Updates matching "District Of Columbia"

20 years after the landmark 1998 state tobacco settlement, most states continue to shortchange tobacco prevention and cessation programs. This year, states will collect $27.3 billion from the tobacco settlement and tobacco taxes, but will spend only 2.4% of it to fight tobacco use. Check out TFK report to see

While Epidemic Rages, Opioids Remain Key Component in Treating Cancer Pain ACS CAN Director of State and Local Campaigns David Woodmansee Quoted in the Baltimore Sun. Cancer patients and survivors, said David Woodmansee, directors of state and local campaigns for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

Thank you to all of the panel speakers at the One Voice Against Cancer Hill Briefing- "On the Horizon- Opportunities and Challenges in Cancer Research". Speakers included Brittany Avin (left), ACS CAN Maryland Ambassador Lead, the Childhood Cancer Survivor, Ph.D. Candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Jason Luke

Check out this article in the Washington Informer that highlights our ACS CAN State Lead Ambassador for the District of Columbia, Brandon Huges speaking about the $2.00 tobacco tax passing. #RaiseIt4health http://washingtoninformer.com/d-c-honors-those-lost-to-smoking/

On May 29th, D.C. Council passed the $2 per pack cigarette tax! Some of the revenue will be used for smoking cessation programs and to implement raising the minimal sales age for tobacco products to 21. Thank you to to the D.C. Council for passing this important legislation. A special

On April 9, 2018 advocates from ACS CAN, American Heart Association, American Lung Association, and Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids are at the Wilson Building meeting with council members and their staff to urge their support for a $2 tax on cigarettes. #RaiseIt4health

Thank you to all of the organizations, volunteers, and advocates who attended the hearing at the DC Council to urge them to support raising the tax on cigarettes Raising the price of tobacco is one of the most effective ways to reduce smoking rates. It will help prevent youth from