How You Can Help Hold Big Tobacco Accountable
Nearly 20 years ago, a U.S. Federal District judge found that the major cigarette manufacturers violated civil racketeering laws for deliberately defrauding the public.
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Celebrating the Surgeon General's Tobacco Report - 50th Anniversary
February 20, 2014
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 in January.
ACS CAN Texas volunteer and cancer survivor Donna Muslin recently appeared on Fox-29 TV in San Antonio to talk about the importance of this report and what ACS CAN is doing to keep up the effort - check out her appearance here!
We still have work to do to curb the tobacco epidemic that continues to cause disease and death in our country. The American Cancer Society together with its advocacy affiliate, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, have been leaders in the fight against tobacco for decades. In fact, the 1964 Surgeon General's report drew heavily from findings in the American Cancer Society-funded Hammond-Horn study, the first large-scale study that examined the effect of cigarette smoking on death rates from cancer and other diseases.
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