Local News

• July 29, 2010, Gazette
  New effort aimed at getting smokers to quit
  
  
• July 29, 2010, The Record
  Smoking’s impact on health 'catastrophic'
  
  
• July 26, 2010, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Use tax money to help smokers quit
  
  
• July 17, 2010, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  As taxes rise, smoking declines
  
  
• July 11, 2010, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Tobacco ads should stop targeting teens
  
  
• July 1, 2010, Gazette
  Smokers stock up before tax hike
  
  
• July 1, 2010, Times Union
  Cigarettes at $10 light up emotions
  
  
• June 28, 2010, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Eliminate Outdoor Tobacco Ads
  
  
• June 25, 2010, Gazette Online Letter to the Editor
  Retailers should hide tobacco products to protect children
  
  
• June 7, 2010, The Record: Opinion
  

  John T. McDonald III: We need to educate the public about smoking
  
  

• June 1, 2010, Gazette Editorial
  What's next for smokers? Jail?
  
  
• May 27, 2010, The Record Letter to the Editor
  Good for Cohoes
  
  
• May 26, 2010, Gazette
  Schenectady City Council: Light up in park, pay up to city
  
  
• May 25, 2010, Times Union
  Common Council passes smoking legislation
  
  
• May20, 2010, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Hannaford might want to hide its cigarettes
  
  
• May 12, 2010, The Record
  Council votes against smoking ban
  
  
• May 12, 2010, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Smoke-free policy protects children
  
  
• May 12, 2010, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Stop enticing the next generation to smoke
  
  
• May 9, 2010, AP/printed in the Times Union & Gazette
  Anti-smoking fund cut, smoking rises
  
  
• May 7, 2010, Special to the Times Union
  Cohoes council to consider ban on smoking in parks
  
  
• May 6, 2010, Gazette
  Vacant structure plan in Glenville draws fire
  
  
• April 26, 2010, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Bravo for Schenectady parks’ tobacco ban
  
  
• April 24, 2010, Gazette online Letter to the Editor
  Eliminating tobacco advertising could save teens from an early death
  
  
• April 21, 2010, Gazette
  City's smoking ban to widen
  
  
• March 31, 2010, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Smoke-free RPI sets good policy
  
  
• March 27, 2010, Gazette online Letter to the Editor
  Taxing cancer-causing products is a win on all sides
  
  
• March 25, 2010, Times Union
  RPI wants to clear the air---of tobacco smoke
  
  
• March 25, 2010, Times Union
  Rules lost in a cloud of smoke
  
  
• March 20, 2010, The Record
  RPI to become tobacco-free campus
  
  
• February 7, 2010, Gazette
  Groceries should just stop selling cigarettes
  
  
• January 30, 2010, Gazette
  Price Chopper tobacco sales down as displays shrink, taxes grow
  
  
• January 26, 2010, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Tobacco control program is proving to be effective and fiscally sound
  
  
• January 12, 2010, Gazette
  Groups: Cuts hurt anti-smoking effort
  
  
• October 20, 2009, Inside Higher Ed
  Toward Tobacco-Free Campuses
  
  
• October 20, 2009, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Keep funding for tobacco control

• October 2, 2009, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  New tobacco laws protect children
  
  
• September 15, 2009, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Schenectady MHA should go smoke-free
  
  
• September 3, 2009, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Sch'dy MHA should ban smoking so vet, and all, can breathe
  
  
• June 30, 2009, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  New anti-smoking law will make a difference
  
  
• June 23, 2009, for The Record
  Guest Editorial: Tobacco rules will save money, lives
  
  
• June 15, 2009, Times Union
  Editorial: New rules, deadly business
  
  
• June 15, 2009, Gazette
  Editorial: Washington finally takes aim at Big Tobacco
  
  
• June 5, 2009, Times Union
  Higher taxes snuff smoking rate
  
  
• June 4, 2009, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Smokeless tobacco addictive
  
  
• May 29, 2009,Gazette online Letter to the Editor
  Tobacco ads should be kept hidden from minors
  
  
• May 2, 2009, Gazette online Letter to the Editor
  Tobacco products in pharmacies are sending mixed messages
  
  
• May 1, 2009, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Banning cigarette sales in pharmacies is eminently sensible
  
  
• May 1, 2009, Times Union Letter to the Editor
  Higher taxes, fewer smokers
  
  
• February 12, 2009, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Fire fatalities implicate smoking once again
  
  
• November 3, 2008, Gazette Letter to the Editor
  Cuts necessary, but not to anti-tobacco programs
  
  
• September 30, 2008, The Record
  State Health survey finds fewer NY teens smoking cigarettes
  
  
• June 27, 2008, Gazette
  Hundreds of teens speak against glamorizing smoking
  
  
• May 29, 2008, Gazette
  Maria College will be first smoke-free campus in region
  
  
• May 28, 2008, Gazette
  Board eyes ban on smoking in town spaces
  
  
• April 16, 2008, Gazette
  Pools, playground in Schenectady now smoke-free areas
  
  
• April 7, 2008, Gazette
  Shielding youths proposed
  
  
• April 3, 2008, Gazette
  Health chief urges grocers to stop selling cigarettes