Oregon City Supports Statewide Ban on Flavored Tobacco Products
OREGON CITY, OR — Oregon City has taken a stand against flavored tobacco products by passing a resolution on Wednesday that calls for an end to their sale.
8 million. That's the number of lives saved due in large part to tobacco control efforts since the 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health, according to a study released in JAMA in January.
ACS CAN Texas volunteer and cancer survivor Donna Muslin recently appeared on Fox-29 TV in San Antonio to talk about the importance of this report and what ACS CAN is doing to keep up the effort - check out her appearance here!
We still have work to do to curb the tobacco epidemic that continues to cause disease and death in our country. The American Cancer Society together with its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, have been leaders in the fight against tobacco for decades. In fact, the 1964 Surgeon General's report drew heavily from findings in the American Cancer Society-funded Hammond-Horn study, the first large-scale study that examined the effect of cigarette smoking on death rates from cancer and other diseases.