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MD General Assembly Session ends on April 12. Budget- Funding for Cancer and Tobacco Control Programs: ACS lobbied House members of the budget conference committee to accept the senate CRF Tobacco Control Program language in the Senate Budget Reconciliation Finance Act (BRFA), and the Senate members of the budget

Advocates were instrumental in persuading the Alabama state legislature to add $316,800 to the state's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program, after it had been cut entirely from the Governor's budget for the third year in a row.

In the 1950s, scientific studies by the American Cancer Society and others established a definitive link between tobacco use and cancer. After the US Surgeon General issued a report in 1964, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) promulgated the first regulations requiring cigarette packs to display warnings relating to health. With few changes, those warnings remain in place today.

Here are two activities you can do in April to keep you and your fellow advocates engaged in our campaigns: Read more about the just passed health care reform bills and how they will impact the fight against cancer.

Congress yesterday took its final historic votes to repair the broken health care system, approving a package of improvements that strengthen the broad reform bill that President Obama signed into law this week. I had the privilege of being in Washington, D.C. with Society

3-25-10 Maine Statehouse Update

Kentucky enacted legislation requiring insurers to cover the routine care costs of cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials. Thirty-two states and the District of Columbia now have such laws on the books or a voluntary agreement in place.

This month New Mexico and Utah became the first states to raise tobacco taxes in 2010. March 24, 2010 New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson signed into law a 75-cent per pack cigarette tax increase, putting the stateŠ—Ès tax at $1.66 per pack, the 18th highest in the nation. The