PPAC CentralCategory: Blog Posts
Beware of Tobacco Companies’ Candy-flavored Tricks
‘Companies are making these products look and smell sweet like candy.’ As Halloween approaches, Tobacco-Free Chautauqua, Cattaraugus and Allegany (TF-CCA) is calling out the tobacco industry’s continued use of candy flavors and packaging to lure kids to addiction. E-cigarettes, nicotine…
Read MoreFall Pill Drop
This past Saturday, October 25 the Allegany Council on Alcoholism and Substance Abuse, Inc. (ACASA), the Allegany County Sheriff’s Office, Alfred Station Fire Company and Belfast Fire and Rescue Department, and Partners for Prevention in Allegany County (PPAC) held their…
Read MoreNational Domestic Violence Awareness Month
For many, October 1st signifies the first day that it is acceptable to decorate for Halloween, drink pumpkin spice lattes, and enjoy the cool sweater weather of fall. However, for agencies like Connecting Communities Action and ACCORD, October 1st signifies…
Read MoreSeen Enough Tobacco Day
The statement “youth have seen enough tobacco” is the slogan for Seen Enough Tobacco Day, an annual day of action held on October 13 in New York and led by youth members of Reality Check. It highlights the billions of…
Read MoreBe a Family Day STAR!
Monday, September 22nd, marks the 25th Anniversary of Family Day: Making Every Day Special, founded in 2001 by the Center on Addiction. Research by the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University has consistently found that…
Read MoreAugust 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day
August 31 is recognized as International Overdose Awareness Day (IOAD) the world’s largest annual campaign to end overdose, remember those we have lost to an overdose, acknowledge the grief of the family and friends left behind, and renew our commitment…
Read MoreAugust is National Wellness Month: A Great Time to Try Quitting Tobacco Products
Happy August! It’s the perfect time to soak up summer sun, go on picnics and enjoy vacations. It’s also National Wellness Month, a perfect time to address tobacco use and making a dedicated effort to quit. Tobacco use remains the…
Read MoreTake the Lead on Lead: Safeguarding Your Family’s Health
The Allegany County Department of Health would like to remind any residents doing home renovations that there are ways to keep lead dust to a minimum. Allegany County has many older housing units and those that were built before 1978…
Read MoreWelcome to Plastic-Free July: A Time to Consider the Plastic Pollution Caused By Cigarette Butts and Tobacco Litter
While plastic bottles are often the first topic to come up when discussing plastic pollution, the most abundant type of plastic litter in the world is cigarette butts. They are the single largest form of litter by count, and despite…
Read MoreFillmore Reality Check Youth Speak Out against Big Tobacco
Washington, DC – As Altria Group Inc. shareholders held their annual virtual meeting on May 15, approximately 50 youth advocates, including William Washburn and Grant Smolen, students at Fillmore Central School, held a first amendment assembly encouraging the public “Don’t…
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