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Tobacco Fact
Evidence indicates that tobacco companies manipulate the nicotine level in cigarettes to hook smokers.



Dutchess/Ulster Tobacco Free Partners Recognition Dinner

Thursday, May 22, 2008
5:30pm at the
Poughkeepsie Grand Hotel
40 Civic Center Plaza, Poughkeepsie, NY

Join Us in Honoring those who have achieved outstanding efforts in tobaco control


Big Tobacco found Guilty of Racketeering

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They Travel in Packs.

They’re Predators.

They’re Very Shrewd.

You can help stop these killers!

Learn the 5 most common ways they hunt!

Tobacco companies spend billions each year to market and promote their addictive and deadly product.

Click here to see what you and others across New York State can do to combat the tobacco companies’ predatory ways and make a difference.



Get information on the NYS Clean Indoor Air Law.

Download the SFNY pamphlet “Understanding the Expanded Clean Indoor Air Act” as a PDF file.
Acrobat Reader required.


Download, print and display this I Love Smoke-Free NY Poster. It is available for printing from your computer. Click here to download the .pdf file, or click on the image.

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SmokeFree Dutchess is a community partnership with the American Cancer Society (ACS); the American Heart Association (AHA); the American Lung Association (ALA); the Dutchess County Department of Health; the Dutchess County Medical Society; Council on Addiction Prevention & Education of Dutchess County, Inc (CAPE); Vassar Brothers Medical Center; Saint Francis Hospital and Health Centers; community based organizations, physicians, businesses, schools, and Dutchess County residents.