Governorâs Mansion goes blue in honor of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Source: photocenter) By WIS News 10 Staff | March 3, 2021 at 9:43 PM EST - Updated March 4 at 8:11 AM
COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - South Carolina Governorâs Mansion will be lit blue starting March 3 through March 12 in honor of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.
Gov. Henry McMaster partnered with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and the Colorectal Cancer Prevention Network at the University of South Carolina to create the special design.
South Carolina has raised funding for colorectal cancer prevention and education programs and is emphasizing the important role such services play in addressing the decrease in screenings due to the pandemic.
In Response: Tobacco tax increases work; they head off tobacco use
From the column: The impacts of a tobacco price increase diminish over time, which is why raising it must be done regularly. The last such increase (in Minnesota) came in 2013. We are overdue for another.
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The Feb. 22 column in the News Tribune about new proposals to regulate tobacco sales (“Minnesota poised to become hotbed for smuggled smokes”) contained several questionable claims, one that needs addressing right away.
The column closed by stating, “Cigarette taxes are already so high that those still smoking have a great preference for doing so.” Smokers don’t “prefer” to smoke; they are addicted. Ask any smoker how they feel about their smoking, and the vast majority will tell you they wish they’d never started.
Mar 2, 2021
Hawaii’s keiki are facing a crisis. One in three high schoolers and one in five middle schoolers currently uses e-cigarettes, erasing decades of progress in reducing tobacco use.
Hawaii’s successful tobacco prevention and cessation program is in jeopardy as lawmakers want to raid the funding. I know budgets are tight, but cutting funding for a program that’s proven to reduce tobacco use at a time when we’re focused on protecting respiratory health is the wrong move. Eliminating funding for Hawaii’s Tobacco Prevention and Control Trust Fund will cost the state lives and money down the road.
March of Dimes, MHA (Mental Health America),
National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship,
National Patient Advocate Foundation,
The AIDS Institute and The
National Multiple Sclerosis Society.
Fifteen groups representing patients, people with disabilities and health care professionals filed an amicus curiae - or friend of the court - brief today urging the
U.S. Supreme Court to protect access to health coverage as it considers the validity of work and community engagement requirements in Medicaid. The groups, which include the
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network,
American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists,
Catholic Health Association of the United States,
Hemophilia Federation of America and
JACKSON, MS | February 26, 2021
Mississippi health advocate groups are calling on the State Senate to amend House Bill 1439 to increase the cigarette tax by $1.50 per pack. Currently, the bill calls for a low $.50 per pack cigarette tax increase and 10% of wholesale price increase on other tobacco products. The bill was passed by the Mississippi House of Representatives on Tuesday.
A $1.50 per pack cigarette tax increase would decrease youth smoking by approximately 14.5%, encourage more than 19,300 current adult smokers to quit the deadly addiction and save almost 7,400 Mississippi residents from premature death due to the effects of smoking. Such an increase would also save Mississippi $584.53 million in long-term health care costs from declines in adult and youth smoking.