Smokeout activities in Nyack, Peekskill
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- November
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High schools in Nyack and Peekskill will hold programs tomorrow as part of the American Cancer Society’s annual Great American Smokeout.
Students at both Nyack High and Peekskill High will learn about the effect smoking has on the body, ways to deal with peer pressure and marketing tactics tobacco companies use to targets teens.
The Nyack session will feature a local physician, Jared Wasserman, Danielle Heller of the American Cancer Society, Denise Hogan from POW’R Against Tobacco, and members of Reality Check.
The Peekskill session will feature physician George Pazos, Mekeda James from POW’R Against Tobacco and James Duffy from Reality Check.
Smoking rates in Westchester, Rockland and Putnam are already on the decline. With just 11.4 percent of adults smoking, Rockland has one of the lowest rates in the state. Read more about the efforts communities are making to stop smoking in a story I wrote in “The Journal News”:http://www.lohud.com/article/20081118/NEWS03/811180381/1027/NEWS11.
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