Updates matching "Tobacco Control"

DATE: February 27, 2018 Increase funding for tobacco control programs to $21 million. Prohibit the sale of tobacco products to persons under the age of 21. Protect state funding for the Breast and Cervical Cancer Treatment Program. LOCATION: Lowe House Office Building 6 Bladen Street Room 142 Annapolis,

“I’m not trying to lecture the General Assembly or preach,” Johnson said. But he added, “Not spending money now costs much more money later, because of the high health related costs of tobacco related illnesses.” “It is a worthy discussion that should be held - the benefits and cost savings

Truth, yet deceit from Big Tobacco Warwick Beacon · Tuesday, December 5, 2017 To the Editor: As a volunteer with the American Cancer Society-Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) I learned at our last meeting that the tobacco industry is, finally, being forced to broadcast the harms of

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

“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

“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