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There's No Time to Waste in Our Fight Against Big Tobacco
Amidst the current public health crisis of unprecedented rates of youth tobacco use, every day elected officials delay taking comprehensive action to prohibit all flavored ... announced its intention to clear the market of all flavored e-cigarettes, including mint and menthol flavors. ACS CAN and the public health community have staunchly advocated for the immediate implementation and enforcement of the proposal by launching an advertising campaign ... the U.S. to prohibit the sale of all flavored tobacco products, including menthol cigarettes. Coupled with additional requirements for health care coverage for FDA-approved cessation services, significant fines for retailers caught selling products to those underage and increased taxes on ...
Robert R. Kugler: Looking Forward to 2012
... in December, Congress passed a spending bill for Fiscal Year 2012 that included an increase for research funding at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). With more than 12 million cancer survivors alive today thanks to research breakthroughs, we can’t lose that momentum in 2012. ACS ... or more prominent cancer centers around the country. ACS CAN also continues to be actively involved in implementing provisions of the Affordable Care Act – provisions that benefit cancer patients and their families. We’ll be keeping close watch for a Supreme Court ruling on the constitutionality of the “individual mandate”, on which critical patient protections rely, and working in the states to set up both health exchanges and essential benefits plans that are adequate for cancer patients and survivors. ACS CAN will also be working hard to protect the ...
Presidential Candidates Offer Plans for Defeating Cancer
... just about every time I turn on the TV. And tomorrow night, we'll hear the candidates defend their stance on issues such as the economy and health care in their first debate. For the nearly 1.6 million people in America who will hear the words you have cancer this year, there is no ... ensure that providing increased federal funding for cancer research becomes a higher national priority? As president, how will you protect the health of cancer patients and ensure that affordable insurance coverage is available to them? As president, what would you do to reduce tobacco ...
Joining Together to Protect Access to Treatment in Medicare
... ACS CAN will release the results of a new nationwide survey showing how utilization management policies have negatively affected patient care in private insurance and what that could mean for those who receive health coverage through Medicare, should the proposed changes go into effect. Since the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released its proposed changes to Medicare Part D drug coverage in November 2018, ACS CAN has led efforts to voice ...
Angelina Jolie Op-Ed on Genetic Breast Cancer
... risk they, too, will know that they have strong options." Fortunately for women with a strong family history of breast cancer, the Affordable Care Act requires all new insurance plans to cover the costs of counseling and testing for breast cancer risk tests that can be unaffordable ... with a thoughtful blog post about the importance of high-risk individuals having these conversations with genetic specialists and knowledgeable health professionals so that they can make their own informed decisions. I invite you to read both Ms. Jolie's piece and Dr. Brawley's ...
Celebrating Five Years of Tobacco Regulation
Five years ago this week, we celebrated a landmark public health victory as the president signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act into law. After years of Big Tobacco's unfettered ... Surgeon General found that smoking still kills 480,000 Americans each year, sickens millions more and costs the nation at least $289 billion in health care bills and other economic losses each year. The FDA and the Obama Administration must take even stronger and bolder action to accelerate ...
The Next Generation of Cancer Advocates
... her experience as a skin cancer survivor to support legislation that would prohibit minors from using tanning beds. During a hearing before the Health and Human Services Committee in January, Paige urged lawmakers to protect other Nebraska youth like herself from the increased risks of skin cancer associated with indoor tanning. For the second year in a row, students from a ninth-grade health class joined our Hawaii team to support their grassroots efforts around Cancer Awareness Day in March. The students spent the day with ACS ... increased tobacco tax and tobacco control program funding. It's exciting to see teens and young adults passionately involved in the causes they care about, and especially to watch them actively support ACS CAN’s advocacy efforts and our cancer mission. Engaging advocates of all ages is a ...
Reintroducing a Critical Bill During Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
... with colorectal cancer in 2019 and approximately 51,000 will die from the disease. These statistics are alarming since, in partnership with health care providers, we have the necessary tools to both prevent colorectal cancer and/or detect it during its early, most treatable stages, and we’ve ... in the last few decades. We have an opportunity to impact these statistics and reduce colorectal cancer incidence and death with proven public health policy. ACS CAN has long advocated for the “Removing Barriers to Colorectal Cancer Screening Act,” which was reintroduced this week in ...
World No Tobacco Day: Let's Combat Illicit Trade with Strong Tobacco Control Policies
May 31 is “World No Tobacco Day” – an annual event organized by the World Health Organization to highlight the health dangers of tobacco use and tobacco control policies that help people quit. The focus of this year’s World No Tobacco Day is global ... tobacco tax increases this legislative session. However, we won’t see the benefits of tax increases in lives saved and reduced health care costs unless they are made a reality by successfully passing these laws. We’re also waiting for graphic warning labels. Congress included a ...
50 Years of Tobacco Control Drastically Reduces the Scourge of Tobacco
8 million. That's the number of lives saved due in large part to tobacco control efforts since the 1964 Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health , according to a study released in JAMA this week. We've made incredible progress since Surgeon General Luther Terry released that report 50 ... action, tobacco use will remain the most preventable cause of death in this country, killing 443,000 Americans and costing $96 billion in health care costs every year. 50 Years of Tobacco Control Drastically Reduces the Scourge of Tobacco ...