Albany park clean-up and chalk the walk
Reality Check members recently spent a Sunday afternoon picking up litter and “chalking the walk” at Swinburne Park in Albany. In one small area near the playground and soon-to-be-reopened splash pad, members cleaned up hundreds of cigarette butts along with other...
NYS Adult Smoking Rate Falls Below 10%
The prevalence of cigarette smoking among New York adults fell to 9.3%, marking the first time the rate has dropped below 10% since smoking rate surveillance began. The data comes from Cigarette Smoking New York State Adults, 2023, an updated reported recently...
Art for Earth’s Sake: Students Tackle Tobacco Waste Through Creativity
For the second year in a row, we’ve had the privilege of teaming up with the talented students of local high schools to spotlight an urgent issue that affects our communities and environment: tobacco waste. This year we expanded to other Capital Region schools...
Removing Tobacco Waste, One Butt at a Time
This Earth Day, our community came together to take action against one of the most littered items on the planet—tobacco waste. Cigarette butts may be small, but they’re toxic to our environment, often ending up in our waterways and harming wildlife. That’s why we organized a tobacco litter cleanup. In less than an hour, we managed to fill an entire container with cigarette butts and tobacco-related waste. That’s hundreds—if not thousands—of toxic items removed from our streets, parks, and natural spaces.
Earth Day Cleanup
Did you know that 4.5 trillion cigarette butts are discarded per year worldwide, making them one of the most littered items in the world? Or that 4.5 disposable vapes are discarded every second in the US? Please join us on Sunday April 27 at 2 pm at Beverwyck Park for...
To the left is a typical tobacco product display. If you don’t use tobacco, you may not even notice, but kids do. Kids see. Kids notice. Kids remember. In fact, kids are more than twice as likely as adults to notice and remember retail tobacco marketing.