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Colorado Survivors, Patients Highlight Tobacco Prevention and Access to Care with State Lawmakers
... by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN). Volunteer advocates met with lawmakers and discussed supporting access to care and sustaining funding for tobacco prevention and cessation. During meetings with lawmakers, volunteers touted the 20 years of progress ... to programs to prevent teens from starting to use tobacco and help those who are addicted, quit. Funds collected from the tax also go towards health services like the Women’s Wellness Connection which provides free breast and cervical cancer screenings for women who qualify. The program ... can improve quality of life and survivorship. Colorado lawmakers passed a bill during the 2024 session to require state-regulated private health insurance to cover biomarker testing when supported by scientific and medical evidence. The bill, however, did not include Medicaid, so ...
Avon Colorado Voters Pass Lifesaving $3 Tobacco Tax Increase
... by 40 percent. R.J. Ours, the Colorado government relations director for ACS CAN, said: "We are thrilled that Avon voters saw the overwhelming health and financial benefits of this tobacco tax for their community. Strong tobacco tax increases like this one in Avon are effective at reducing ... death and disease from tobacco, Avon will see a big fiscal reward from this tax increase. Taxpayers will also see the benefits due to lower health care costs from smoking-related illnesses. "Aspen, Basalt and now Avon have all passed significant local tobacco tax increases and other measures ...
Colorado Cancer Advocates Call on State Lawmakers to Continue Progress in Fight Against Cancer
... lawmakers to help promote cancer prevention, early detection of cancer, and expanding access to new methods of innovative, quality, affordable health care. ACS CAN looks forward to working with Colorado’s leaders in making progress in the fight against cancer in 2025.” ACS CAN Colorado ... cancer screening and treatment program for low-income uninsured and underinsured women administered by the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment through the Women’s Wellness Connection. Funding for FY 2025-2026 is projected to be $3 million. These funds are derived ...
YOUTH TOBACCO PREVENTION FOR THE 21ST CENTURY 2.0
... Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN), the nation’s largest patient advocacy organization, in partnership with stakeholders from the local health care and tobacco control community. ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary ...
ACS CAN Lauds Governor John Hickenlooper's Veto of Senate Bill 18-179
... R.J. Ours, ACS CAN Colorado government relations director. "Senate Bill 18-179 would have reduced resources for a number of Colorado’s public health programs, including health care for children, tobacco prevention and cessation, and cancer early detection and treatment capabilities provided by the proceeds of the tobacco ...
New Report: Colorado Gets Mixed Results on Cancer-Fighting Public Policies
... their families." How Do You Measure Up? rates states in eight specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer: increased access to care through Medicaid, access to palliative care, balanced pain control policies, cigarette tax levels, smoke-free laws, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation programs, cessation ... and implementing the policy recommendations in this report would not only save lives in Colorado, it would also save millions in long-term health care costs and in some cases even generate additional, much-needed revenue for the state." A color-coded system classifies how well a ...
Denver City Council Votes to End Sale of Some Flavored Tobacco Products, Must Do More to Protect Kids from Big Tobacco
... products, flavored e-cigarettes and most other flavored tobacco products from its shelves, Denver has taken a critical first step to put public health over industry profit. However, while we’re grateful to the council for such measures, we know that any flavored product that is left on ... advocacy affiliate, ACS CAN has successfully advocated for billions of dollars in cancer research funding, expanded access to quality affordable health care, and made workplaces, including restaurants and bars, smoke-free. As we mark our 20th anniversary, we’re more determined than ever to ...
New Report Shows Colorado Falling Short on Tobacco Control Efforts to Fight Cancer
... goals." How Do You Measure Up? rates states in nine specific areas of public policy that can help fight cancer, including increased access to care through Medicaid, funding for cancer screening programs, smoke-free laws, cigarette tax levels, funding for tobacco prevention and cessation ... affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people ...