Reality Check

The tobacco industry doesn’t want you to know that smoking kills more people than AIDS, murder, drugs, suicide, alcohol and car crashes COMBINED!

Reality Check is: New York teenagers who want to expose the shady practices of the tobacco companies that go after us. No, we’re not against smokers, just the industry that tricks us into smoking.

What we think defines us as individuals, different from what society says is the “correct behavior”, has been insidiously SOLD TO US in subversive, well financed advertising, movies, video games and music videos. After all, teens are the tobacco giants’ next cash cow.

That’s right, by becoming addicted to smoking, and it is powerfully addicting, not a habit, BUT ADDICTING, we are their next source of profits and growth.

Want to learn more? Call or send an email to Lisa Spitzner, Orange County’s Reality Check Educator (845) 568-5246,
or visit realitycheckny.com.

REALITY CHECK has teamed up with the CLASSIC 10K to create TEAM REALITY CHECK. We are looking for interested teens to join us at the race and help get the message out! If you’d like to be part of the TEAM please visit the Reality Check Booth at the Health Expo on June 13th. We’ll have lots of great gifts to give to all who are part of TEAM REALITY CHECK.

TEAM REALITY CHECK shows its colors at the Rowley 5K starting line and around the Community Health Expo!