2010 Georgia Public Policy Agenda

2010 Georgia Public Policy Agenda
August 28, 2009

Tobacco Prevention Control & Cessation

-Increase State Tobacco Excise Tax by $1
-Cessation under Medicaid Program
-Strengthen Key Local Smoke-Free Ordinances
-State Implementation of New FDA Regulation of Tobacco Products

Cancer Health Care

- Increase funding for BreasTest & More, Cancer State Aid & Georgia Women’s Medicaid Program
-Protect & promote health insurance coverage that is aligned with the Society’s 4 As (Adequate, Available, Affordable & Administratively Simple)

Establish ACS Relay For Life Automobile License Plate

Georgia Updates

2010 Georgia Public Policy Agenda

Georgia Campaigns

Georgia and Tobacco: An Unhealthy Alliance

ACS CAN, the nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy affiliate of the American Cancer Society, supports evidence-based policy and legislative solutions designed to eliminate cancer as a major health problem. ACS CAN works to encourage elected officials and candidates to make cancer a top national priority. ACS CAN gives ordinary people extraordinary power to fight cancer with the training and tools they need to make their voices heard. For more information, visit www.acscan.org.

Copyright 2009 © American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc.
All content and works posted on this website are owned and copyrighted by the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network, Inc. All rights reserved.