smoke free

Smoke Free NOW is funded by the NYS Department of Health Tobacco Control Program and is dedicated to reducing tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke in Genesee, Orleans, and Wyoming Counties. The coalition meetings are open to the public; anyone who supports our goals and objectives is welcome.

Smoke Free NOW works to promote policy changes about tobacco issues within local municipalities, businesses, organizations, events and venues.

Current initiatives include:

Policy: Asking Organizations, Businesses, Events, and Venues to not accept tobacco advertising, sponsorship, promotion or funding .

Organization Resolution: Asking Organizations, Businesses, Events and Venues to urge tobacco retailers to reduce, rearrange, or eliminate tobacco signs (research shows that kids exposed to advertising are more likely to start smoking).

Municipal Resolution: Asking municipalities to pass a resolution urging tobacco retailers to reduce, rearrange, or eliminate tobacco signs.

Smoke Free Apartments : Asking Landlord/Managers to establish a written policy that their apartments are smoke-free.

 Smoke free now also urges smokers to go to www.nysmokefree.com to get information about quitting smoking and to see if you are eligible for free NRT (nicotine replacement therapy; gum, patches, or lozenges)

For more information please go to our website www.smokefreenow.org   or www.exposebigtobacco.org

  NOTE: You must register to attend: 585-815-1871 or clewis@gcasa.org