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New FDA Anti-Tobacco Education Campaign Launches on World Cancer Day

... make our voices heard as we raise awareness about the need to make the fight to defeat cancer an international priority. Continuing the success of last year's campaign , the theme of this year's World Cancer Day is once again dispelling myths and misconceptions related to cancer. Therefore, ... according to the FDA, 10 million youth ages 12-17 are open to smoking or have already experimented with it. Beginning Feb. 11, the FDA's Real Cost campaign is designed to target these 10 million at-risk youth and educate them about the dangers of tobacco use and to encourage them to be ... the most effective ways to fight back against an unscrupulous and unrelenting industry whose mission is to hook youth as early as possible. ACS CAN fought hard for the FDA's authority to regulate tobacco products, and we're pleased to see that the agency is exercising that authority for ...

2020 Idaho Legislative Wrap Up

Idaho’s 2020 legislative session has come to an end. While the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) did not have a major legislative victory during the session, there is certainly a lot of positive news that we can report.  The session ended with growing concern about COVID-19 and our daily lives have certainly changed as a result ... request.  The legislature discussed, but ultimately did not act on proposals to require counties to help fund the state’s share of the cost to expand the Medicaid program. Idaho is still awaiting feedback from the federal government on the proposal to add work and related reporting ...

A Decade After FDA Authorized to Regulate Tobacco, the Epidemic Rages On

... Drug Administration (FDA) was given the mandate from Congress to fully regulate the tobacco industry and tasked with the critical responsibility of protecting the health of our nation. And still, the FDA has not fulfilled its mission to reduce the deadly toll of tobacco use, an epidemic that ... death in our nation, and according to a U.S. Surgeon General report, more than 20 million premature deaths over the past half century can be attributed to cigarette use in the U.S. We cannot achieve our mission of ending death and suffering from cancer without significantly ... the FDA has taken deliberate action in the past 10 years to address tobacco addiction, including: Implementing several phases of “The Real Cost” prevention campaign aimed at reducing the number of youth who experiment with cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and, most recently, ...

SENATE PREPARING FOR VOTE TO RAISE TOBACCO PURCHASING AGE

... lawmakers this session, the Joint Committee on Public Health put together a bill (S 2152) dubbed "An Act to protect youth from the health risks of tobacco and nicotine addiction" that is now before the Senate Ways and Means Committee and slated to hit the Senate floor in formal session on ... described the bill's three main provisions -- a three-year increase in the age for tobacco sales, a ban on sales in pharmacies and the addition of e-cigarettes to the state's anti-smoking laws -- as "proven strategies for reducing nicotine addiction among young people." "I think we will ... is more important than being seen as a health care institution," Kearney said. "So to them, they're competing with other retailers, and if they can't have a certain product on their shelf that others can, that's a competitive disadvantage to them." Supporters of higher smoking ages say that ...

Leading Health Groups Call for Bold Action To End the Tobacco Epidemic In the United States

WASHINGTON, DC - As the United States marks the 50 th anniversary of the first Surgeon General 's Report on Smoking and Health, seven leading public health and medical organizations today called for a new national commitment to end the tobacco epidemic for good. At a press conference today, the organizations called for bold action by all levels of government to achieve three goals: Reduce smoking rates, currently at about 18 percent, to less than 10 percent within 10 years; Protect all ... years; and 3) ultimately eliminate the death and disease caused by tobacco. Over the past 50 years, we have developed proven strategies that can achieve these goals if they are fully and effectively implemented.ξ These strategies include tobacco tax increases, comprehensive smoke-free ...

Leading Health Groups Urge FDA to Finalize Rule Regulating All Tobacco Products by April 2015 and Reject Exemption for Some Cigars

... current restrictions on cigarette marketing to newly-regulated products, including cigars and electronic cigarettes, and prohibiting the use of flavorings that appeal to kids. Today is the close of the period for public comments to the FDA on its proposed rule to assert authority over ... control centers involving nicotine poisoning of children exposed to the liquid nicotine used in e-cigarettes. The FDA should revise its flawed cost-benefit analysis of the proposed rule that led the agency to vastly underestimate the likely benefits.ξ Among other flaws, the FDA slashed ... Nursing Society Partnership for Prevention Prevention Partners Society for Public Health Education Trust for America's Health The comments can be read at https://www.fightcancer.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/24-Health-Groups-Deeming-Comments.pdf ACS CAN also submitted a ...

The Family Smoking Prevention & Tobacco Control Act

What the Law Does The Tobacco Control Act gives the FDA authority to regulate: Manufacture; Marketing; and Distribution of tobacco products The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) – signed into law by President Obama in 2009 - ... that are not substantially equivalent to a product already on the market, the manufacturer must receive approval from FDA before the product can go to market. Requirements for tobacco product changes: The FDA can require changes to tobacco products, such as the removal of harmful ... Center for Tobacco Products is also funding multi-million dollar research initiatives and a youth tobacco prevention campaign called " The Real Cost ,"targeting at-risk teens. Tobacco Products Covered and the Deeming Rule At this time, only cigarettes, roll-your-own-tobacco, and smokeless ...

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