Drug and alcohol education these days focuses a lot on the dangers of opioids and with good reason.

But of all drugs, tobacco still presents the greatest long-term risk to your health.In Weatherly School District, students understand the importance of educating kids about tobacco, even as attentions have shifted elsewhere.On Wednesday, members of Teens Against Tobacco Use - made up of students in grades nine and 12 - addressed fifth-grade students at Weatherly Elementary School about the dangers of tobacco.The message is much stronger coming from a high school student that the children look up to, their adviser said."Each one of these kids are good students, involved in extracurriculars - it's role models for them to look up to and say 'hey, they don't need smoking," program adviser and school nurse Rebekah McFadden said.High school students engaged the students with activities and visual aids.The most striking display was a comparison of two sets of pig lungs - one that simulated a smoker's and another, a healthy set.The effect of smoking was simulated by having the students do jumping jacks and then breathing through a drinking straw."That's gonna make it feel like you've been smoking for a few years," TATU member Michael Kennelly said.They talked about the actual ingredients in a cigarette. Student Louis Mastroddi said that cigarettes contain chemicals found in tiki torch oil, batteries and rocket fuel."You know how bad it is to have rocket fuel in your lungs? It might sound cool, but no, it's not good. That's why you don't do this. That's what's inside cigarettes," Mastroddi said.They also talked about the financial consequences of smoking. A pack-a-day smoker in Pennsylvania, assuming an average price of $6.81 - can pay up to $2,500 per year on cigarettes alone."As you get older, money becomes more valuable. Cigarettes are just a total waste of money," Lynea Reiner said.McFadden said that they chose fifth-graders for the lesson because they are going to be faced with choices regarding tobacco as they enter their teenage years.TATU has been making presentations at Weatherly for 10 years. Not only do they encourage the kids to make good decisions, they are also looked at as leaders themselves.The senior class will choose a group of freshmen to carry on their work, and then they learn and return when it's their senior year."When they're freshmen, they're so shy. Now to see the seniors, who didn't know what to do at first, it blows your mind," said Jacqui Verhauz of Carbon/Monroe/Pike Drug and Alcohol Commission.