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... cigarettes and all other flavored products. Big Tobacco continues to use flavors to target its next generation of customers for diminished health outcomes, which leads to countless deaths as well as significant increases in healthcare costs statewide for every Oregonian. "Big Tobacco ... flavored tobacco products."  In the 2023 session, a bill supported by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and many other leading health advocacy organizations advanced before a lawmaker walk-out curtailed much of the state’s important business. Disappointingly, similar ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We stand with our volunteers, working to make cancer a top priority for policymakers in cities, ...

... continues to claim too many lives and is the leading cause of preventable death. [Raising the sales age] will not only save lives, but will cut health care costs,” said Brian Shott, the New Jersey Government Relations Director at ACS CAN. In Maine, the state legislature overcame a veto by ...

... still smoke, and 1,000 kids become regular smokers each year. Tobacco use claims 2,600 New Mexico lives and costs the state $844 million in health care bills annually. In the final hours of this year’s special session, New Mexico lawmakers broke a promise to protect future generations from ... products including e-cigarettes.  The new revenue could be used to increase prevention and education funding, which in the long-run will save health care costs and lives. An estimated 40,000 New Mexico kids alive today will die prematurely from smoking. State lawmakers can change this ...

... funding for tobacco control nearly in half. Furthermore, language was included that will remove control from local governments to protect the health of their residents. Now was not the time for our state lawmakers to do Big Tobacco’s dirty work for them.  “The American Cancer Society ... youth by vetoing language that takes away local governments' rights to pass laws stronger than the state law that are proven to promote good health and well-being.” ### About ACS CAN    The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) advocates for evidence-based public ... affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and advanced proven tobacco control measures. We stand with our volunteers, working to make cancer a top priority for policymakers in cities, ...