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Letter to the Editor: ACS CAN Volunteer Ethel Ricci
... Warwick Beacon · Tuesday, December 5, 2017 To the Editor: As a volunteer with the American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) I learned at our last meeting that the tobacco industry is, finally, being forced to broadcast the harms of their products. They will be running ads on prime time, on major television networks telling the truth—their products are addictive and they ... in major newspapers across the United States. I have lost several family members to cancer caused by tobacco. Years ago, no one knew the dangers of tobacco. Tobacco products were advertised everywhere, on giant billboards, magazines and on television. If you smoked, you were cool. Women ...
Twenty Years of Broken Promises in the Fight Against Tobacco
... over time as compensation for the health costs related to the suffering, death and disease caused by their dangerous products. Each year, ACS CAN and public health partners track state spending of the settlement revenue, as well as other tobacco revenue states bring in from taxes, in the Broken Promises to Our Children report, and we continually find that states only spend a small fraction of their tobacco-generated revenue as intended -- on efforts to prevent youth tobacco use and to help people who smoke quit. ACS CAN, Campaign ...
Starting July 1, Tobacco Companies Must Post Signs About Health Risks of Smoking at About 220,000 Stores Across U.S.
Statement of the American Cancer Society, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for ... for kids to start smoking and harder for smokers to quit and that these companies have intentionally marketed to Black communities at enormous cost in health and lives. These companies are also fighting proposed graphic warnings on cigarette packs in the U.S. – a best-practice policy ... other steps, independent auditors will monitor compliance at the manufacturers’ expense, and a tip line will be established so that the public can report incidents of non-compliance. The corrective statements have previously been disseminated through newspaper and television ads and on ...
Huge Victory: Big Tobacco Companies Now Must Tell the Truth
... cigarette. Tobacco companies designed cigarettes to make them more addictive. There is no safe exposure to secondhand smoke. Thanks to the work of ACS CAN and others, we’ve been able to reduce tobacco use throughout the country. Our three-legged approach has included increasing taxes on ... with evidence-based programs and resources to help them quit. Despite major progress in reducing tobacco use, it is still the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. and kills more than 480,000 Americans every year. An epidemic created entirely by the companies who have lied to ...
Starting this Week, Tobacco Companies Must Run Court-Ordered Ads Telling the Truth about Their Lethal Products
Statement of the American Cancer Society, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, National African ... companies must run court-ordered newspaper and television advertisements that tell the American public the truth about the deadly consequences of smoking and secondhand smoke, as well as the companies’ intentional design of cigarettes to make them more addictive. The ads are the ... utilize the authority it received under a 2009 law to regulate all tobacco products. In particular, the FDA should take several actions that can make an enormous difference in reducing smoking and other tobacco use. It should implement its plan to limit nicotine in cigarettes to ...