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Santa Ana Takes Critical Step to Protect Youth, Public Health by Ending the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
... tobacco products, without exemptions. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) applauds the decision to prioritize the health of children and historically marginalized communities over Big Tobacco’s interests and bottom line. The following is a statement from ACS ... with limited incomes, communities of color and LGBTQ+ communities. Their tactics have addicted generations and have led to significant health disparities. For example, cancer, heart disease, strokes and diabetes are among the leading causes of death among Latinos, all of which can ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and made workplaces, including restaurants and bars, smoke-free. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re more determined than ever to ...
Santa Ana Takes Critical Step to Protect Youth, Public Health by Ending the Sale of Flavored Tobacco Products
... tobacco products, without exemptions. The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) applauds the decision to prioritize the health of children and historically marginalized communities over Big Tobacco’s interests and bottom line. The following is a statement from ACS ... with limited incomes, communities of color and LGBTQ+ communities. Their tactics have addicted generations and have led to significant health disparities. For example, cancer, heart disease, strokes and diabetes are among the leading causes of death among Latinos, all of which can ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and made workplaces, including restaurants and bars, smoke-free. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re more determined than ever to ...
Los Angeles Takes Critical Step to Help Reduce Health Disparities, Becomes the Nation’s Largest City to End Sale of Menthol Cigarettes
... patient advocacy organization, supports ending the sale of all flavored tobacco products as a critical step to reduce tobacco use and address health disparities. Statement from Dr. Willie Goffney, surgical oncologist and ACS CAN ambassador volunteer: "We thank the Los Angeles City Council ... By ending the sale of most flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes, Los Angeles has made a significant impact to prioritize the health of roughly 4 million residents and help decrease health disparities. "But we need to go further to protect Los Angeles children, Black, ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and made workplaces, including restaurants and bars, smoke-free. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re more determined than ever to ...
Cancer Advocates Release 2016 Legislative Scorecard
... legislative actions on the tobacco bills brought a halt to the tobacco industry’s lobbying influence that had blocked progress on key public health legislation for 20 years. The legislation, signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown in May 2016, will help prevent youth from a lifetime ... of cancer policy issues and holds lawmakers accountable for their voting record in the following cancer-related issue areas: Access to care Awareness and disparities Environment ... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ...
Save Lives California Files 2016 Cigarette Tax Initiative
... so many Californians,” said Laphonza Butler, President of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) California. “SEIU workers are health care professionals, home care workers and parents and family members who refuse to see another generation of Californians lured into the deadly ... Dental Association, Service Employees International Union and Blue Shield of California, among others. The National Survey on Drug Use and Health shows that ninety percent of smokers start as teens. In California, 21,000 kids get hooked on smoking every year, and half of them will die ...
Candidates in the 51st Assembly District Run-Off Say NO to Tobacco Contributions
... has spent more than $100 million in California in the last five years on campaign contributions and lobbying to prevent the passage of public health policies that help people stop smoking, reduce tobacco use and result in fewer cancer deaths. This is in addition to the industry spending ... raising the tobacco sales age to 21 and regulating e-cigarettes. The public has been loud and clear about the toll of tobacco use on public health,” said ACS CAN California Managing Director Jim Knox. “However, we have a lot more to do to protect Californians against second-hand smoke and the overall health care costs associated with tobacco, which averages more than $13 billion in California annually.” Another area of public health advocacy that Big ...
New ACS CAN projects in California aim to recruit volunteers, reduce tobacco exposure in Hispanic communities
... – Vecindarios Elevados” (Important Lives – Elevated Neighborhoods) in California is tackling over a five-year grant which will focus on health disparities in some Hispanic communities in Southern California. This project, along with another in Central California which will prohibit smoking at community colleges, trade schools and health care facilities, will not only educate members of the community and help keep people safe from secondhand smoke, it will help ACS CAN ...
Tobacco Users Trying to Quit Ahead of April 1 $2 Tax Increase
... Society Cancer Action Network 916 802-4033 [email protected] Tobacco Users Trying to Quit Ahead of April 1 $2 Tax Increase Health Groups Offer Resources for Californians Wanting to End the Addiction Sacramento, CA – March 31, 2017 – It’s no April Fool’s joke: ... every state that has significantly raised its cigarette tax, pack sales have decreased sharply. According to the US Surgeon General, the World Health Organization and the Institute of Medicine, raising the price of tobacco is the single most effective way to reduce tobacco use. “Today, ... and education program that has been credited with averting more than a million premature deaths and saving more than $138 billion in health care costs since its inception 28 years ago. Proposition 56 will more than triple this program’s funding, which has been eroding for decades and ...
Massachusetts Outshines California When It Comes to Protecting Kids from Tobacco Addiction; Gov. Baker Signs New Law, Making MA First State in the Nation to Prohibit Sale of All Flavored Tobacco Products
... products while Massachusetts becomes the leader in addressing the current youth e-cigarette epidemic, now one of the nation’s biggest public health threats. Today, Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker signed into law a bill that that will prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products in ... hope San Diego City and County will follow suit shortly after the first of the year. Our kids have been waiting far too long. ACS CAN has joined health organizations and community groups to form the L.A. Families Fighting Flavored Tobacco coalition. “Any flavored tobacco ordinances ... new year. Our kids’ futures are at stake and a whole new generation of tobacco users will trigger a heavy toll on our tobacco-related health care costs down the road if we don’t act soon.” 0 Massachusetts Outshines California When It Comes to Protecting Kids from Tobacco ...
California Cancer Advocates Renew Campaign to Get Big Tobacco Money Out of State Elections
... they are okay with a business model that makes a profit from killing Californians. ACS CAN is dedicated to reducing tobacco’s damaging public health effect and shining a light on attempts by the tobacco industry to influence lawmakers. So far, five candidates running for governor have ... money,” said ACS CAN Senior Government Relations Director Tim Gibbs. “ACS CAN is dedicated to reducing tobacco’s damaging effect on the health of Californians. Candidates and lawmakers up for reelection should be accountable to the public for health policy and reject tobacco ... cause of death. • 40,000 Californians die from smoking every year. • The annual health care costs in California directly caused by smoking are $13.29 billion. • Taxpayers pay $3.5 billion each year in the form of ...