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Colorado Survivors, Patients Highlight Tobacco Prevention and Access to Care with State Lawmakers
... by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Volunteer advocates met with lawmakers and discussed supporting access to care and sustaining funding for tobacco prevention and cessation. During meetings with lawmakers, volunteers touted the 20 years of progress ... to programs to prevent teens from starting to use tobacco and help those who are addicted, quit. Funds collected from the tax also go towards health services like the Women’s Wellness Connection which provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings for women who qualify. The program ... can improve quality of life and survivorship. Colorado lawmakers passed a bill during the 2024 session to require state-regulated private health insurance to cover biomarker testing when supported by scientific and medical evidence. The bill, however, did not include Medicaid, so ...
ACS CAN Applauds Basalt Voters for Approving a $2 Cigarette Tax Increase
... the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) released the following statement: "ACS CAN applauds Basalt voters for putting the health of the community over Big Tobacco profits and passing this lifesaving tobacco tax increase. Making tobacco products significantly more ... from tobacco and help adults quit successfully. Fewer smokers means less people dying from cancer and other tobacco-related illnesses, and lower health care costs overall. "Tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death, claiming the lives of 5,100 Coloradans each year. Not to mention that ...
Avon Colorado Voters Pass Lifesaving $3 Tobacco Tax Increase
... by 40 percent. R.J. Ours, the Colorado government relations director for ACS CAN, said: "We are thrilled that Avon voters saw the overwhelming health and financial benefits of this tobacco tax for their community. Strong tobacco tax increases like this one in Avon are effective at reducing ... death and disease from tobacco, Avon will see a big fiscal reward from this tax increase. Taxpayers will also see the benefits due to lower health care costs from smoking-related illnesses. "Aspen, Basalt and now Avon have all passed significant local tobacco tax increases and other measures ...
ACS CAN Urges Yes Vote on Basalt's Tobacco Tax Increase on April Ballot
... of preventable death. Smoking-related illness in the Centennial State costs $1.89 billion a year, including more than $386 million in Medicaid care. Lost productivity caused by smoking in Colorado totals $1.27 billion annually. These amounts do not include health costs caused by exposure to secondhand smoke, smoking-caused fires, smokeless tobacco use, or cigar and pipe smoking. Revenue from the new tobacco tax would be invested back into the Basalt community to help finance local health and human services, tobacco-related health issues, and addiction and substance abuse education and mitigation. ACS CAN, the nonprofit, ...
New Report: Colorado Gets Mixed Results on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies
... their families." How Do You Measure Up? rates states in eight specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer: increased access to care through Medicaid, access to palliative care, balanced pain control policies, cigarette tax levels, smoke-free laws, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, cessation ... and implementing the policy recommendations in this report would not only save lives in Colorado, it would also save millions in long-term health care costs and in some cases even generate additional, much-needed revenue for the state." A color-coded system classifies how well a ...
New Report Shows Colorado Falling Short on Tobacco Control Efforts to Fight Cancer
... goals." How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including increased access to care through Medicaid, funding for cancer screening programs, smoke-free laws, cigarette tax levels, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation ... 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 ...