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The Smoking Problem This is a three-part slide show presentation designed for Chinese college and high school students. China's modern culture has incorporated smoking into part of its definition of what it is to be a Man, and although there is little health awareness regarding smoking, it is the cultural aspect that is primarily responsible for China's massive smoking epidemic. In the West, it is obviously too late to change the habits of the adult population; in China, as in the West, it will be the student population that mobilizes the change. There is an assignment prior to the class; its purpose is to start the students thinking about a subject that is otherwise taken for granted. It involves writing a short paper and then reading a short interview with Chinese people whose lives have been affected by smoking. Assignment - This is the October, 2009 Class Assignment Interview - This is the Wu Fingping Interview The Smoking Problem - This is a three-part MS PowerPoint slide show presentation For each part there is a PowerPoint version, and there is a streaming (Flash) version. Download the PowerPoint version if you want to view the notes and use it to present to the class. (It is 20meg in size, and may take a long time to load!) The three parts are:
The segments currently are designed primarily for English classes for Chinese students; because of this, each segment takes 90 minutes to present. Some of my students are working on a Chinese version so it can be presented just as a program about smoking to students throughout China; that version will be much shorter.
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