Tobacco Free Gallatin - Media literacy skills can help youth and adults: - Develop critical thinking skills.- Understand how media messages shape our culture and society.- Identify target marketing strategies.- Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do. - Name the techniques of persuasion used. - Recognize bias, spin, misinformation, and lies. - Discover the parts of the story that are not being told. - Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, skills, beliefs, and values. - Create and distribute our own media messages.- Advocate for a changed media system.

Gallatin County Tobacco Use Prevention

Ending the tobacco epidemic requires a renewed effort by all of us to change the social norm around tobacco use and reinvigorate a national discussion on tobacco use prevention and control efforts.

Media literacy skills can help youth and adults:

- Develop critical thinking skills.
- Understand how media messages shape our culture and society.
- Identify target marketing strategies.
- Recognize what the media maker wants us to believe or do.
- Name the techniques of persuasion used.
- Recognize bias, spin, misinformation, and lies.
- Discover the parts of the story that are not being told.
- Evaluate media messages based on our own experiences, skills, beliefs, and values.
- Create and distribute our own media messages.
- Advocate for a changed media system.

Gallatin County Tobacco Use Prevention Program

404 West Main

Bozeman, Montana 59715