHY Overall advocacy Goal/ ACTION


WIN

Smoking of cigarettes - Educate the


among teenagers - to decrease the teenagers on
number of what are the
- Increased number students causes of
of young people smoking smoking
having cigarettes - Encourage
respiratory and having a your teen to
disease/illnesses decrease in avoid people,
and decreased respiratory places and
physical fitness, disease/illnesses activities that
it also has an linked to he or she links
potential effects smoking by 2022 with smoking.
on their lungs - Cooperate and
and its function. coordinate with
the admins and
staffs to post
“NO
SMOKING”
signages
- School
Guidance and
Clinic
Counselling

2. Who is your target audience? Identify their values and core concerns.
Parents and Teachers - concern about healthy Lifestyle of the youth > welfare of all the teenagers
3. Make your message box

Healthy Lifestyle of Youth

Knowledge gap:
Vision - Younger adolescent are
- Students who smoke susceptible into believing that
cigarettes will be light and intermittent smoking
reduced and will have a are not harmful.
healthier lifestyle by the -
end of 2022

Ask (Action)

- Educate teenagers about the risk of


smoking
- Post “NO SMOKING” signs around the area
-

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