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Today marks the start of CounterTobacco’s 6th annual Photo Contest!  The tobacco industry spends nearly $1 million every hour to market their deadly products. The Surgeon General has concluded that exposure to this retail marketing encourages smoking and undermines quit attempts. And it’s happening in YOUR community. Each year, you help capture the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics at the point-of-sale, and … Read More

CounterTobacco.org is close to reaching our 50,000th visitor on the site, and we want to celebrate this milestone by thanking all of our users – the practitioners who are out there working to counteract tobacco sales and marketing at the point of sale, fighting the “War in the Store,” raising awareness about the problem, and … Read More

Can’t get enough of great photo contests that expose the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics at the point of sale? Check out these two regional contests going on now! Californians! Have you heard about Tobacco Free CA ‘s “Tobacco’s Impact in My Community Photo Contest”?   It’s going on now through November 1st (and pssst – there are cash prizes). … Read More

Congratulations to our winners in Counter Tobacco’s fourth annual photo contest, and a big THANK YOU to all participants!  The image above is our Grand Prize winner, taken by Nicole S. in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. We asked our audience to submit photos showcasing tobacco industry marketing tactics and promotional strategies at the point of sale (POS), and we received over … Read More

Today marks the start of CounterTobacco’s 4th annual Photo Contest!  The tobacco industry spends $1 million every hour to market their deadly products. The Surgeon General has concluded that exposure to this retail marketing encourages smoking and undermines quit attempts. And it’s happening in YOUR community. Each year, you help capture the tobacco industry’s marketing tactics at the point-of-sale, and … Read More