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Missouri Needs to Spend Money to Stop Smoking
... compensation for tobacco-related health care costs. Our legislators should be directing that money to programs that reduce smoking statewide. Of the millions of dollars collected in Missouri from tobacco taxes and tobacco settlement last year, less than one-tenth of 1 percent was spent on tobacco ... to tobacco. I am happy to see Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s budget will maintain funding for statewide cancer prevention programs, but more can and should be done to reduce all forms of tobacco use and save more Missouri lives. Increased funding for tobacco prevention programs would be ...
Missouri Legislative Session Ends with Mixed Record on Cancer Policy
Statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Missouri Government Relations Director Emily Kalmer JEFFERSON CITY, M o. – “As lawmakers close the 2024 legislative session, their ... additional investments for tobacco cessation and prevention. Smoking is responsible for 11,000 deaths in our state each year, including 34.4% of cancer deaths. Smoking remains the number one cause of preventable death. We know what works to stop these needless deaths. Investing in programs to prevent kids from starting to use tobacco and help ...
Report: Missouri ranks low in money spent on tobacco prevention
... use among youth. Twenty years after that settlement, the states will collect $27.3 billion in revenue this year but will spend only 2.4 percent of it — $655 million — on prevention and cessation programs, according to a report released last month by a collection of health advocacy groups. Among states that spend at least a portion of the revenue that way, Missouri ranked last, spending $48,500 — or less ... the case in Missouri, where tobacco settlement funds for years have gone into the state’s general revenue fund. That means the money generally can be appropriated for almost anything, said Rep. Cody Smith, R-Carthage, chairman of the House Budget Committee. When asked if lawmakers value ...
Cancer Survivors, Caregivers Rally at State Capitol for Improved Prevention
... to call on the General Assembly to make cancer a top legislative priority. Coaches from four state colleges joined volunteers in representation of the Coaches vs. Cancer initiative, a nationwide collaboration between the American Cancer Society and the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The visit was part of the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network’s annual Day at the Capitol, in which coaches and ... nationwide, but we still haven’t fully implemented proven ways to prevent the disease in the first place,” said Mark Runyan, a lead ACS CAN volunteer from Eldon. “More than 13,000 Missourians will still lose their lives to cancer in 2018 alone. We’re here today to ask lawmakers ...