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... control programs help prevent youth from starting to use tobacco products and support and promote cessation among current tobacco users.  ACS CAN recommends that states dedicate a portion of tobacco tax and other tobacco-related revenue for tobacco control.  However Connecticut is falling short, providing ZERO funding in the current ... budget.  ​​​​ The Numbers:  $2.03 Billion  - Annual health care costs directly caused by smoking   $473.2 million  - Amount of tobacco revenue and tobacco settlement funds CT receives annually   $55.9 million  -Estimated amount the tobacco industry spends on marketing ...

... - a battle that, if won, could save more than 100,000 lives, $5.1 billion in healthcare costs and protect nearly 230,000 kids from the dangers of tobacco. Proposition 29, the California Cancer Research Act, is a ballot initiative that would establish California as the largest source of ... $40 million into spreading lies about Prop. 29 because they know that tobacco taxes are an effective way to prevent kids from smoking. As ACS CAN CEO John Seffrin and Lance Armstrong stated in a recent Los Angeles Daily News op-ed , research shows that every 10 percent increase in the price of tobacco reduces youth smoking by 6.5 percent. A $1 increase in the cost of cigarettes will result in 228,000 fewer California kids becoming addicted smokers - giving them a fighting chance against cancer and ...

... the funds needed to implement the law, such as subsidies for middle-class Americans to purchase insurance in state exchanges and elimination of the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Both the budget resolution and White House plan would seek to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending.   ... expenditures by standardizing the federal match and other program changes, and it would reduce Medicare expenditures by expanding the power of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was established under the Affordable Care Act to reduce Medicare payments and services if they ... reductions without sacrificing the medical security of cancer patients and survivors and others with serious medical conditions. Read the ACS CAN talking points on entitlement reform proposals, and the April 15, 2011 ACS CAN press release on the House FY2012 Budget Resolution. Dr. Seffrin ...

... the funds needed to implement the law, such as subsidies for middle-class Americans to purchase insurance in state exchanges and elimination of the Prevention and Public Health Fund. Both the budget resolution and White House plan would seek to reduce Medicare and Medicaid spending.   ... expenditures by standardizing the federal match and other program changes, and it would reduce Medicare expenditures by expanding the power of the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which was established under the Affordable Care Act to reduce Medicare payments and services if they ... reductions without sacrificing the medical security of cancer patients and survivors and others with serious medical conditions. Read the ACS CAN talking points on entitlement reform proposals, and the April 15, 2011 ACS CAN press release on the House FY2012 Budget Resolution. Dr. Seffrin ...