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... Obama's Fiscal Year 2013 budget proposal included cuts for research funding at the National Cancer Institute, at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and for prevention programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Congress is now considering a budget resolution to ... said Chris Hansen, president, ACS CAN, the advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society. Any funding cuts to the National Institutes of Health will jeopardize the innovative research at local cancer centers that has resulted in the dramatic progress we have seen during the past 40 ... researchers collected data from more than a million mammograms of New Hampshire women. Ultimately, the results will help identify what kind of care is best for women with breast cancer. At Dartmouth-Hitchcock Norris Cotton Cancer Center, 125 scientists hold more than $65 million in federal ...

... governor’s budget also restores the annual $12 million dollar deposit from the Master Settlement with Big Tobacco (MSA) to the state Tobacco Health Trust Fund (THTF) that had been redirected to the General Fund the last two years.   The budget also preserves existing unspent funding for ... Medicaid Funding of cessation services in Governor’s budget ·        SB 415 would ban Hookah Lounges in CT – Heard in Public Health 3/2 ·        SB 884 would ban smoking at Private Clubs – Heard in PH 2/8 ·        SB 948 would ban smoking in small ... for you to support these bills.   Action Alerts will be emailed in the coming days as these bills come up for a vote!   Affordable Care Act Implementation ·        HB 6305 establishes the SustiNet health plan (ACS Support) ·        HB 6308 establishes the CT ...

... which would have benefited from the measure 's lifesaving impact, unprecedented investment in cancer research and billion-dollar reductions in health care costs. Prop. 29 's defeat is proof that Big Tobacco will go to any lengths to protect their profits and hide the truth: that tobacco is the ... product that kills when used as directed. The industry leveraged its largesse to systematically distract the public from Prop. 29 's proven health benefits and to fixate instead on outright myths about the measure. The facts were clear. Prop 29 would have saved more than 104,000 lives, ...

... was the first Midwestern state and the first tobacco-growing state to enact such a ban.    “We know that smoke-free laws are good public health policy. The Smoke-Free Workplace Act stimulated a reduction of the adult smoking rate from 2007-2009, and continues to have positive health impacts through increased air quality and reduced emergency room visits for various pulmonary conditions associated with second-hand ... tobacco use in Ohio remains staggering. In 2014, 7,500 cancer deaths were directly attributable to tobacco use and the annual cost to our health care system is $5.64 billion, this all is preventable.” said Stephens. “Ohio lawmakers must respond to the 92 percent of voters that indicate ...