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Public Health Organizations: Legislature’s Final Budget A Missed Opportunity To Reduce Smoking, Save Lives
Frankfort, KY – April 2, 2018 – The following statement can be attributed to four leading health advocacy organizations: American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the ... increase the cigarette tax by just 50-cents per pack, an amount that will have little to no impact in reducing smoking and improving public health. Small increases such as this are easily offset by tobacco industry price discounting and coupons intended to perpetuate tobacco-related ... that will essentially nullify the 50-cent increase. “Increasing the cigarette tax by a $1-per-pack would have saved lives, reduced health care costs and raised even more revenue. It would’ve helped 29,400 adult smokers quit and would’ve kept 23,200 kids from becoming smokers. ...
2018 Kentucky Legislative Roundup
... funding will be allocated appropriately. Improve Patient Quality of Life – Support Access to Patient-Centered and Family-Focused Palliative Care After passing unanimously on the Senate Floor, and then unanimously through the House Health & Family Services Committee, SB 149 died without a House vote. Our bill sat on the House agenda until the very last day of session, but ... package including a 50-cent increase on the cigarette tax. This was a major missed opportunity in Kentucky. 50 cents will NOT have a public health benefit; it will simply be a tax. The tobacco industry is incredibly successful in negating any potential smoking prevention from a 50 ...
New Report: Failure by Southern State Legislators on Tobacco Policies Leads to Higher Tobacco Use, Greater Cancer Burden
... of cigarette smoking, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). Given this, the state’s biggest opportunity to save lives and reduce health care costs would be increasing the price of cigarettes by $1.50 or more per pack. “Kentucky’s excise tax on cigarettes hasn’t been ... increase to the tobacco tax would not only lower tobacco-use rates but also have the added benefit of saving the state millions of dollars in health care costs.” Based on data from the National Vital Statistics System from 2010 to 2014, the lung cancer mortality rate in the 12 ...
Kentucky is the Cancer Capital of the Country with More Than 1/3 of the Commonwealth’s Cancer Deaths Tied to Tobacco Use
... annual Day at the Capitol. This year, the event brought together cancer patients, survivors and their families from across the state with health advocates from the Coalition for a Smoke-Free Tomorrow. As part of the rally, advocates carried and displayed photos of their loved ones who ... and Kentucky state lead ambassador volunteer with ACS CAN. “It is no coincidence that while our state experiences more suffering, higher health costs, and more people fighting this disease, our cigarettes are among the cheapest in the nation. The good news is that we know how to win ... death. It would also save Kentucky’s Medicaid program more than $6 million over five years and over $1 billion in long-term health care costs. In addition, $266 million in new, annual, state revenue would be generated, more than enough to provide new funding for pediatric ...