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Legislature Presses on with $0 Funding for Youth Tobacco Prevention Despite Budget Surplus
RALEIGH, NC – June 29, 2021 – Last week, Senate lawmakers passed their final version of the budget – dedicating zero funding for the state’s tobacco prevention programs amid skyrocketing youth tobacco use. “Our kids are worth more than zero,” said Derwin Montgomery, ACS CAN Government Relations Director in North Carolina. “With our state budget in surplus and an estimated $140 million collected from the tobacco ... offering no support to prevent our kids from starting to use tobacco is shocking and downright dangerous. Failing to include such funding will cost our state more financially in the long-term and result in thousands of preventable deaths.” When well-funded, evidence-based tobacco ...
2019 North Carolina Legislative Briefing Breakfast: Addressing the Youth Vaping Epidemic
The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, will hold its Legislative Briefing Breakfast focusing on addressing the youth vaping ... and tobacco cessation programs. We invite all state legislators for an informative discussion about the youth vaping epidemic, the tremendous cost of tobacco use on our healthcare system, and how implementing evidence-based strategies protect our children from harm and provide for a ...
New Report: Failure by Southeastern State Legislators on Tobacco Policies Leads to Higher Tobacco Use, Greater Cancer Burden
... policies to reduce and prevent tobacco use, according to a report released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). The result of this inaction has led to some of the highest tobacco use rates in the country and contributed to cancer death rates that are significantly above ... death and exposure to secondhand smoke. (In North Carolina, smoking-related health care costs total $3.81 billion annually, which includes the cost to Medicaid of $931 million.) The 12 Southeastern states are projected to collect nearly $5.3 billion in tobacco revenues in 2017 yet spend ...
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network Priority for 2021 Legislative Session
RALEIGH, NC – January 13, 2020 – As lawmakers dive into the first day of the 2021 legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) looks ahead to what public health initiatives our lawmakers can accomplish in the new year. All individuals deserve to live full, healthy ... cessation benefit that covers individual, group, and telephone counseling and all FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications without cost-sharing or other barriers to accessing care. Cancer patients, survivors and advocates look forward to meeting virtually with lawmakers over ...
North Carolina Falling Short on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies in 2018
... it comes to implementing policies and passing legislation to prevent and reduce suffering and death from cancer. According to the latest edition of How Do You Measure Up?: A Progress Report on State Legislative Activity to Reduce Cancer Incidence and Mortality, North Carolina measured up to policy recommendations in just two of the nine issue areas. The report was released today by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). “This 16 th edition of the report shows that we must do more to reduce suffering and death from cancer. We have the power to make a ...
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