Updates matching "New Jersey"

Statement from Dr. Fred Jacobs, Chief Medical Officer, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network of NY & NJ re: study on secondhand smoke exposure in multi-unit housing. “Home is supposed to be a safe place, but for 1.25 million New Jerseyans, home is where they are being

Report Says State Among the Worst for Tobacco Prevention Funding Statement from Ethan Hasbrouck, NJ Director of Advocacy, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network re: report ranking NJ 50th for tobacco control program funding. “We’ve known for a while that lack of funding for New Jersey’s tobacco prevention

Smokers across New Jersey will vow to kick the tobacco addiction during the American Cancer Society’s 37th annual Great American Smokeout. Yet, far too many residents haven’t been able to beat that addiction – and in some parts of the state, the smoking rate exceeds the national average.

Statement from Ethan Hasbrouck, NJ Director of Advocacy, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, regarding passage of revised health insurance exchange bill. “How many times in life do you get a second chance? That’s just what New Jersey has now that both the Senate and Assembly have

Statement from Ethan Hasbrouck, NJ Director of Advocacy, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, regarding new study linking indoor tanning and cancer. “Add another scientific study to the pile of evidence that indoor tanning causes cancer. The latest study in BMJ , a British medical journal,

Statement from Ethan Hasbrouck, NJ Director of Advocacy, American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network re: the number of uninsured in New Jersey. “As New Jersey’s health insurance exchange languishes in limbo, the numbers released today show that the state’s uninsured need the help an exchange will provide.

Report Ranks State Progress on Tobacco Control, Access to Care and Prevention Trenton, NJ – August 9, 2012 – New Jersey receives a mixed review for its legislative work to combat cancer, according to a new report by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS

Statement from Blair Horner, Vice President for Advocacy, American Cancer Society of NY & NJ, regarding additional funding in state budget for NJ CEED program. “For many New Jerseyans without health insurance or with inadequate health insurance, the New Jersey Cancer Education and Early Detection (NJ

Cancer Rates Higher Downstate than Upstate (Trenton, NJ) (July 25, 2012) – A first-ever report from the American Cancer Society details the toll that cancer takes on the residents of New Jersey, county by county. The Cancer Burden in New Jersey illustrates