Smoking Health and Action Coalition of Monroe County | Beyond the Nest (Rochester)

Smoking Health and Action Coalition of Monroe County

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1595 Elmwood Avenue
Rochester , NY , 14620
Phone: 585-484-1505
43° 7' 30.2304" N, 77° 35' 41.5572" W
Contact name: 
Ashley Gray
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One of 25 Advancing Tobacco-Free Communities contractors working to change the community environment to support New York State's tobacco-free norm through youth action and community engagement. Reality Check youth, age 13-18, engage communities in order to change norms about tobacco and strengthen tobacco-related policies that prevent and reduce tobacco use.

Efforts focus on reducing youth exposure to harmful tobacco marketing in retail settings, limiting exposure to secondhand smoke, and reducing smoking imagery through the media. Efforts are evidence-based, policy-driven, and cost effective approaches that decrease youth tobacco use, motivate adult smokers to quit, and eliminate exposure to second-hand smoke.  SHAC is part of the American Lung Association of the Northeast.  The New York State Department of Health, Bureau of Tobacco Control funds SHAC.