Even in these uncertain times, people still hear the words âyou have cancerâ for the first time. Thatâs why I recently spent a day meeting with Sen Shane Reeves & Sen Dawn White virtually. As a cancer caregiver and advocate, I wanted our elected officials to know that preventing suffering and death from cancer is still critically important. Tobacco use is still the leading preventable cause of cancer. That is why I asked our lawmakers to increase funding for the stateâs Tobacco Use Prevention and Control Program. Properly funding these programs has been proven to reduce tobacco use rates and ultimately combat tobacco-related illness and death, which is especially important now since we are still facing skyrocketing youth tobacco use.