It's the same sign again; cigarettes are sold at Lowest Price Allowed By Law…

And when I look at this picture, I think,
wow, there's a sea of gas stations and cigarettes.

When the older kids come off the court, the younger kids will come on…
and they'll see the older kids lighting up, emulating the adults.

I know about the effects of nicotine…
and there are side effects that happen when you don't inhale nicotine once you're dependent on it.

So I think at first it becomes a habit, but then I know how hard it is to stop…

So the best way to address this issue is to not start at all.

I noticed right away that these cigarette ads were literally touching the ground, so the person most likely to see these… would be children…

I realized that a lot of things are placed down low, and I don't know if that's intentional or not, but it makes them eye level for younger people.

I think the media, today's media, they don't show smoking in such a popular light.

I remember in the past people would see superstars like Marilyn Monroe smoking and they would want to be like that…

But I don't really see that [now]…

Which is good.

People that smoke… don't say, "Okay, if I spend $70 for a carton of cigarettes…" They don't see 70 times 52 [weeks] equals whatever. Equals maybe a car…

They don't realize the cumulative financial effect of it. Because if you spend $70 for a carton, say you smoke a carton a week, that's $300 a month. That's definitely a car payment.

So if she wasn't smoking, she could have a car.

I was there when [Mayor Nutter] signed the executive order…

"Philadelphia recreation centers are 100% smoke free."

I think these signs are very powerful, just by having the picture of the cigarette, and then the 'forbidden' sign over it.

The question is: How do we make healthy eating more fun, more interesting, more — how do we sexify it?

Because frankly, unhealthy food [is] really appealing.

We haven't learned how to make [healthy] food, truthfully, super appealing to the average person.

Healthy food and access to healthy food is kind of perceived as something for…

people who are wealthy, people who don't look like me.

Not people of color, not people who are low-income, not people who live in inner cities.

I know [it] is unhealthy for you, and I rarely ever go there, but if I do go there, I enjoy my double cheeseburger plain. And all the grease that goes with it.

But this right here is on another level. Like so, so bad.

When I'm eating, [I feel like] I'm just eating death.

There's no breakfast…

The kids stop at the corner store, and they come out with this little black bag… And inside the black bag is something full of sugar and… something full of salt.

No kid should start their morning off with a ton of sugar and a ton of salt…

Around midday, crash and burn.

I look at how many people are drinking… all of these sports drinks.

The only people I know who need to drink [them] are people who ride in the Tour de France. Period. Water works fine.

This is a pile of hooey-dooey that we've been sold. It's not okay.

On the very corner of my block they just opened up a corner store.

And I was very disappointed because there's nothing of value in there.

You know, there are cigarettes, there's a bunch of junk, but there's no fresh fruit…

We don't need another store like that.

I think that [Philadelphia] is taking strides to become healthier.

I've been here all my life so I guess as I grow old, I start to pay more attention to certain things…

I feel energized, and I think the city has taken a lot of initiative now to be more healthy.