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Snuff Out SB 150: Advocates Urge Lawmakers to Keep Smoke out of Montana Smoke-free Law

... 150, which would allow cigar smoking in restaurants, bars and gaming facilities that are currently smoke-free.  State polling shows that 89% of Montana voters across the political spectrum support the Clean Indoor Air Act and 77% oppose allowing cigar smoking in bars. Everyone has the right to breathe clean, smoke-free air regardless of where they live, work, or play. Nobody should have to choose between a job and long-term health, which is clearly put at greater risk with any ... for the past 20 years. The next generation deserves that as well. This bill will leave workers and patrons exposed to secondhand smoke.” ACS CAN is joined in this call by many state health advocacy organizations and its volunteer advocates who met with lawmakers individually Monday to ...

Report Finds Majority of States Falling Short on Laws and Policies that Prevent Cancer and Save Lives

WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 11, 2011 – A majority of states are falling short on legislative solutions to prevent and fight cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). In a year consumed by budget shortfalls and legislative challenges, many state legislatures missed opportunities to enact laws and policies ... Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, was released today at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting in San Antonio, TX. The report finds that 24 states have reached benchmarks on none or only one of the five ...

31 Health Groups Urge Congress to Reject Appropriations Proposals to Weaken FDA Oversight of E-Cigarettes, Cigars

... today urged the U.S. House Appropriations Committee to reject proposals that would greatly weaken Food and Drug Administration (FDA) oversight of electronic cigarettes and cigars and make it harder for the FDA to protect children and public health from these products. The health groups ... We are also concerned that under this bill 's definition of large and premium cigars some machine made cigars, including some that may cost as little as $1.00, would be exempted from FDA oversight and that some flavored cigars could qualify for an exemption.Moreover, we are ... last year 's agriculture appropriations bill. Under current law, manufacturers are required to provide information to the FDA so that the agency can assess the risks to public health of new tobacco products, which are defined as products introduced to the market after February 15, 2007. ...

Report Shows Majority of States Falling Short on Policies to Fight and Prevent Cancer in 2013

WASHINGTON, D.C. August 15, 2013 A majority of states are not measuring up on legislative solutions that prevent and fight cancer, according to a new report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). As the changing health care landscape presents new opportunities to prevent a disease that kills 1,500 people a day in this country, many ... Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, was released at the National Conference of State Legislatures annual meeting in Atlanta, GA. The annual report finds that 38 states have reached benchmarks in only three or fewer of the ...

On Fifth Anniversary of Landmark Tobacco Law, Leading Health Groups Call on FDA to Prioritize Three Actions To Accelerate Progress Against Tobacco Use

WASHINGTON, DC On the fifth anniversary of the landmark 2009 law granting the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authority over tobacco products, 10 leading public health and medical ... Administration to take three urgent and bold actions to accelerate progress. The following joint statement was issued by the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Americans for Nonsmokers ' ... greater addiction and decreased success in quitting smoking. Require large, graphic cigarette warning labels that comply with the 2009 law and can withstand legal challenges.ξ The FDA should issue a final rule that requires graphic warnings covering the top 50 percent of the front and ...

New Hampshire Lawmakers Vote Against Public Health; Reduce Tobacco Control Program Funding

... 1, 2025 – Today, New Hampshire lawmakers voted to cut funding to the state's lifesaving tobacco control program, despite the ongoing risks of tobacco addiction for New Hampshire’s kids and adults alike. The following statement can be attributed to Mike Rollo, New Hampshire director of government relations for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN): ... control program funding levels, lawmakers have acted against the interest of public health by further cutting back this lifesaving – and cost saving – public health investment.  “Today’s decision to cut funding to our state tobacco control program is an extremely costly and ...

2020 Maine Session Summary

Victory in the fight against cancer requires bold new public policies that promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expand access to quality, affordable health care. Lawmakers make many decisions that impact the lives of Mainers touched by cancer and their leadership is vital to defeating this disease. In 2020, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) worked with the Maine Legislature in support of the following priorities:        Ensuring Access to Quality Care Surprise Medical Billing ... insurance on their own or through a small employer, spreading health care costs across a larger number of individuals and providing greater cost protections for high cost claims within the pooled market. The law also requires insurers to offer a set of health insurance plans that would ...

Cancer Advocates Urge Legislature to Make Cancer Top Priority

... building today to ask lawmakers to prioritize legislation to fight cancer during the annual American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Cancer Action Day. Specifically, the group pushed to regulate e-cigarettes and improve access to oral chemotherapy medications.  Volunteers ... retailers are not. This bill would require e-cigarette retailers to be licensed and follow the same training and licensing requirements of other tobacco retailers. Classifying e-cigarettes as a tobacco product is an important step in getting a handle on the youth tobacco epidemic. ... “We want legislation that would make oral chemotherapy cancer drugs more accessible for patients to take in the comfort of their own homes and cost the same as traditional chemotherapy.” “In our state there will be an estimated 8,500 new cancer cases this year, and many cancers can be ...

Time to Raise SD Tobacco Sales Age

... smokers in South Dakota every year. That means every day tobacco finds its way to children in our state. Every day, a child starts a lifetime of deadly addiction that increases their risk for cancer, heart disease, a host of debilitating conditions and early death. It also means the age of tobacco sale currently on the books is not doing the job to keep this ... started smoking before the age of 21. At the current rate, 21,000 S.D. kids alive today will die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses. We can do better. S.D. lawmakers can help reverse these dire statistics by passing a bill to raise the state’s legal sales age for all tobacco ...

Cancer Advocates Urge Oregon Lawmakers to Finish the Job on Flavored Tobacco, Provide Access to Biomarker Testing in Line with Advances

SALEM, Ore. –– On the first day of the 2025 Oregon Legislature, advocates of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network call on lawmakers to finish the job and end the sale of menthol cigarettes and all other ... as significant increases in health care costs statewide for every Oregonian. “It’s time to end this problem once and, truly, for all,” ACS CAN Oregon Government Relations Director Kari Hampton said. “We appreciate that legislative solutions take time, but this should have been done ...

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