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ACS CAN President Says It’s Time to Put an End to Big Tobacco’s Lies
December 19, 2017
“Elected officials must seize the opportunity to put an end to the industry’s lies and manipulation by passing and implementing public health policies that finally eradicate the tremendous human and economic toll of tobacco use,” said American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network president Chris Hansen in an op-ed for the Los Angeles Daily News.
For decades, tobacco companies lied to the American people about the health effects of smoking. Now after years of delays by Big Tobacco, tobacco companies had to admit the truth about the dangers of cigarettes and secondhand smoke in an unprecedented ad campaign.
Read more of ACS CAN President Chris Hansen’s op-ed in the Los Angeles Daily News.
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