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Utah Cancer Summit: Utah's Tobacco Burden and Potential Policy Solutions

... Burden and Potential Policy Solutions.    Tobacco use remains the number one cause of preventable death in Utah. $542 million in annual health care costs in Utah can be attributed to smoking. Join us to hear about the impact that tobacco use has on our state, the latest data showing ... Intermountain Healthcare 9:30am-9:45am Tobacco Use in Utah, Braden Ainsworth, Tobacco Prenvention and Control Program, Utah Department of Health 9:45am-10:30am Panel Discussion, Steve Hanson, Salt Lake County Health Department, Joyce Ah You, The Queen Center, Jordan Osborne, ACS CAN ...

New Legislation Will Ensure Medicaid Enrollees Have Access to All FDA-Approved Cessation Services

... passed last year, state Medicaid programs were only required to provide cessation services to pregnant women, a requirement under the Affordable Care Act. This new law would ensure Medicaid enrollees trying to quit tobacco have all evidence-based resources available to them to increase their ... Tobacco cessation services are a key component in a comprehensive strategy to reduce death and disease from tobacco use and their associated health care costs. ACS CAN has long advocated at the state and federal level to include coverage for all FDA-approved cessation services within state Medicaid plans. Medicaid enrollees smoke at more than twice the rate of adults on private health insurance. Ensuring they have access to all FDA-approved cessation services will save lives. “In the midst of a pandemic that attacks ...

Sen. Takubo Proposes Real Solutions to Protect Kids and Save Lives

... on this critical issue and looks forward to working with the rest of the legislature and the governor to protect kids, save lives and reduce health care costs by significantly increasing tobacco taxes and investing in tobacco control programs in West Virginia.”   ### About ACS CAN The ... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We’re more determined than ever to stand together with our volunteers to end cancer as ...

Tennessee Should Make It Easier to Quit Tobacco

... $13 million in funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, which are proven to work . Smoking already leads to $3.1 billion in annual health care costs in Tennessee. These programs are the most effective ways to prevent kids from starting to use tobacco and help adults quit, thus ... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We stand with our volunteers, working to make cancer a top priority for policymakers in ...

NJ ranks among nation's worst in anti-smoking efforts

... quit smoking. "New Jersey will pay a high price with more children and teenagers smoking, more lives lost to tobacco and higher smoke-related health care costs, said Blair Horner, Vice President for Advocacy, American Cancer Society of NY & NJ.  "By failing to meet the CDC's expert ... year more than 11,000 New Jerseyans will die from smoking-related diseases. In addition tobacco use costs the state an estimated $3.2 billion in health care bills.     NJ ranks among nation's worst in anti-smoking efforts ...

Governor Hochul Sets Sights on a Tobacco-free Generation

... taxes and ending the sale of menthol cigarettes and all other flavored tobacco products will reduce the tobacco burden, improving public health, limiting health care costs and generating revenue in New York. With approximately 12.8% of New York adults still smoking and 22,290 New Yorkers projected to die ...

Fact Sheet: Cigarette Tax Evasion

... lives. Ending untaxed sales from reservations will encourage at least 100,000 adult smokers to quit, saving 25,000 lives 1 Tobacco’s Impact on Health and Health Care Costs Adult Smoking Rate, New York – 18% (2009 Behavioral Risk Factor Survey) Number of Adult Smokers, New York – 2.6 million Deaths ...

North Dakota Voters Reject Tobacco Tax Increase

... as a result kids and veterans become the losers.  Taxpayers pay a price as well.  Measure 4 would have saved nearly $250 million annually in health care costs and generated an estimated $147 million per biennium in new revenue.  An estimated 1,000 North Dakotans die each year from ... e-cigarettes.  Raising tobacco taxes is a proven way to prevent kids from ever starting, encourage current tobacco users to quit, and reduce health care costs. North Dakota's tobacco tax has not been raised since 1993.  At just 44 cents per pack of cigarettes, it is ranked 47th in the ...

New Report Highlights Lifesaving Community Programs Funded by Prevention Fund

... to save lives by preventing serious chronic diseases such as cancer. The report, Staying Well: Real Stories from the Prevention and Public Health Fund , profiles lifesaving programs in 17 states and communities that benefit from the Prevention and Public Health Fund, created by Congress in 2010 as part of the Affordable Care Act. In the two years since then, the Prevention Fund has funded evidence-based programs that are increasing access to proven disease ...

Tobacco Companies Must Finally Tell Public the Truth about Their Lethal Products – 11 Years After a Court Ordered It

... Americans for Nonsmokers’ Rights, National African American Tobacco Prevention Network and the Tobacco-Free Kids Action Fund (public health intervenors in the case) WASHINGTON, D.C. – October 4, 2017 – More than 11 years after a federal court first ordered them to do so, the ... an agreement filed by the parties late Monday. Facing a court deadline, the U.S. Department of Justice, the tobacco companies and our six public health organizations filed the agreement setting forth details for implementing the television and newspaper advertisements ordered by the court. ... of preventable death and disease in the United States, killing more than 480,000 Americans and costing the nation about $170 billion in health care expenses each year. Tobacco companies bear direct responsibility for their products’ ongoing toll on the health of Americans. As Judge ...

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