GetTobacco Ads

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What's on this page:

• GetMadAboutAds Campaign
• Retailer Actions
• Petition and Letter-Writing Campaigns
• Grocery Stores
• Pharmacies
• Local Government Resolutions

GetMadAboutAds campaign

Tobacco advertising increases the odds your child will smoke. GetMadAboutAds..
About the effects of retail advertising on young people.

Retailer Actions

CDTFC made a direct appeal to nearly 800 tobacco retailers in Albany, Schenectady and Rensselear counties to reduce, rearrange or eliminate their tobacco advertising as a way to prevent youth from using tobacco products. Check back soon to join us in thanking the area retailers who have made the decision to limit or remove tobacco advertising from their stores.

About the advantages of limiting or removing tobacco advertising from YOUR store.
To reduce, rearrange or eliminate tobacco advertising in YOUR store.

Petition & Letter-Writing Campaigns

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.

Join Our E-mail Action Team

Price Chopper Supermarkets Covers up Tobacco Displays
The efforts of Capital District grocery store customers and tobacco control specialists paid off! In spring of 2008, Price Chopper Supermarkets began covering up tobacco displays in their stores throughout the entire Northeast.

Across New York State, more than 5,000 adults signed postcards and petitions urging grocery stores to reduce, rearrange, or eliminate tobacco advertising. Many more sent email, wrote letters, and spoke directly to store managers.

Now, Price Chopper Supermarkets has taken the first step toward protecting children from the harmful effects of tobacco advertising by covering up the tobacco displays in all their stores. Here's a look at the "before" and the "after," a significant step from "eye candy" to a non-promotional, translucent case.

Say "Thanks" to Price Chopper
You can contact Price Chopper online or write a letter to the leaders of Price Chopper responsible for the change:

Neil Golub, President and CEO
Mona Golub, Vice President of Public Relations & Consumer Services
Price Chopper Supermarkets
501 Duanesburg Rd
Schenectady, NY 12306

Next time you're in your local Price Chopper, take a look at the tobacco display. If you like what you see, thank the store manager. Let him or her know that you notice and you care. If you'd like to see Price Chopper take the next step, don't be shy about encouraging them to consider ending the sale of tobacco products altogether.

Ending Tobacco Sales in Grocery Stores

There is a statwide grassroots effort underway to encourage grocery stores, including Hannaford Supermarkets, P&C Foods, and Quality Markets, to end all tobacco sales. Here in the Capital District, we are working especially hard to persuade Price Chopper, our local grocery industry leader, to stop selling cigarettes for three great reasons:

• Help smokers quit
• Keep kids from starting to smoke
• Improve public image

Sign a petition to end the sale of tobacco products in supermarkets. Find out more about what you can do.

Statewide Campaign to End Sale of Tobacco in Pharmacies

Pharmacies and tobacco don't mix. Find out why pharmacists themselves want to
end tobacco sales in pharmacies and what's happening in New York to make that happen.

Local Government Resolutions

THANK YOU. . .
to the ALBANY AND SCHENECTADY COUNTY LEGISLATURES for unanimous passage of Resolutions encouraging tobacco retailers to reduce or eliminate tobacco advertising in their stores.

• Albany County Resolution
• Schenectady County Resolution

Thank you, too, to the following municipalities for passing similar Resolutions.

• City of Cohoes Resolution
• Town of Glenville Resolution
• Town of Niskayuna Resolution
• Town of Sand Lake Resolution
• Town of Schaghticoke Resolution

Contact YOUR local legislators and encourage them to support a resolution to reduce or eliminate tobacco advertising in retail stores in your community. To help you find out who your county, town, village, or city legislators are, visit the New York State Local Government website.