Five NHS students educate lawmakers in Albany on combatting tobacco
ALBANY – Five Norwich High School (NHS) Reality Check students made the trip to Albany on Tuesday, February 7, to educate lawmakers on the value of New York State Tobacco Control Programs (TCPs) and the ever-increasing support for tobacco-control policies at the local level.
“We've made great strides in combatting the tobacco epidemic,” said Rose Walsh, Norwich Reality Check Coordinator and Coordinator of Tobacco-Free Chenango. “But more work needs to be done to reduce the significantly higher smoking rates among disparate populations in our region and throughout the state.”
That's the message that NHS students and Reality Check youth Loretta Lockwood, Damian Lockwood, James Wayman, Morgan Burdick, and Steven King pitched to state lawmakers on Tuesday, accompanied by their Advisor Rhett Genung and Reality Check Coordinator Rose Walsh.
Senator Fred Akshar, Senator James Seward, and Assemblyman Clifford Crouch were in attendance for the presentation.
According to a release from the NHS Reality Check, TCPs have been proven to reduce youth smoking and help current smokers quit, thus saving lives as well as millions of state tax dollars.
Higher rates of smoking, however, persist among individuals with less than a high school education (22.4 percent), an income of less than 25,000 dollars a years (22.2 percent), and those with poor mental health (27.2 percent).
At this year's presentation, the students described the valuable work in progress in Cortland County to reduce smoking rates and to keep youth from starting smoking, which reportedly begins at 13 years old on average.
“The New York State Tobacco Control Program efforts are leading the way toward a tobacco-free society,” concluded the Reality Check students.
The Reality Check group visits the New York State Capitol annually to educate lawmakers about the successes of established TCPs and opportunities to further reduce the burden of tobacco addiction on New Yorkers.
The NYS Tobacco Control Program consists of a network of state-wide contractors who live and work in the communities they serve. These are dubbed Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities, which includes: Community Engagement and Reality Check programs; Health Systems for a Tobacco-Free New York and the NYS Smokers' Quitline.
For more information, visit TFreeZone.net.
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“We've made great strides in combatting the tobacco epidemic,” said Rose Walsh, Norwich Reality Check Coordinator and Coordinator of Tobacco-Free Chenango. “But more work needs to be done to reduce the significantly higher smoking rates among disparate populations in our region and throughout the state.”
That's the message that NHS students and Reality Check youth Loretta Lockwood, Damian Lockwood, James Wayman, Morgan Burdick, and Steven King pitched to state lawmakers on Tuesday, accompanied by their Advisor Rhett Genung and Reality Check Coordinator Rose Walsh.
Senator Fred Akshar, Senator James Seward, and Assemblyman Clifford Crouch were in attendance for the presentation.
According to a release from the NHS Reality Check, TCPs have been proven to reduce youth smoking and help current smokers quit, thus saving lives as well as millions of state tax dollars.
Higher rates of smoking, however, persist among individuals with less than a high school education (22.4 percent), an income of less than 25,000 dollars a years (22.2 percent), and those with poor mental health (27.2 percent).
At this year's presentation, the students described the valuable work in progress in Cortland County to reduce smoking rates and to keep youth from starting smoking, which reportedly begins at 13 years old on average.
“The New York State Tobacco Control Program efforts are leading the way toward a tobacco-free society,” concluded the Reality Check students.
The Reality Check group visits the New York State Capitol annually to educate lawmakers about the successes of established TCPs and opportunities to further reduce the burden of tobacco addiction on New Yorkers.
The NYS Tobacco Control Program consists of a network of state-wide contractors who live and work in the communities they serve. These are dubbed Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities, which includes: Community Engagement and Reality Check programs; Health Systems for a Tobacco-Free New York and the NYS Smokers' Quitline.
For more information, visit TFreeZone.net.
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