The next meeting of Suffolk County Department of Health Services’ Community Mental Hygiene Planning & Advisory Board is scheduled for:

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported that the number of calls to poison control centers involving e-cigarette liquids rose from one per month in Sept 2010 to 215 per month in Feb 2014.  More than half of the calls involved children under age 5.

The next meeting of Suffolk County Department of Health Services’ Alcohol and Substance Abuse Subcommittee of the Community Mental Hygiene Advisory Board is scheduled for:

Thursday, Dec. 4, 2014

2:00 p.m.

North County Complex, Building C-928

725 Veterans Memorial Highway, Hauppauge, NY 11788

Class Room

Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2014, 10:30 a.m.

725 Veterans Memorial Highway (North County Complex), Building C-928,

Hauppauge, NY 11788

County Executive Steve Bellone and Health Commissioner James Tomarken, MD, MPH, MBA, MSW, encourage residents who smoke to join the American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout next Thursday, November 20, by quitting or making a plan to quit smoking.