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Health Coalition: Defunding Oklahoma’s Tobacco Control Programs Will Prove Costly

OKLAHOMA CITY – A group of leading health organizations Thursday released the following statement in strong opposition to a resolution that would allow the Legislature to ... and ill-advised resolution to shift focus and funding away from tobacco prevention and cessation – a move that will incur a large human cost. Oklahoma voters wisely established these lifesaving programs in 2000 to help prevent cancer and cardiovascular disease, the state’s leading ... for 60 percent of deaths in Oklahoma. “It’s important to remember that there is only one tobacco settlement agreement. The states can’t sue a second time. Oklahoma needs to get this right and spend tobacco-related settlement revenues on programs that break the cycle of ...

Advocates to Gov. Ferguson: Cancer Can’t Be Acceptable Outcome of State Budget-cutting Process

... Wash. -– American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network advocates call on Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson to refuse to allow the long-term health of Washington residents to become collateral damage to the state’s current budget crisis. The state’s cancer prevention programs are one of the ... constituents as possible have access to screening for three of the state’s most prevalent forms of cancer. The following statement can be attributed to Audrey Miller Garcia, Government Relations Director for ACS CAN Washington: “The potential for budget cuts to do serious ... and cessation or the Breast, Cervical, and Colon Screening Program will damage Washington families well beyond their bank accounts. The cost will be the health of our children and lives of our loved ones. This is not political posturing. It’s based in data and is not a possibility ...

CDC Study Finds Smoking Leads to Higher-Than-Expected Health Care Costs

WASHINGTON, D.C. – December 10, 2014 – The American Journal of Preventive Medicine published two studies today from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Office on Smoking and Health showing ... care costs attributable to cigarette smoking are higher than previously reported (nearly $170 billion per year), as well as results on the cost-effectiveness of the first phase of the “Tips from Former Smokers” media campaign. A statement from the American Cancer Society Cancer ... tobacco products, increased tobacco taxes, smoke-free public spaces and workplaces and sustained investment in prevention and cessation.” ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions ...

2017 End of Session Report

Volunteers from across the state attended our 2017 ACS CAN Day at the Capitol on January 30th. As a result, we saw easy passage of the Idaho Med-Synchronization Rule , which allows Idahoans to ... Fund for the American Cancer Society to provide public outreach about cancer screening services in rural parts of our state at low to no cost. ACS CAN supported a coalition that landed a key hearing on a proposal to increase the age of sale for tobacco products from 18 to 21, which ...

ACS CAN Reacts to House Budget Changes

"We are disappointed that the House did not take the opportunity to implement proven strategies to reduce the terrible toll of tobacco use in Ohio," said Jeff Stephens, director of government relations in Ohio for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. "Increasing the cigarette tax by $1 per pack would raise a ... for reducing tobacco use would positively impact the enormous health care costs associated with treating tobacco-related disease."   ACS CAN Reacts to House Budget Changes ...

ACS CAN Applauds NYC Comprehensive Tobacco Control Package

Statement by Michele Bonan, New York City Advocacy Director for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) New York, NY - March 18, 2013 - "Mayor Bloomberg, Commissioner Farley, and the New York City Council deserve credit for once again taking on ... Big Tobacco.   "In 2013, it is estimated that more than 11,000 New Yorkers will die from cancers caused by smoking, making it the leading cause of cancer deaths.  Each day more than 3,500 kids under the age of 18 try their first cigarette, and more than 900 become established smokers. ... that one of the most powerful tools to help adults quit and keeps kids from starting -a high tobacco tax-remains impactful.  In sum, high cost tobacco means fewer users, and fewer users means less illness and premature death from diseases like cancer. "These proposals, in addition to ...

World No Tobacco Day. ACS CAN: The State Legislature Can do Better to Protect West Virginians from Big Tobacco

... is a statement from Juliana Frederick Curry, West Virginia government relations director for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN).  “The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network would like to take today, World No Tobacco Day, to remind the state legislature that they need to do better when it comes to reducing the toll of tobacco on West Virginians.  “Tobacco is a big problem for our state, both in the human toll and the financial cost. Tobacco products are addictive and deadly. In West Virginia, nearly 25 percent of adults still smoke, and more than 1,000 kids under 18 ...

600 Advocates Meet with Lawmakers at Annual ACS CAN Lobby Day

... 600 cancer patients, survivors, caretakers, volunteers and staff from across the country convened recently in Washington, DC for the annual ACS CAN Leadership Summit and Lobby Day. Constituents from all 50 states (plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and Guam) and nearly every congressional district met with their lawmakers, urging Congress to support lifesaving policies ... asked their representatives to co-sponsor bipartisan legislation that would make palliative care more available to patients who need it. Remove cost barriers to colorectal cancer screenings . While the Affordable Care Act waives co-pays for screenings for colorectal cancer, Medicare ...

ACS CAN Reacts to Governor's Budget

...                                                                          ACS CAN Reacts to Hochul Budget Asks for Increased Cancer Screenings ALBANY, NY – New York State Governor Kathy Hochul has released her proposed ... Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Senior New York Government Relations Director Michael Davoli, released the following statement: “On behalf of the 1.6 million cancer survivors in New York, I applaud Gov. Hochul’s efforts on her new budget. I ask that she follows up this package with ... offers a critically important service to men and women who lack health insurance – screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer at no cost to the patient. Detected early, these cancers are more effectively treated. Failing to have these cancers detected early can lead to deadly ...

Twenty Years of Broken Promises in the Fight Against Tobacco

... over time as compensation for the health costs related to the suffering, death and disease caused by their dangerous products. Each year, ACS CAN and public health partners track state spending of the settlement revenue, as well as other tobacco revenue states bring in from taxes, in the Broken Promises to Our Children report, and we continually find that states only spend a small fraction of their tobacco-generated revenue as intended -- on efforts to prevent youth tobacco use and to help people who smoke quit.    ACS CAN, Campaign ...

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