Your role is: Health Today Journalist _________________
What you have to do:
You are a journalist of one of Malaysia’s top health magazines. Being a health journalist for almost 20 years, you have lots of expertise in interpreting and gathering information regarding smoking from various media sources, locally and internationally. As such, you are required to draw on your experience and knowledge to discuss and explain how media influences the society to smoke to your group members. You will also need to justify to the reasons why the information on media advertising is important to be included in your group's scrapbook.
You may use these questions as guidelines to support your explanation:
a) In what ways media promotes tobacco use?
b) What are the purposes for tobacco advertising?
c) To whom these advertisements are targeted at? Why?
Here are your reading lists. You may jot down any important points:
b) How Schools and Channel One Promote Tobacco to Students (page 3-7)
Good Luck!
