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How Does Your State Measure Up on Policies to Fight Cancer in 2015?
How does your state measure up on policies to fight and prevent cancer? Chances are not well. According to a new edition of the ACS CAN report How Do You Measure Up? released today, most state legislatures are missing opportunities to enact laws and policies that could not only ... movement toward the benchmark. Red shows where states are falling short. This year, the best any state did was receive a green rating in six of the nine priority areas, and 25 states have reached the benchmark in only three or fewer areas. Put simply, this is unacceptable. While it's ...
World No Tobacco Day: Reducing the Global Tobacco Burden
... policies that we know will help prevent kids from ever starting to smoke and help current adult smokers quit. To mark World No Tobacco Day, ACS CAN is releasing a new report, Protecting Children and Reducing the Global Tobacco Burden: Trading Tobacco Company Protection for Public Health . ... an action Congress can take right now to save lives and protect kids from tobacco around the world. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States and around the world. More than two thirds of tobacco deaths occur in low- and middle-income ... for 870,000 deaths annually in the TPP countries. Tobacco use will kill one billion by the end of this century. Tobacco use will continue to cost the world $1 trillion annually in increased health care spending and lost worker productivity. We know what works to prevent kids from ...
World No Tobacco Day: Let's Combat Illicit Trade with Strong Tobacco Control Policies
May 31 is “World No Tobacco Day” – an annual event organized by the World Health Organization to highlight the health dangers of tobacco use and tobacco control policies that help people quit. The focus of this year’s World No Tobacco Day is global collaboration to end the illicit trade of tobacco products. Research finds the illicit market for ... trade isn’t as rampant in the U.S. as it is elsewhere in the world, our country has more work to do to pass strong tobacco control laws that can also help combat illicit trade. For example, the average state cigarette tax is only $1.54 and the federal cigarette tax is a meager $1.01. ...