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... Cancer Society’s 42 nd annual Great American Smokeout today by urging the Legislature to pass a $1 tobacco tax increase in 2018. Lawmakers can help people quit tobacco successfully and protect youth from a lifetime of deadly addiction by passing strong tobacco control legislation and policies, including regular and significant tobacco tax increases.   Tobacco ... including chewing tobacco. This parity on other tobacco products will generate additional state revenue, as well as public health benefits and cost savings. In early December, the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee decides whether to move this tobacco tax bill forward in the 2018 ...

... e-cigarettes too low to reduce youth use, has moved quickly and passed through the Georgia General Assembly. The below is a statement on behalf of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Senior Government Relations Director Heather Youmans in response. “We’re extremely disappointed by the passage of SB 375 and its failure ... and school challenging creating additional problems for these young people beyond tobacco addiction. We should be following through on life and cost-saving legislation that will truly benefit Georgia families, not punish our kids especially in communities heavily targeted by Big Tobacco. ...

... voters saw through the tobacco industry’s smokescreen and delivered a historic victory for public health last night with the passage of a ballot initiative that increases the state’s tobacco tax by $2 per pack. Proposition 56 not only raises the tax on cigarettes, but also ... California. It will not only save lives and protect kids, it will save $9.22 billion in health care costs and will generate a significant amount of new revenue to support public health programs like the state’s tobacco prevention and cessation program. Research shows regular and ... they spent millions to support disingenuous ballot measures to increase the tobacco tax at levels too low to have any public health impact. ACS CAN and its partners publicly opposed the counterproductive measures that would have stonewalled future efforts to increase the price of tobacco at ...

... from Eldorado High School in Albuquerque joined the cancer advocates making tracks to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol.  The government students learned from the ACS CAN volunteers how to advocate for a good cause—cancer ... youth. American Cancer Society (Society) statistics show cancer has risen to become the #1 killer in New Mexico.  Knowing nearly 30 percent of all cancers are linked tobacco use, the Society’s advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN, urged lawmakers at its annual Cancer Awareness Day at the ... “An increase in the tobacco tax is long overdue, especially since New Mexico’s current tax creates a loophole for the growing number of ways tobacco is being marketed to young people to get them hooked,” said New Mexican Kathleen McVicker, a longtime volunteer for ACS CAN and ...