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Report Shows Progress in Fight Against Cancer, but Congress, States Must Step Up Efforts to Reduce Smoking, Lung Cancer
Date:11/26/2008

g cancer. The most successful states have implemented a comprehensive, scientifically proven strategy that includes higher tobacco taxes, smoke-free workplace laws and well-funded tobacco prevention and cessation programs. In California, the first state to implement such a comprehensive strategy, lung cancer death rates declined an average of 2.8 percent per year among men from 1996 to 2005, more than twice the decline seen in many states in the Midwest and the South, the new report shows. In contrast, lung cancer death rates among women increased from 1996 through 2005 in 13 states and decreased only in three. As the report notes, these 13 states have higher percentages of female smokers, low tobacco excise tax rates, fewer tobacco control activities and local economies that are traditionally dependent on tobacco farming and production.

Every single case of tobacco-caused cancer is ultimately preventable. There is no question that we know how to dramatically reduce smoking and the many cancers and other devastating diseases it causes. What's needed is the political leadership to more aggressively implement these solutions nationally and in every state. Recent landmark reports by the Institute of Medicine and the President's Cancer Panel have agreed on the steps that Congress and the states must take to accelerate declines in tobacco use - and eventually eliminate the death and disease it causes:

  • Congress should enact long-overdue legislation granting the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authority to regulate the manufacturing, marketing and sale of tobacco products. The U.S. House of Representatives on July 30 voted 326 to 102 to approve this legislation, and it has 60 sponsors in the Senate, including President-elect Barack Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Among other things, this legislation would crack down on tobacco marketing and sales to kids; require larger, more effective h
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