Tobacco Use Prevention Curriculum for Students

On behalf of the World Health Organization, HHD developed and evaluated a curriculum for middle and high school students appropriate for both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. It was translated and adapted for Latin American students in Uruguay. This curriculum is substantially different from traditional prevention approaches, instead providing young people with media literacy skills to analyze and question advertising practices that promote youth tobacco use. The curriculum has been implemented in 19 schools reaching 1,460 children, with promising results.