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All Choked Up By Smoking Statistics
GEM Element	Element Value
title	All Choked Up By Smoking Statistics
description	In this lesson, students use the article "More College Students Are Smoking, Study Says" as a springboard for discussion on the reasons why people smoke cigarettes and investigate different methods of graphing statistics by using the data provided in the article. Students also create graphs from a table provided by the American Lung Association regarding smoking habits among high school seniors from 1976 to 1997 as a way to demonstrate understanding of how to present statistics graphically in a variety of ways.
medium	text/HTML
subject	statistics, consumer health, body systems and senses, smoking, instructional issues,
type	Lesson plan
level	8, 12, 11, 9, 10, 6, 7,
keywords	Smoking habits, Graphing statistics,
mediator	Teachers, Students,
beneficiary	Students
priceCode	Free
onlineprovider	The New York Times Electronic Media Co.
recordCreated	2001-08-06T16:06:46-5:00
CatalogingTool	GEMCat 3.21
IndividualCataloger	GEM
Identifier
sid	NYTimesLearning
rights	http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/copyright.html

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