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New Report Shows Majority of States Missing Opportunities to Reduce Toll of Cancer

WASHINGTON, D.C. Aug. 6, 2015 A majority of states are not measuring up on legislative solutions that prevent and fight cancer, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality rates states on the strength of proven policies that help to prevent a disease that kills more than 1,600 people a day nationwide and will cost the country an estimated $216 billion in health care costs this year alone. The report, which was released at the National Conference of State ...

600 Advocates Meet with Lawmakers at Annual ACS CAN Lobby Day

... 600 cancer patients, survivors, caretakers, volunteers and staff from across the country convened recently in Washington, DC for the annual ACS CAN Leadership Summit and Lobby Day. Constituents from all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam) and nearly every congressional district met with their lawmakers, urging Congress to support lifesaving policies ... asked their representatives to co-sponsor bipartisan legislation that would make palliative care more available to patients who need it. Remove cost barriers to colorectal cancer screenings . While the Affordable Care Act waives co-pays for screenings for colorectal cancer, Medicare ...

ACS CAN Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Ohio’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act and Calls for Ohio to Pass Strong Tobacco Control Policies

... Zimmerman American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Phone: (888) 227-6446 Ext. 8601 E-mail: [email protected]       ACS CAN Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Ohio’s Smoke-Free Workplace Act and Calls for Ohio to Pass Strong Tobacco Control Policies   Columbus, Ohio – December 7, 2016 – Today, ... “The burden of tobacco use in Ohio remains staggering. In 2014, 7,500 cancer deaths were directly attributable to tobacco use and the annual cost to our health care system is $5.64 billion, this all is preventable.” said Stephens. “Ohio lawmakers must respond to the 92 percent of ...

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 ...

Six-month Awareness Phase of Buena Park’s New Smoke-free Ordinance Begins

... enforced. In July, the Buena Park City Council unanimously passed the first comprehensive smoke-free policy in Orange County to prohibit the use of tobacco products, including e-cigarettes, in multi-unit residences and most outdoor spaces such as bus stops, entryways and public events. “Any exposure to secondhand smoke, even outdoors, can have adverse effects on people’s health,” said Lynda Barbour, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Southern California ... smoking, and the state’s annual health care costs directly caused by smoking surpass $15 billion. “Tobacco use and secondhand smoke exposure cost us dearly, with limited-income communities and people of color bearing the brunt of their harmful effects. We commend our partners at America ...

Majority of States Not Measuring Up on Laws to Fight Cancer

We know what needs to be done to save more lives from cancer, and many of those solutions are policy solutions. By encouraging prevention, guaranteeing access to affordable health care, curbing tobacco use and focusing on patientsŠ—' quality of life lawmakers can help fight cancer. These measures have been proven to dramatically reduce the burden of cancer, a disease that still kills 1,500 people in this ...

ACS CAN Wins Major State Ballot Initiatives Across the Country

Voters across the country last week approved important state ballot measures that will expand access to health care for hundreds of thousands of Americans and reduce the spread of tobacco products. Thanks to the hard work of ACS CAN and its volunteers, these new policies will help prevent and reduce the burden of cancer in our country. Where you live, shouldn’t determine ...

New Report Shows State Lawmakers Can Do More to Prevent, Reduce Cancer

... solutions to prevent and fight cancer, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality grades states on the strength of evidence-based policies that help to prevent cancer, which kills roughly 1,670 people a day nationwide, forces patients to pay nearly $4 billion in out-of-pocket expenses every year and in 2015 cost the country more than $80 billion in direct medical expenditures.  The report, an annual snapshot of key state policies, shows many states ...

ACS CAN Releases 13th Annual How Do You Measure Up Report

... would prevent cancer, reduce youth smoking, improve access to cancer care and significantly reduce health care costs. Those are the conclusions of ACS CAN's 13th annual How Do You Measure Up Report. The report, released at the recent National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting, is intended to provide state lawmakers with accurate, evidence-based information policy approaches that can ...

Metro Council Leaves Workers Unprotected with Deferment of Vote

... voted 8-2, with two members choosing not to vote, to defer the vote on the smoke-free ordinance to the meeting on August 9.  Seven members of the council introduced an ordinance to expand the state’s smoke-free law to include area bars and casinos.  “We thank those members of the Council who introduced the original ordinance and who supported the more than 3,000 workers who currently are not protected by a smoke-free ... for the Louisiana Campaign for Tobacco-Free Living (TFL).  “We are committed to protecting all workers in East Baton Rouge and will do all we can to make sure this ordinance goes into effect.  EBR will then join the ranks of New Orleans and other communities in our state.  I’m not ...

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