Tobacco Free Zone

Tompkins County’s Newest Welcome Sign
  • Direct Mail Campaign
  • |
  • FAQ for T-Free Zone
  • |
  • Tobacco advertising
    		•

     A Tobacco Free (T-Free) Zone is a posted outdoor area that is intended to be free of smoking and tobacco smoke, free of activity associated with using smokeless tobacco, and free of advertisements and promotional displays for tobacco products.

    “Free of smoking and tobacco smoke...”
    More than ever, individuals are seeking to avoid exposure to tobacco smoke because of its known health hazards. Posting building entrances and other public areas where people linger — picnic or outdoor seating areas, storefronts or shop windows, outdoor waiting areas, viewing stands or bleachers — as a T-Free Zone provides a welcoming assurance for adults that a small step has been taken to minimize the likelihood that they, their children and their pets will encounter tobacco smoke.
     

    “Free of activities associated with smokeless tobacco; free of advertisements and promotional displays...”
    Children, teens and young adults are easily influenced by advertising and by what they observe. Every day, thousands of kids try tobacco for the first time. Nearly half become regular tobacco users.* T-Free Zones provide a welcoming assurance for parents that a small step has been taken to minimize youth encounters with these influences.

     

    The T-Free Zone campaign will kick off in July 2006.
      • Read about the upcoming direct mail campaign
      • Read Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) about the T-Free Zone
      • Make sure you get stickers and prize information when available. Use our comments form to send your request.

    *Ninety percent of current smokers started before age 18. Everyday over 4,000 kids nationwide try cigarettes for the first time and 2,000 kids become regular smokers according to the Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids. About one third of all youth smokers will die prematurely from smoking-related disease.
    — Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids Research Center Fact Sheet #0001
    Additional TFK Fact Sheets: Fact Sheets > Tobacco and Kids > Smoking and Kids

    Statewide, among those adults who smoke everyday, 58 percent have tried to quit. Go to source of data (CDC.)