Reality Check Youth Action Program
Reality Check, a youth movement developed by the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program in 2000, is committed to exposing the manipulative and deceptive marketing practices of the tobacco industry. It is funded by the New York State Department of Health Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program.
Reality Check is for teens and is lead by teens with support from adults that provide youth with skills and strategies to alert their peers, community members and leaders recognize:
- Tobacco is the number one preventable cause of death and disease in the world;
- Tobacco companies continue to target teens and young adults as “replacement smokers;” and
- We all need to take action to get tobacco out of our communities.
Our state initiaves are:
Point of Sale
- Our goal is to decrease the social acceptability of tobacco use by reducing the impact of retail tobacco produce marketing on youth.
Smoke Free Media
- Our goal is to prevent initiation of tobacco use among youth and young adults by eliminating pro-tobacco imagery from youth-rated movies, TV, and the Internet.
Program staff for Reality Check CO2 is:
Elizabeth Toomey - Program Coordinator
Nicole Gibson - Program Assistant
Please see the Letter to the Editor on Syracuse.com, for Saturday, February 11, 2012, written by Prevention Network's Executive Director, Bradley Finn.
For more information on Reality Check, click here.
You can also visit us on Facebook, too.
Additional related links:
If Walls Could Talk Tobacco Free NYS Reality Check CNY