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LI’s Reality Check Youth #TakeDownTobacco
Show Big Tobacco we will not be fooled any longer. Join Realty Check Youth on April 1st to raise awareness about the dangers of tobacco.
April 1st is Taking Down Tobacco Day, a national day of action that empowers people to stand up and speak out against the tobacco industry. Tobacco Action Coalition of LI is raising awareness about tobacco and the harm it does to our families and communities.
Tobacco is the number one cause of preventable death in the U.S. The tobacco industry has a long history of peddling its deadly products that addict, sicken and kill 480,000 people in the U.S. every year. Each day, more than 2,500 kids under the age of 18 try smoking for the first time, and more than 400 kids become new, regular, daily smokers. In fact, the average age of a new smoker is just 13 years old!
The tobacco industry uses youth-oriented marketing to make tobacco products seem cool, including brightly colored packaging to make it seem fun and sweet flavors to entice and make them seem harmless. They do this to hook a new generation to tobacco and line their pockets with profits.
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The Tobacco Action Coalition of LI’s youth empowerment group, Reality Check LI, will be joining youth across the nation on April 1, 2020 to help #TakeDownTobacco. Through impactful chalk messaging on walkways a contactless “Chalk the Walk” event will take place at their homes as well as other identified areas. Reality Check and other community Youth will write a message raising awareness in their prospective communities about the dangers of tobacco and the tobacco industry’s predatory ways. The public is also encouraged to participate by posting to social media networks “I #TakeDownTobacco because...”
Join us on 1 April to show Big Tobacco we will not be fooled any longer! Visit Reality Check of NY to learn more.
Find out what's happening in Brentwood-Central Islipwith free, real-time updates from Patch.
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The Tobacco Action Coalition of LI is one of 21Advancing Tobacco Free Communities’ grants funded by the NYS DOH’s Bureau of Tobacco Control and administered by the American Lung Association. Our grant is comprised of a community engagement and youth action component, Reality Check, who work collaboratively to promote environments open to creating a tobacco-free norm as well as educating and empowering our youth to become change agents within their communities.
