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Do you know anyone who struggled to quit tobacco? Were they able to quit before it killed them? Thankfully, my father was. It took him 40-plus years and many attempts…Sen. Mary Caferro proposed a bill this legislative session to increase the state’s cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack with a

Letter to the Editor by State Lead Ambassador Roger Levesque in the March 6th edition of the Hartford Courant. Read Full Article

As the New Mexico legislature continues to debate on how to tackle a large budget deficit, the coalition to increase the tax on tobacco products continues to grow.

Indoor tanning for kids? Might as well expose them to plutonium By: Guest Opinion March 2, 2017 , 2:27 pm After four years of hard work on the part of patients, parents, physicians, and legislators,

ACS CAN Wisconsin advocates, Nikki Payne, David Reilly, and Kari Reilly, recently met with Speaker Paul Ryan David was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma 20 years ago on his 29 th birthday. After months of chemotherapy and radiation, he was cancer free. But the treatments that saved his life also severely

For the better part of a year-and-a-half, ACS CAN volunteers and staff in Wyoming worked on passing model palliative care legislation that would create a statewide task force to assess how healthcare facilities can make palliative care more available to patients with serious illnesses—improving quality of life while saving healthcare