Kick Butts Day is March 20. Each year the tobacco-free day helps increase awareness about the problem of tobacco use. 1,200 people die every day in the United States because of tobacco. That is more than three Boeing 747 airplanes crashing every...

Reality Check, the youth action program of Advancing Tobacco Free Communities, is advocating to reduce smoking and tobacco imagery in movies. There is a nationwide movement to urge the U.S. film industry to rate new movies with smoking “R” to keep smoking...

New York State (NYS) Tobacco Control Partners and Reality Check youth visited Albany February 4 to talk with lawmakers about the success of their programs at lowering the NYS adult smoking rate to 14.2 percent as well as unmet needs in tobacco control. In...

Advancing Tobacco Free Communities-Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie Counties (ATFC-DOS) was a winner in Counter Tobacco’s recent 2018 Point-of-Sale Photo contest. ATFC-DOS had the winning photo in the Tobacco Look-a-Likes category entitled “Trick or Treat?...