Updates matching "Prevention and Cessation"

JEFFERSON CITY, MO. – After the pandemic impacted two years of Cancer Action Days, cancer advocates, survivors and caregivers from across the state traveled to the Capitol in Jefferson City yesterday to meet in person with their elected officials. They let their lawmakers know that they can and must

The House Preventive Health Policy Division voted in favor of advancing House File 3153, which would ensure that Medicare Assistance and MinnesotaCare enrollees have insurance coverage for individual, group and telephone counseling, as well as all FDA-approved tobacco cessation medications without cost-sharing or other barriers.

HARTFORD – Tomorrow, Gov. Lamont’s public health budget will be heard by the Appropriations Committee. His budget, which was released on February 9, fails to allocate sufficient and sustainable funds for tobacco control and prevention–programs dedicated to protecting kids from tobacco industry influence and helping current tobacco users quit

Statement from American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) Government Relations Director Andrew Schepers LANSING, MICH. – “Today, Gov. Whitmore introduced her proposed budget, which fails to increase funding for programs that could reduce cancer incidence and deaths. As we mark Cancer Prevention Awareness Month, ACS CAN

During this legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) prompts legislators to prioritize passing public policies that promote cancer prevention, improve patient quality of life, prevent youth commercial tobacco use and help adults quit tobacco, and expand equitable access to quality, affordable health care.

FRANKFORT, KY – “As the Senate starts their work on the state’s operating budget, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network implores senators to increase funding for the state’s Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program to $10 million annually. “This funding will reduce cancer diagnoses and deaths and save lives in

Governor Hochul has released her Executive Budget for the next fiscal year. ACS CAN is asking for increases in funding for the Cancer Services Program and tobacco control.

CHARLESTON, W. Va . – As lawmakers dive into the 2022 legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) urges legislators to prioritize increasing tobacco control funding and raising the state’s tobacco taxes which will ease the burden of cancer in West Virginia.

LANSING, MI –As lawmakers dive into the 2022 legislative session, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) urges legislators to prioritize improving access to cancer care and tobacco control funding, both of which will ease the burden of cancer in Michigan. “For nearly ten years, ACS CAN has