Where do “national (fill in the blank) months” come from?

Question by Kengem: Where do “national (fill in the blank) months” come from?
So September is national Prostate cancer awareness month, and national alcohol and drug addition recovery month. Who says?

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Answer by katjam234
Oh who knows?! These “awareness months” are associated with very worthy causes…worthy enough I suppose for someone in the White House to declare that an entire month of the year be devoted to educating people on the subject. (i.e. October is National Breast Cancer Awareness month….February is Black History month, etc. etc.) There are a lot of little things which have been declared to have their own month but few people know about it….i.e., I don’t know exactly which month it is, but there is a National Potato month and a National Adopt a Pet month, etc. etc.

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