Our Smoke-Free Sacramento project is working to educate the community on the issues surrounding commercial tobacco products and the impacts they have on our local environment. Our focus now is to keep our communities smoke-free, which includes parks, worksites, multi-unit housing, and empowering youth to join the fight against Big Tobacco. Tobacco product litter includes cigarette butts, discarded tobacco product […]
We’re very familiar, especially here at Breathe California Sacramento Region, with the dangers of smoking cigarettes. We know that cigarettes can cause disability, disease, and death, so much so, that 110 Californian’s die every day at the hands of the tobacco industry. From research in recent years, we also know that frequent exposure to tobacco on screens make youth three […]
Emilie T., a senior at Rio Americano High School (Rio), takes the lead in launching a food scraps and recycling initiative at her school. Emilie’s journey began during her junior year at Rio when she reached out to BREATHE, with a vision of introducing the food scraps program to her school as soon as she returned for her senior year. […]