November 2021 Newsletter
In November's newsletter, Tobacco Free Communities | Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie (TFC-DOS) introduces new Reality Check Youth Vicky Poon, highlights work Poon has done for Seen Enough Tobacco Day which happens every year on October 13th, and bids farewell to...
September 2021 Newsletter
In September's newsletter, one of Tobacco Free Communities | Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie's (TFC-DOS) staff members speaks on his former addiction to e-cigarettes, an article with new youth smoking rates is highlighted in a StatShot with the latest data from 2020,...
August 2021 Newsletter
In August’s newsletter, Tobacco Free Communities | Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie (TFC-DOS) announces the availability of new StatShots from the New York State Department of Health on 2018 adulting smoking rates, which shows a decrease in smoking rates in two of...
July 2021 Newsletter
In July’s newsletter, Tobacco Free Communities | Delaware, Otsego & Schoharie (TFC-DOS) talks about Oneonta's Meet Me on Main Street event that Community Engagement Coordinator Jennifer Hill and Youth Engagement Coordinator Christopher Bradley tabled at to engage...
TOBACCO FREE COMMUNITIES:
DELAWARE, OTSEGO AND SCHOHARIE COUNTIES
Tobacco Free Communities – Delaware, Otsego and Schoharie Counties (TFC-DOS) is one of 21 contractors working to change the community environment to support New York State’s tobacco-free norm through youth action (Reality Check) and community engagement. The NYS Department of Health’s Bureau of Tobacco Control provides grant funds to St. Peter’s Health Partners in Albany for TFC-DOS.
TFC-DOS educates the community and decision makers, mobilizes community members around the problems that tobacco addiction causes in local communities, and helps decision makers understand the types of choices that they have to address these problems. Efforts are evidence-based, policy-driven and cost effective approaches that decrease youth tobacco use, motivate adult smokers to quit and eliminate exposure to secondhand smoke.
