Onondaga County legislators voted 11-5 in favor of a proposal to raise the legal age to purchase tobacco products to 21. The bill will now go to public hearing. Tobacco 21 legislation is aimed at reducing youth access to tobacco products. Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, and data shows that the Read More »
In this edition of our bi-monthly newsletter, read about the new addition to the Clean Indoor Air Act, Lung Cancer Awareness Month, and the Great American Smokeout. You can also check out the amazing work our Reality Check Youth at Waterloo High School has been doing. Click the link below to learn more. http://mailchi.mp/6b2b624b61ea/9l36jze9m0-2490861 Read More »
NYS has banned vaping anywhere cigarettes are banned. Vaping among high school students in New York State doubled between 2014 and 2016 and, like cigarettes, e-cigarettes are aggressively marketed to make them as alluring as possible. E-cigarette liquid typically contains nicotine, and nicotine is highly addictive and harmful to adolescent and young adult developing brains. Read More »
This Friday (10/13/17) will be the first annual Seen Enough Tobacco Day. All across New York State, Reality Check Youth will be using this day to educate their communities about the dangers of tobacco use and the billions of dollars that the tobacco industry spends on marketing and product placement. In Seneca County, the Reality Read More »
Posted: Thursday, August 6, 2015 5:00 pm By DAVID L. SHAW dshaw@fltimes.com GENEVA — Effective April 1, smoking will be prohibited in the 228 housing units managed by the Geneva Housing Authority. The smoking ban is included in the 2015-16 agency plan approved July 28 by the authority’s Board of Commissioners. The plan goes into effect Oct. 1, Read More »
GENEVA -- It is official. The campaign by a group of Boys & Girls Club of Geneva members has succeeded in having all tobacco products banned from city parks. As a group of by the Boys & Girls Club crusaders looked on, the City Council voted unanimously to ban smoking in all city parks. There Read More »
Posted: Thursday, June 18, 2015 5:00 pm By JIM MILLER (jmiller@fltimes.com) LYONS — Despite objections from several of its members, the Wayne County Board of Supervisors voted Tuesday to ban tobacco and e-cigarette use on county property. Board Chairman James Hoffman said the three members who opposed the local law, Kenan Baldridge, David Spickerman and Read More »
Several students from Clyde Savannah Central School District in Wayne County, New York took part in a six-week introduction to the Reality Check program. The teens were introduced to the messages of Reality Check such as exposing the truth about tobacco marketing and striving towards a clean and healthy tobacco-free outdoors. The summer Reality Check Read More »
We are hosting a Smoke-Free Movie event with the SHAC of Livingston-Monroe Cos. next month! Please check it out and come to support our mission of reducing the tobacco imagery exposure with our youth population. ... See MoreSee Less
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