Fighting to raise smoking age to cut lung cancer risks
Evelyn Levesque and her father, Roger, attended Lobby Day at the State Capitol in Hartford in 2019. Both advocated for American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and the Tobacco 21 Law. (photo courtesy of Natalie Cullen Shurtleff)
Published December 22. 2020 7:46AM
Jan Tormay, Special to The Times
When 6-year-old Evelyn Levesque’s grandfather Gary Scheyd died at 58 of lung cancer in 2008, she didn’t understand what was happening.
Once she got more involved with the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network and the Tobacco 21 Law along with her father, Roger, in 2017, she said he explained, “You have a personal connection to Tobacco 21…You have a reason to want this and to support this. He told me how my grandfather started (smoking) when he was young and he was never able to quit. Inevitably, the smoking caught up to him and that was exactly why he got lung cancer and passed away.”
Over the weekend, Moderna s vaccine was authorized for emergency use by the FDA. The vaccine has been proven to be about 95% effective.
Under Operation Warp Speed and through a partnership with the CDC, 20 million doses will be delivered by the end of this month.
Governor Ned Lamont today announced that he has directed the Connecticut Department of Public Health to add Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine to the state’s ongoing vaccination program following a recommendation from the Governor’s COVID-19 Vaccine Advisory Group’s Science Subcommittee that it be authorized in the state. The co-chairs of the subcommittee expressed in a report that it has full confidence in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s approval process and has no concerns about it moving forward.
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