Unlike the House version of this bill, senators did not exempt from FDA oversight many cigars, including some cheap and flavored cigars often popular with youth. The Committee’s action preserves FDA authority to regulate all tobacco products as granted by Congress
AUGUSTA - The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) applauds the Maine legislature for their overwhelming bipartisan support of LD1170. The legislation raises the age of sale for tobacco products, including electronic smoking devices, from 18 to 21.
Any attempt to repeal the ACA without replacing it with equal or better coverage will leave our health care system in shambles. If the existing law is abolished, 32 million Americans could lose their insurance coverage in the next decade. This approach is completely unacceptable for the patients we represent.
The Maryland Save Your Skin Coalition applauds Prince George’s County Council for passage earlier today of a local ordinance prohibiting minors from using indoor tanning devices in the county.
Sacramento, CA – The voices of cancer patients, survivors and their loved ones are making a difference at the Capitol as evidenced by the critically-important cancer-fighting policies that passed the Legislature in 2016.
This bill would leave patients and those with pre-existing conditions paying more for less coverage and would substantially erode the progress our nation has been trying to make in providing affordable, adequate and meaningful coverage to all Americans.
The U.S. House Appropriations Committee approved a bill today that would greatly weaken the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) oversight of tobacco products. The provision was included in the FY 2018 Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Related Agencies appropriations bill.
The House advanced legislation to reauthorize and expand the FDA's user fee programs that maintain a strong partnership between the FDA and industry, with the goal of bringing pharmaceutical drugs and devices to the market, and making them accessible to patients, as expeditiously as possible.
Martinez, CA – Scores of residents and cancer advocates testified today in favor of an amendment to the Contra Costa County tobacco-control ordinance that will end the sale of flavored tobacco products in unincorporated areas of the county within 1,000 feet of youth-sensitive pla
Today, the Oregon House took steps to save lives by protecting kids from a lifetime of addiction when it passed Senate Bill 754 to raise Oregon’s sales age for all tobacco products, including electronic cigarettes, to 21.