{"id":89111,"date":"2018-03-09T09:27:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T14:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89111"},"modified":"2018-03-08T21:05:55","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T02:05:55","slug":"chittenango-middle-school-students-host-smoke-free-movie-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=89111","title":{"rendered":"Chittenango Middle School students host Smoke-Free Movie Event"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_89112\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-89112\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-89112\" src=\"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RC-movie-pic-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RC-movie-pic-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RC-movie-pic-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RC-movie-pic-900x675.jpg 900w, https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RC-movie-pic-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-89112\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pictured from left are Josie Visalli, Elizabeth Kimball, Alazayah Smith, Jessica Ramsey, Anani LaFountaine, Bailey Foster, Amelie Rohlin and Keagan Terry.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Chittenango Middle School students host Smoke-Free Movie Event<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On Thursday, March 8, Chittenango Middle School students hosted a SmSmoke-Freeovie Event at their school, hoping to raise awareness about the way the tobacco industry markets their products. The seventh- and eighth-grade students have been planning this event since January.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSince it is International Week of Action, we are showing a movie and having students sign a letter to send to the Motion Picture Association of America,&#8221; said Bailey Foster, a Reality Check member at Chittenango Middle School. &#8220;We want students to realize it is important to continue to keep tobacco out of movies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The students decided to show Moana, a movie put out by Disney. Disney has decided that all of their youth-rated films will have no smoking. Because of this, the students had a table set up so people could sign a\u00a0letter to the Motion Picture Association of America, asking them to consider this kind of policy for all studios.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The letters will be cc\u2019d to all movie studio parent companies.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Smoking in movies normalizes and glamorizes tobacco use and these students are working to change the social norms surrounding tobacco and show the truth about a tobacco habit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">To learn how you can help, you can visit \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.realitycheckofny.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/www.realitycheckofny.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1520644630386000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEYmiwFArJx_WbbaKrnx1XGEiHCeA\">www.realitycheckofny.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chittenango Middle School students host Smoke-Free Movie Event On Thursday, March 8, Chittenango Middle School students hosted a SmSmoke-Freeovie Event at their school, hoping to raise awareness about the way the tobacco industry markets their products. The seventh- and eighth-grade students have been planning this event since January. \u201cSince it is International Week of Action, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23813,23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}