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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 ...
More Than 100 Volunteers Will Ask Legislature to Prioritize Cancer Prevention
... in health care bills each year, but the state ranks 50 th in the nation in spending for tobacco cessation and prevention. With 63 percent of Missouri’s adults intending to quit in the next six months, woefully underfunded programs such as the Missouri Tobacco Quitline are in high ... Day at the Capitol will ask lawmakers to maintain general revenue funding for tobacco cessation in House Bill 10 through the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. Volunteers will also ask legislators to continue to support Show-Me Healthy Women. Now in its 25 th year, this state ... to Missouri’s low-income, uninsured and other medically underserved women. Nearly 90,000 women in the state qualify for this program. For ACS CAN volunteers Allison Johnson and Keith Whittemore, this day is personal: Johnson was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma at age 19 while at the ...
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 ...