Tar Wars, a tobacco-free education program for fourth- and fifth-grade students, is designed to teach kids about the short-term, image-based consequences of tobacco use, the cost associated with using tobacco products, and the advertising techniques used by the tobacco industry to market their products to youth. Staff from Southcoast Hospitals Group offered a customized version of the Tar Wars program to 5th graders at the Atlantis Charter School in April, 2008. For further information about the program, contact Joyce Dolin, R.N., M.S., Director of the Southeast Rehabilitation Center and Moran 3, Charlton Memorial Hospital, at 508-679-7219, or email her at dolinj@southcoast.org.
 

(Top row, center) Nancy Medeiros, RN, Nurse Manager at Charlton Memorial Hospital, talks with students about the short-term and long-term effects of tobacco use. (Top row, right) Christina Spicola poses questions of some of the students. (Middle row) Students try breathing through soda straws and coffee stirrers to simulate the effects of emphysema on breathing. (Bottom row, left) Ms. Almeida poses questions from a "smoker's roulette" game.(Bottom row, center) Charlton nurse Judith Pearson uses a display to show students some of the effects that smoking can produce on lung tissue and function. (Bottom row, right) Students examine some of the effects that tobacco can produce.

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