Franklin County

Truth

2009-06-11T09:31:00.000-07:00

Believe it or believe it, smoking kills whether its second hand or direct. Its the truth!

Retail

2009-05-05T09:26:00.000-07:00

Reality Check members recently went out to the local retail stores around Chateaugay. I don't know if you have been noticing but there are ads in the windows which have been placed by tobacco brand Representative. We took initiative to make a note of these ads. I'm not going to name names, but did you know some of these stores are getting paid for these ridiculous ads. These ads are placed meticulously low in door windows so that younger children can notice these ads. Do you like the idea of children being exposed to these ads. There is a high percentage of children who are exposed to ads, that start smoking. they are enticed by these ads. these ads seem pretty cool the way television, magazines, and even celebrities make them seem. THEY ARE NOT COOL! HELP STOP IT WITH YOUR SUPPORT. LEARN THE FACTS. Educate yourself on what is really happening. Be Aware, and don't forget there is always information available right near you. if you are looking for more information talk to one of our reality check members. Stephen Bernier, Laura Stewart, Britt Drollette, Rachel LaTour, and Danny Wilcox. We will do everything we can to answer any questions you may have.

Magazine Adds!!!

2009-04-23T09:35:00.000-07:00

hey everyone!!!!!!

Have you noticed the new tobacco ads!!!??? The Spit less and smokeless ones!!! Inst that special?
Is school a place where children and teenagers can learn and grow in a safe and secure environment?

School libraries should not be an outlet for the tobacco industry to target youth. If you look they are out there. Me: i was looking through a magazine and happened to come upon a add for snus smokeless and spit less tobacco product. so as you can tell i already about this stuff and i was disgusted so i looked further into the add. ok i was reading and they were trying to tell me (the add) that this product is date-friendly? would you go out on a date with someone knowing they are using a tobacco product. just think of the smell when your sitting talking to them..idk about you but that grosses me out. not me: so do what you can and make anyone possable aware of the adds being in school libraries. and its true they are there and they do affect children a lot more than you think. it is a higher percentage for children to use tabacco products due to advertisement rather than no advertisement. be aware!!!!

RC TRAINING

2009-01-26T09:46:00.000-08:00

More on the Training, on the 25th we had a training at the YMCA for Franklin County, at this training we explored our policies, facts, point of purchase, and more. we started off the event with a ice breaker playing a game called autograph bingo, this is a game where there are random facts in the bingo spaces. like, who's addicted to txting. anyway, if someone was considered one of the spaces you get their autograph. and so-on ans so-on. so as you can see we play games like this sometimes, just so we can get to know each other a little better. more on the trainging, we then worked on our policies, wich are our like rules, is what you can call them. which we want the tobaaco companies to follow. we worked on this for a little while and discused what we thought and what we are really tring to do!!!!....more on this later.......

Whats the RC News

2009-01-15T09:34:00.000-08:00

This goes out to all you RC Members that may not know this, Mark this Date on your Calendar. Reality Check will be having a training on the 25th of January at the YMCA in Malone. Remember that your Letters to the editor on P.O.P should be finished by the 28th of January. Keep that in your mind!!!! If any RC Members would like to go to the dance that Brushton is putting on the 30th of January, just let Linda know, she will get us in!!! That's all for now, This is your latest edition of RC News!!!!

Be Aware!!!!!

2009-01-07T09:30:00.000-08:00

New Tabacco products that are being advertised to children!!!!

Be Aware Teens can hgide these harmful products in classes and many other public places!!!!!

The dissolvable products -- a pellet (Camel Orbs), a twisted stick the size of a toothpick (Camel Sticks) and a film strip for the tongue (Camel Strips) The products purportedly melt in the mouth within three to 15 minutes. RJR said the Strips melt fastest, the toothpick-like Sticks dissolve in about 10 minutes, and the pellet-size Orbs last the longest. The nicotine delivery of the products is said to be high: whereas a cigarette smoker typically takes in about 1 milligram of nicotine, the Camel Dissolvables are said to deliver about 0.6 to 3.1 mg of nicotine each. Reynolds plans to test the new products in Indianapolis; Columbus, Ohio; and Portland, Ore in 2009. The orbs and sticks products will have their debut in January and the strips in the second quarter

Anti Tabacco Commercial

2008-11-21T09:47:00.000-08:00

I Strongly AGree with the Sarcastically put commercial ITS THE TRUTH!!!!spread the word!!

this is very interesting, and i feel this should be out in the open how ridiulous tabacco companies are!!!!!!!

2008-11-21T09:44:00.000-08:00

Unfortunally our program Reality Check is facing some Budget Cuts soon to come we are really worried about our Life Saving program. If you would like to help contact me (Stephen Bernier)or write to ste.bernier@gmail.com for more information and what you can do to help......

Rick Stoddard

2008-11-21T09:43:00.000-08:00

This is an inspireing comercial. I believe everyone should see this once or even again if you saw it when rick stoddard came to our school. Tell me how you feel on this commercial and your views of this this story.

Its A Lcok-In

2008-11-09T16:05:00.000-08:00

Were gonna lock the doors. First at this event we started things off with WARM FUZZIES. This is where everyone has an envelope on the wall and you can leave notes for people. Its an interesting way to get to know people!! To Make things fun Parties Unlimited came and we played TV show games, at the end the winners of all the events(games) got to go into a blow-up toy, and where wind blew in it with $150 in it, try grabbing money like that? (Me and my partner won $36) it was lots of fun. Through out the two days we were involved in chants about our cause and how GREAT REALITY CHECK IS!!! We also talked about our future plans and what we want to do through the next year. More to come on this in future blogs.

Face The Facts

2008-11-06T17:35:00.001-08:00

Tabacco use is the number one preventable cause of dealth, Killing more than 400,000 People each year.

Tabacco companies spends $11.22 Billion each year to market and promote their addictive and deadly product.(trying to make us smoke)

That Means: During the hour you watch YouTube videos or listen to your Ipod, or watch tv, the tabacco industy spends over 12 million

The Tabacco Industry adds Ammonia to ciggarettes to make the Nicotine Reach Our Brains Faster making us crave it even more.

Thanks Big Tabacco.

R to the C

2008-11-06T09:33:00.001-08:00

November 1, 2008

2008-11-01T18:07:00.000-07:00

Reality Check Sponsered an event held at the YMCA in Malone, NY It was the anniversery for the YMCA. Today our cause was to have people sign our thank you cards for Price Chopper. Price Chopper has helped us because they took our first inititive in elliminating and reduceing advertising and making the viewing of tabacco products in store less obvious and easily viewed. Also here at this event the Radio Station 106.3 sponsered this event. They intereviewed Stephen Bernier (Me), Laura Stewart, Nate Marshall, and our cordinator Linda LaFave. They interviewed us on our causes and what reality actually is . We also wanted to publically thank Price Chopper for their help.

October 25, 2008

2008-11-01T17:54:00.000-07:00

Reality Check went down to Fright Fest at great escape in Lake George , NY. Where we spondered this event educating people on our main cause. We had people sign our petitions helping us emliminate smoking in G, PG, and PG-13 movies. We also handed out products to help promote Reality Check with its logo on it, shown at the top of the page. If there is any question please just leave a comment and i will try to get back to you as soon as possible.

So Whats Reality Check?

2008-11-01T17:31:00.000-07:00

Reality Check is a youth led organization ages 13-18 standing up for a cause.What Do We Do? We fight against the so called Big Tabacco companies targeting youth with manipulating tactics. They do this through We try to eliminate and reduce these advertisements to children of many ages.So Its Clear:Were not Against Smokers! Were against the industry that deliperately goes after us in their relentless effort to Addict us to Nicotine in order to replace their Dying Customers.