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Jump to full article: Tri-City Voice Newspaper (Fremont, Union City, Newark, CA), 2010-02-03
Author: Submitted By Lilia Reynoso and Sergio Morales Photos By Bill Mancebo
Intro: Students involved in the Tennyson Health Center's Tobacco Youth Brigade (TYB) Program and their supporters held an informational picket in front of Rotten Robbie's gas station store at W Tennyson Road and Ruus Road, Hayward, at 3.30 p.m. on January 28. The Tennyson Health Center is a school-based health center run by Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center Inc.
TYB has worked assiduously to reduce the level of tobacco advertising targeted towards youth and has asked Rotten Robbie's to join the "Health Is Power" campaign. The owners have ignored efforts to contact them 3 times in the past 3 months, including a letter sent via certified mail to corporate office and numerous phone calls.
More than 70 percent of Rotten Robbie's window space is covered with advertisements; this is more than double the legal limit. There is tobacco advertising at four of the station's six gas pumps. The business has tobacco advertisements positioned below three feet high, right at child's-eye level. Tobacco advertising faces the Eden Youth Center whose visitors will see their advertisements at least once a day.
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