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New Report: Raising Smart, Healthy Kids in Every State
... children from low- and moderate-income families to be enrolled in high-quality preschool programs. It's a win-win for our nation's youth. The health benefits of the president's proposal are significant. While we have made big strides in reducing the smoking rate in this country, it is ... tax increase would save nearly 1 million lives by preventing premature deaths from smoking. It would also save $63.4 billion in long-term health care costs related to tobacco use. It saves lives and it saves money. We have a real opportunity in front of us to give children the ...
States Grossly Underfunding Tobacco Prevention Programs
... from the 1998 tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes? This is an incredible amount of money that states could be using to save lives and reduce health care costs by fighting back against our nation's tobacco epidemic, but they're not. According to an annual report ACS CAN released today with several other public health organizations, states will spend less than two percent of this settlement money on programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers ...
Our Work Is Never Over
... to protect vital cancer funding is ongoing, as are our efforts in support of strong tobacco control measures, policies that improve access to health care and improve patients' quality of life and lifesaving prevention and early detection programs. Now is the time to contact your members of ...
Minnesota Tobacco Tax to More than Double
Minnesota public health advocates celebrated a major victory today as the legislature passed a $1.60 cigarette tax increase. Governor Mark Dayton is expected to ... it takes effect on July 1, 2013, the increase will raise the current state cigarette tax from $1.23 per pack to a new total of $2.83. The public health benefit of this legislative victory is huge the increase will save more than 25,700 lives in Minnesota, keep more than 47,700 kids from ... and encourage 36,600 adult smokers to quit. Not to mention the $1.60 increase will save the state more than $1.65 billion in long-term health care savings and raise $434 million in new revenue in the first two years. The Minnesota legislature also increased the excise tax on other tobacco ...
New Report: States Woefully Underfunding Tobacco Prevention & Cessation Programs
A new report released today by ACS CAN and several public health partners the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ... on tobacco prevention and cessation programs. Put simply: states are missing a tremendous opportunity to save millions of lives and billions of health care dollars by shortchanging proven programs to prevent kids from smoking and help smokers quit. How much are they shortchanging these programs? ...
A Broken Promise to Our Children
... country? Yet, our progress in the fight against Big Tobacco is being undermined, according to a report released today by a coalition of public health groups including ACS CAN. Issued annually, the report assesses whether states have kept their promise to use funds from the landmark 1998 ... more of the tobacco dollars they receive to protect our kids from Big Tobacco and help people quit. The result will be fewer cancers and other health problems from tobacco, and lower health care costs. I invite you to read this state-by-state report and learn how your state is doing in funding the fight against Big Tobacco. A Broken ...
Major Updates to Nutrition Facts Label Announced
... has evolved significantly in the last couple of decades and new research has increased our knowledge about what nutrients are important for health. We now know that up to one-third of all cancer deaths are due to nutrition and physical activity factors, including overweight and obesity. ... strongly for these updates to the Nutrition Facts label so consumers, cancer patients and survivors could make more informed choices for their health and the health of their families. This proposal to update the Nutrition Facts label would complement other nutrition labeling strategies, including the menu and vending machine calorie labeling requirements in the Affordable Care Act (the rules for which have not been finalized) and other proposals to provide key nutrition information on the front of the pack. Major ...
Massachusetts Passes Historic Tobacco Tax Increase
... and nearly 30 percent of those deaths are directly attributable to tobacco use. This historic tobacco tax increase will have a tremendous public health benefit for the people of Massachusetts, and it sets an example for all states to consider a tobacco tax increase as a reliable means to save lives, reduce health care costs and invest in critical health programs.ξCongratulations to ACS CAN staff and volunteers in Massachusetts for their hard work in ...
ACS CAN's Most Wonderful Time of the Year: Lobby Day
... at the CDC Support legislation to improve the quality of life for cancer patients by providing patients with better access to palliative care services and coordinated care Pass a bill to increase the federal cigarette tax by 94 cents to keep millions of kids from smoking and dramatically reduce health care costs in our country ACS CAN volunteers and staff are already armed with the knowledge and the passion they need to talk to their ...
Increasing Access to Treatment Options Through Biosimilar Legislation
Access to quality care has long been one of our top priority issues. To increase access to potentially lifesaving treatments, the American Cancer Society Cancer ... Biosimilars are tested to ensure they produce the same effect as the biologic, so patients can be confident they are receiving the best care possible. In addition to offering more options for safe and effective cancer treatment, biosimilars offer potentially less costly options for ... The materials also educate cancer patients on the role that biosimilars may play in their treatment process – for example, when their health care provider might prescribe them a biosimilar product, or how, depending on state law, a pharmacist may provide an interchangeable ...