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New Mexico Lawmakers Examine Ways to Address State's Tobacco Burden

  SANTA FE, NM–  The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) will be presenting testimony this week at three legislative hearings in Santa Fe that could help forge a new direction in the state’s battle ... biggest opportunity to save lives and reduce health care costs continues to be implementing evidenced-based solutions which help reduce the use of tobacco products,” said Sandra Adondakis, government relations director for ACS CAN in New Mexico. “These solutions include increasing the price of tobacco products, implementing comprehensive smoke-free policies and fully funding tobacco prevention and cessation programs.  All of these ...

Public Health Groups Laud Proposed $1.50 Increase in Tobacco Tax To Protect Kids, Save Lives and Raise Needed Revenue

... on other tobacco products such as smokeless tobacco.” Health organizations including the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), American Heart Association, American Lung Association and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free strongly support the $1.50 per pack tobacco tax increase designed to keep cigarettes and a vast array of other tobacco products out of the hands of kids, while also lowering health costs from tobacco use and restoring critically important tobacco prevention and education ...

Patients and Families Take Cancer Fight to the Roundhouse

... Campaign Express  SANTA FE, N.M. – February 9, 2015 – Cancer survivors, caregivers and healthcare professionals from across the state, many of them “riding the rails” to get to the New Mexico Capitol today, had a simple request to lawmakers:  Make the cancer fight a top policy ... day-long activities that started with a visit to Governor Susanna Martinez’s office.  The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) gives people touched by cancer a way to make a difference by teaching them how to make their voices heard.  Once a year, as the legislative session gets underway, volunteer advocates head to the Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol and many of them pack a car on the New Mexico Rail Runner as they rally together in preparation for the day’s activities. Media were invited to ride along ...

$1.50 Tobacco Tax Tops Agenda at Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol

... from Eldorado High School in Albuquerque joined the cancer advocates making tracks to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Cancer Awareness Day at the Capitol.  The government students learned from the ACS CAN volunteers how to advocate for a good cause—cancer ... youth. American Cancer Society (Society) statistics show cancer has risen to become the #1 killer in New Mexico.  Knowing nearly 30 percent of all cancers are linked tobacco use, the Society’s advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN, urged lawmakers at its annual Cancer Awareness Day at the ... “An increase in the tobacco tax is long overdue, especially since New Mexico’s current tax creates a loophole for the growing number of ways tobacco is being marketed to young people to get them hooked,” said New Mexican Kathleen McVicker, a longtime volunteer for ACS CAN and ...

"Return On Investment" Rally for Tobacco Prevention Funding Held at Roundhouse

... to bring attention to the need to re-invest in tobacco prevention, education and cessation programs.  Teens and college students were some of the several dozen advocates asking the public to sign dollar bill-shaped petitions urging lawmakers to renew their commitment to funding tobacco prevention in the state of New Mexico. Lawmakers received pictures of New Mexico youth holding signs that say "I am the Return on Investment."   In the final hours of the ... tobacco products including e-cigarettes .   “Right now, 40,000 New Mexico kids alive today will die prematurely from smoking. State lawmakers can change this statistic with fully funded tobacco prevention and cessation programs and increased tobacco taxes,” said ACS CAN New Mexico ...

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