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November 30, 2017
Rhode Island

Earlier this year, the White House budget proposal suggested a drastic cut of nearly 20 percent to cancer research funding. As a cancer patient, I believe not only that this is wrong, but that we should be increasing funding instead. I went to my doctor in February 2016 with a

November 29, 2017
National

Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced an interim final rule that would weaken nutrition standards for school meals and beverages.

November 28, 2017
Washington

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A renewed effort has just been launched to raise the smoking age in Washington from 18 years old up to 21. It would make this the third state in the country to do that, following in the footsteps of California and Hawaii. Read Full Story

November 27, 2017
National

“It is a really big watershed in terms of the industry actually coming clean for the first time ever about the health effects of smoking,” said Mary Rouvelas, senior counsel to the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, in an interview with NBC News. For decades, Big Tobacco lied

November 21, 2017
National

“Decades after they were banned from the airwaves, Big Tobacco companies return to prime-time television this weekend — but not by choice,” according to an Associated Press article. More than a decade after a lawsuit won by the American Cancer Society and other plaintiffs and after years of delays

November 20, 2017

Starting Nov. 26, the major U.S. tobacco companies must run court-ordered newspaper and television advertisements that tell the American public the truth about the deadly consequences of smoking and secondhand smoke, as well as the companies’ intentional design of cigarettes to make them more addictive.

November 16, 2017

For decades, Big Tobacco lied to the American people. They claimed that secondhand smoke is safe, that it is easy to quit smoking and that low-tar cigarettes are less harmful - despite their own internal documents stating otherwise. Finally, after 17 years of lawsuits and negotiations, Big Tobacco is being

November 16, 2017

Starting on November 24, Big Tobacco will begin running court-ordered advertisements telling the truth about the dangers of cigarettes and secondhand smoke. This massive advertising effort is the result of a major court victory by the American Cancer Society and other plaintiffs that found Big Tobacco guilty of making untruthful

November 16, 2017
Wyoming

November 16 is the 42nd annual American Cancer Society Great American Smokeout. Wyoming cancer advocates mark the day by urging the Legislature to pass a $1 tobacco tax increase in 2018.