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 Tobacco Ads in Stores Increase the Odds Your Child Will Smoke
If that makes YOU mad about ads, you're not alone. Get informed. Get involved. Here's what you can do to make a difference.
Which area supermarkets will be the first to kick butts?
Sign a petition to end tobacco sales
in grocery stores.
Area and statewide organizations, in full-page ads
in the Daily Gazette and Times Union on April 2, 2008, Kick Butts Day, called on area supermarkets to follow the lead of other New York State grocery chains and end the sale of tobacco products. More. . .
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Act to Protect
Capital District Children!
More than 3,000 Capital District consumers want to make tobacco advertising and tobacco product placement less visible in retail stores. Add your voice to theirs and tell local retailers what you think.
WHO Report: Tobacco could kill one billion by 2100, but there ARE cost-effective solutions. More. .
NYS Health Commissioner Petitions FDA to make over-the-counter nicotine therapies as easy to buy as cigarettes. More. . . |
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 New York Cigarette Tax Increase
Delivers Victory for Kids
and Taxpayers
New York's leaders have taken historic action to protect the state's kids and taxpayers from the devastating toll of tobacco use by increasing the state cigarette tax by $1.25 to $2.75 per pack.
The
$1.25 cigarette tax increase will prevent more than 243,000 New York kids alive today from smoking. For more on this public health win. . .
Albany & Schenectady County Legislatures Pass POP Resolutions
See Resolutions, passed unanimously, encouraging tobacco retailers to reduce or eliminate tobacco advertising in their stores.
NY State Fair Grandstand Smoke-Free!!
 For the first year ever, the 16,000 seat grandstand, scene of concerts every day during the run of the fair, will be smoke-free. Enjoy! More. . .
 American Lung Issues Tobacco Control
Report Card
See marks for New York on smokefree air, cigarette tax, tobacco prevention spending, and youth access to tobacco products.
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Tobacco-Free Campuses
The national college smoking rate is climbing due, in no small part, to aggressive promotion by the tobacco industry targeted to 18-24 year olds. Are you a student, faculty member, or staff of a local college? Sign a petition for a tobacco-free campus.
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A Salute to Tobacco-Free Leaders!
The Tobacco-Free Coalition, along withTobacco-Free Healthy Schools and Reality Check Youth Action, recently honored Capital District businesses, organizations, schools and other community partners who have taken significant steps to promote a healthy and tobacco-free community. Please join us in congratulating them.
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Don't be silent about smoking.
This is your greatest opportunity
to save lives.
TalkToYourPatients.org
BecomeAnEx.org
EX is a free plan that will help you stop smoking. It’s not about why to quit---it's all about HOW. Created by medical experts and tested by real smokers or, should we say, EX-smokers. Join. . .
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More and more area businesses, organizations, and local governments are saying "no thanks," to Big Tobacco. They've pledged to accept absolutely no donations, contributions, sponsorships. Nothing.