Conceptual Approach – using slice of life

[School bell rings, footsteps, people conversing in the background]

[Footsteps stop]

BOY ONE:  “Come on man, hurry up…we going to be late for lab.” 

BOY TWO: [sounds of walking continue] “I’m coming…I’m coming.”

BOY ONE: “Hey, you going out this Friday”?

BOY TWO: “Yeah, probably.”

BOY ONE: “Is, uh, Jan coming with you”?

BOY TWO: “I don’t think so.”

BOY ONE: “Wait a minute, I thought you two were really into each other.”

BOY TWO: “I don’t think so, not after what happen last time.”

BOY ONE:  “Why, what happened?”

BOY TWO:  “Well, ah…a few nights ago, you know…at that game.”

BOY ONE: “Uh huh…go on.”

BOY TWO: “I was like…kissing her.”

BOY ONE: [laughs], “yeah, then what happened?”

BOY TWO: “She tasted just like a cigarette, man.”

BOY ONE: “Oh geez.”

BOY TWO: “I really like her, too. But I don’t know, that kinda nasty.”

BOY ONE:  “Oh well… hey, maybe you’ll get used to it.”

BOY TWO: “I don’t think I want to get use to kissing an ashtray.”

BOY ONE: “Yeah, but you knew she smoked.”

BOY TWO: “Yeah, but I didn’t think it would be a problem.”

BOY ONE: “Yeah…I guess it is. [footsteps stop and background talking stops].”

NARRATOR:  “Uh huh, and smoking kills more people than AIDS…then murder…then suicide combined...more then all the other nasty ways of dying.  But go ahead, smoke away.” [footsteps walking away]