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to Rural 3 for Tobacco Free Communities website! Rural 3 for Tobacco Free Communities is community partnership representing Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie Counties.

We launched are new media campaign.  Click on the image below to take action to protect youth from in-store tobacco marketing.

Every year 24,000 youth begin smoking in New York State alone, and exposure to tobacco marketing in stores is a primary cause of youth smoking.  Tobacco marketing in stores should be covered and out of sight.

Studies show that kids are twice as likely as adults to notice and remember retail tobacco advertising. And, since the tobacco industry spends millions of dollars a day to market its deadly products in stores where teens shop, our kids are exposed to high levels of tobacco marketing everyday.

Please join us. Click on the link to sign our petition and take a stand to protect our kids from tobacco marketing in stores!  http://www.tobaccofreenys.org/Protecting-Kids-From-Tobacco-Marketing-Petition.html

Rural Three is dedicated to educating community leaders and the public about the dangers and social cost of tobacco through engaging local businesses and organizations to adopt policies and resolutions that restricts the tobacco industry presence through, de-normalizes tobacco use, and eliminates secondhand smoke.
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