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Public Health Groups Laud Proposed $1.50 Increase in Tobacco Tax To Protect Kids, Save Lives and Raise Needed Revenue

... on other tobacco products such as smokeless tobacco.” Health organizations including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free strongly support the $1.50 per pack tobacco tax increase designed to keep cigarettes and a vast array of other tobacco products out of the hands of kids, while also lowering health costs from tobacco use and restoring critically important tobacco prevention and education ...

Florida Legislature Failing to Enact Proven Cancer-Fighting Policies

... evidence-based policies designed to fight cancer, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Florida earned a “green” rating in only one of nine categories examined in the annual How Do You Measure Up? report. Only two states achieved fewer positive ratings. Recognizing that 135,170 ... from the disease, implementing the nine evidenced-based public health policies detailed in the report would curb the human and financial toll of cancer in the state. These policies are designed to tackle tobacco use, encourage healthy behaviors and improve access to health screenings and ...

World No Tobacco Day: Reducing the Global Tobacco Burden

... policies that we know will help prevent kids from ever starting to smoke and help current adult smokers quit. To mark World No Tobacco Day, ACS CAN is releasing a new report, Protecting Children and Reducing the Global Tobacco Burden: Trading Tobacco Company Protection for Public Health . ... an action Congress can take right now to save lives and protect kids from tobacco around the world. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States and around the world. More than two thirds of tobacco deaths occur in low- and middle-income ... for 870,000 deaths annually in the TPP countries. Tobacco use will kill one billion by the end of this century. Tobacco use will continue to cost the world $1 trillion annually in increased health care spending and lost worker productivity.  We know what works to prevent kids from ...

Maryland State Budget Produces Mixed Results in Fight against Cancer

Maryland state lawmakers have released details on the agreed upon 2025-26 budget—the contents of which are a mixed bag in the fight against cancer. While the state made sound investments in cancer research and protected Medicaid recipients’ ability to access biomarker testing, it missed an opportunity to save the lives and lungs of Maryland’s youth by cutting funding for the state’s tobacco prevention and cessation programs. To mark both the victories and missed opportunities, Lance Kilpatrick, government relations director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) in Maryland, responded with the following statement: “With looming threats to cancer research funding in D.C. and so many lives hanging in ...

House Introduces Health Equity Bill Critical to Reducing Health Disparities and Fighting Chronic Disease

Washington, D.C. --  Legislation introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives today aims to improve access to quality health care for and decrease health disparities in communities of color. The Health Equity and Accountability Act (HEAA) of 2022 provides a comprehensive set of strategic policy solutions designed to eliminate ... and unjust imbalance that left many limited-income individuals in the territories without access to lifesaving medical care. A priority for ACS CAN, the bill also includes provision from the Diversifying Investigations Via Equitable Research Studies for Everyone (DIVERSE) Trials Act, which ...

Cancer Survivors, Patients, Caregivers Convene at State Capitol for Lawmaker Meetings

... at the State Capitol Thursday for ‘Cancer Action Day,’ an event hosted annually by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Donning bright blue shirts, volunteers met with several state lawmakers and urged them to support policies that would aid in the fight ... a long way and that’s why it’s important to continue the surveillance. I’m here today to ask Arizona lawmakers to help us achieve our goal of giving more women access to early detection.”  Volunteers also asked lawmakers to support several other policies including SB 1164 which, if ... health insurers from making changes to prescription drug formularies during the plan year, including removing drugs from coverage or increasing cost sharing. Survivors and patients urged legislators to reduce the toll tobacco is having on Arizonans, as well by supporting and enacting ...

American Cancer Society Applauds D.C. Council's Vote to Double the Cigarette Tax

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- May 14, 2008 -- The District of Columbia Council has joined the growing number of states that are increasing their tobacco taxes as a way to discourage children and adults from smoking by doubling the District’s cigarette ... increase in the price of cigarettes reduces youth smoking by 7 percent and overall cigarette consumption by about 4 percent. The District can expect the $1 cigarette tax increase to prevent some 4,100 DC kids alive today from smoking; spur 3,100 DC smokers to quit for good: save 2,100 ...

Ads Call on Congress to Put Children Before Big Tobacco and Support Cancer Research

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- August 13, 2007 -- In an effort to urge Congress to put children’s health ahead of the tobacco industry’s bottom line, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action NetworkSM (ACS CAN) this week is sponsoring ads across the country asking Congress to grant the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. ACS CAN, the sister advocacy organization of the American Cancer Society, is sponsoring print advertising on FDA regulation of tobacco in seven targeted states during the August recess. The ...

Rhode Island Getting Mixed Reviews on Cancer Fighting Public Policies

... it comes to supporting policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, Rhode Island measured up to policy recommendations in just six of the ten issue areas ranked. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). "We've made tremendous progress in the way we diagnose and treat cancer across the country. But to leverage this progress, Rhode Island ...

New FDA Anti-Tobacco Education Campaign Launches on World Cancer Day

... make our voices heard as we raise awareness about the need to make the fight to defeat cancer an international priority. Continuing the success of last year's campaign , the theme of this year's World Cancer Day is once again dispelling myths and misconceptions related to cancer. Therefore, ... according to the FDA, 10 million youth ages 12-17 are open to smoking or have already experimented with it. Beginning Feb. 11, the FDA's Real Cost campaign is designed to target these 10 million at-risk youth and educate them about the dangers of tobacco use and to encourage them to be ... the most effective ways to fight back against an unscrupulous and unrelenting industry whose mission is to hook youth as early as possible. ACS CAN fought hard for the FDA's authority to regulate tobacco products, and we're pleased to see that the agency is exercising that authority for ...

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